Press Releases

The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

13.11.2023: How marine bristle worms use a special protein to distinguish between sunlight and moonlight

Researchers at the universities in Mainz, Cologne, and Oldenburg gain important insights into a cryptochrome protein involved in synchronization of marine organisms' inner lunar calendar with moon phases ...

08.11.2023: German Research Foundation renews funding for Research Training Group "Gene Regulation in Evolution" at Mainz University

Research Training Group "Gene Regulation in Evolution" of JGU and the Institute of Molecular Biology focuses on the role of gene regulation in evolution ...

03.11.2023: Establishing FIT FORTHEM as the R&I pillar of the FORTHEM Alliance

Joint research and innovation strategies of FORTHEM match the ambition of its educational and social dimensions / Final FIT FORTHEM project meeting and conference in Riga, Latvia ...

02.11.2023: Exercise therapy based on smart data to improve patients' quality of life

Establishing a digital assistance system based on artificial intelligence to support patients / Sports Medicine research group of Mainz University involved in two projects coordinated by the Mainz University Medical Center ...

31.10.2023: Is the jet stream changing?

Researchers at Mainz University are investigating the jet stream to assess how its decadal variations could affect the occurrence of weather extremes in Europe ...

16.10.2023: PHILEAS campaign successfully completed

HALO research aircraft has provided valuable contributions to research into the effects on the climate of the Asian Summer Monsoon and the wildfires in Canada ...

12.10.2023: Second report on the status of global water resources published

Robert Reinecke of Mainz University contributed scientific modeling and expertise to the 2022 report / Joint research within the Rhine-Main Universities Alliance ...

11.10.2023: Powerful magnets for MAGIX

Core components for the upcoming MESA experiment MAGIX have arrived in Mainz ...

06.10.2023: Calculation of the proton radius significantly improved

Theoretical physicists at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence present new comprehensive lattice calculations ...

05.10.2023: How male mosquitoes compensate for having only one X chromosome

Research findings may contribute to the development of new ways to prevent the spread of malaria ...

04.10.2023: New Emmy Noether junior research group focuses on couple relationships

Janina Bühler joins the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation / Junior research group will examine the fundamental dynamics of relationship events and personality change in various age groups ...

28.09.2023: Defense against the enemy within

Scientists discover a new enzyme that helps cells fight genomic parasites ...

11.09.2023: Magnetic whirls pave the way for energy-efficient computing

Researchers of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Konstanz as well as of Tohoku University in Japan have been able to increase the diffusion of magnetic whirls, so called skyrmions, by a factor of ten ...

07.09.2023: On the track of elusive neutrinos

Project 8 experiment reaches important milestone to measure neutrino mass ...

05.09.2023: Made in Germany, big in Japan: Pixel Vertex detector installed in Belle II experiment

Concettina Sfienti's research group at the JGU Institute of Nuclear Physics involved in design and construction ...

04.09.2023: Low-cost molybdenum complex paves the way for sustainable photochemistry

Scientists in Mainz and Kaiserslautern use molybdenum for photocatalysis and photon upconversion ...

30.08.2023: How to write in water?

Researchers at Mainz University, TU Darmstadt, and Wuhan University overcome fundamental obstacles for writing and drawing lines, letters, and complex patterns within the bulk of a liquid ...

29.08.2023: Enhanced chemical weathering: A solution to the climate crisis?

Could blending of crushed rock with arable soil lower global temperatures? / Researchers of Mainz University study global warming events from 40 and 56 million years ago to find answers ...

28.08.2023: Producing carboxylic acids employing an environmentally friendly technique

Researchers at Mainz University and Evonik have developed an innovative method to cleave and oxidize double- and triple-bonds in hydrocarbons ...

22.08.2023: Bronze Age family systems deciphered: Mainz palaeogeneticists analyse a 3,800-year-old extended family

32 individuals from a burial site in the southern Ural region show close kinship relations – only the women came from other areas ...