News 2018

19.10.2018: How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll

Water-soluble protein helps to understand the photosynthetic apparatus   ...

18.10.2018: How beetle larvae thrive on carrion

Burying beetles rely on their gut symbionts in order to transform decaying carcasses into nutritious nurseries for their young   ...

18.10.2018: Teacher Training Quality Campaign: Mainz University receives EUR 2.5 million to fund its Teaching & Learning Research Labs

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is investing in its Teaching & Learning Research Labs with the aim of promoting a Mainz Model of Cooperative Teacher Training ...

16.10.2018: Extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan already 3,500 years ago

Gilthead sea bream were caught in the Bardawil lagoon on a large scale and transported as dried fish to the area in which Israel is located today   ...

10.10.2018: Dynamics of individual proteins

New measurement method allows researchers to precisely follow the movement of individual molecules over long periods of time   ...

09.10.2018: New Israel Professorship in Communication Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Yossi David from Jerusalem will be the first Israel Professor at Mainz University   ...

27.09.2018: Mainz University successful in Germany’s Excellence Strategy program: PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence approved

International Committee of Experts vote to award PRISMA+ EUR 64 million of funding for cutting-edge research in Mainz   ...

17.09.2018: New devices based on rust could reduce excess heat in computers

Physicists explore long-distance information transmission in antiferromagnetic iron oxide  ...

14.09.2018: Magnetization in small components can now be filmed in the laboratory

Technique for imaging magnetization dynamics developed in a joint project   ...

11.09.2018: Study confirms bank bashing during the financial crisis and shows ways banks can avoid this

Certain banks were particularly criticized in newspaper articles, while more familiar banks were able to avoid bank bashing   ...

10.09.2018: A study of ants provides information on the evolution of social insects

One gene in particular determines whether an ant becomes queen or worker   ...

10.09.2018: Sugar molecules bind harmful CFCs and protect the ozone layer

Scientists from Mainz and Aschaffenburg developed a method to protect the ozone layer from the damaging effects of the chlorofluorocarbon Freon 11   ...

30.08.2018: Gutenberg Teaching Award 2018 goes to Geoffrey Brennan

Mainz University honors Australian economist for the development of innovative study programs and his long-standing commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching   ...

21.08.2018: Air pollution leads to cardiovascular diseases

International team of experts from Mainz, London and Cleveland reports on mechanisms that cause vascular damage   ...

20.08.2018: Energy-efficient spin current can be controlled by magnetic field and temperature

SCMR effect simplifies the design of fundamental spintronic components  ...

17.08.2018: Magnetic antiparticles offer new horizons for information technologies

Computer simulations reveal new behavior of antiskyrmions in gradually increased electric currents   ...

06.08.2018: Distrust of power influences choice of medical procedures

Complementary and alternative medicine benefit from the credence given to conspiracy theories and the associated skepticism towards existing power structures   ...

25.07.2018: A human endogenous tumor blocker discovered

Scientists of the Mainz University Medical Center have discovered novel properties of a human protein which acts as an inhibitor of virus infections and cancer   ...

24.07.2018: Graduate School of Excellence MAINZ awards visiting professorships 2018

MAINZ Visiting Professorships 2018 for Anna I. Krylov from the University of Southern California, USA, and Klaas-Jan Tielrooij from the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain   ...

24.07.2018: Detecting damage in non-magnetic steel with the help of magnetism

Researchers at JGU and the University of Kaiserslautern publish results of study of materials testing   ...