News 2013

10.10.2013: Hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived together for 2,000 years in Central Europe

Stone Age parallel societies existed up to 5,000 years ago / Forager genes also found in today's Europeans ...

08.10.2013: Nobel Prize in Physics: Recognition for the prediction of the Higgs boson

Scientists at Mainz University involved in the successful search for the Higgs boson ...

07.10.2013: Carl Zeiss Foundation funds endowed professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Enhanced cooperation with SCHOTT AG in the field of application-oriented research ...

04.10.2013: EU project looking at Finno-Ugric minority languages completed

European Language Vitality Barometer shows that nine Finno-Ugric languages are under threat ...

25.09.2013: Researchers from Dresden and Mainz present a new multifunctional topological insulator material with combined superconductivity

New material combines different, at first view contradicting properties with a high potential for future quantum electronics and computation ...

23.09.2013: Domain walls as new information storage medium

Visualization of domain wall motion: Material defects do not impede wall motion at high velocities / Publication of findings in Nature Communications ...

03.09.2013: Researchers propose a new system for quantum simulation

Scientific paper on ultracold atoms and fermionic ions published in Physical Review Letters ...

30.08.2013: New superheavy elements can be uniquely identified

International research collaboration at GSI including researchers of Mainz University uses element 115 to highlight a way for taking new superheavy elements' fingerprints ...

28.08.2013: Petra Beli joins the Institute of Molecular Biology and obtains a prestigious Emmy Noether award to study the cellular response to DNA damage

EUR 1.5 million award from the German Research Foundation to establish a research group in Mainz ...

28.08.2013: EU projects involving researchers of Mainz University reveal the spread of farming and the origin of lactase persistence in the Neolithic Age

Nature reports on the findings of the LeCHE and BEAN anthropological research projects ...

15.08.2013: Quantum teleportation: Transfer of flying quantum bits at the touch of a button

Hybrid technology makes possible highly reliable transmission of photonic qubits ...

12.08.2013: Physicists of Mainz University investigate the formation of defects during phase transitions in crystals of ions

Recent research findings are relevant to a model of matter structure formation tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang ...

09.08.2013: Ancient glass beads provide evidence of industry and trade routes at the time of the Romans

Scientists at Mainz University for the first time prove techniques used to produce ancient glazed beads / Investigations conducted using neutron activation analysis with the aid of the TRIGA research reactor ...

31.07.2013: Scientists at Mainz University decode mechanisms of cell orientation in the brain

Transmembrane protein NG2 controls orientation of cell migration toward the wound / Publication in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience ...

31.07.2013: Chemists develop innovative nanosensors for multiple proteins

Test strips bearing gold nanoparticles as sensor elements can detect numerous proteins simultaneously / New concept with potential applications in medicine, environmental technology, and foodstuff analysis ...

29.07.2013: Scientists from the universities of Mainz and Antananarivo describe the Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur as a new primate species native of Madagascar