News 2020

Physicist of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz honored for groundbreaking work in the precision spectroscopy of atoms and molecules   ...

Online ceremony for this year’s presentation of the JGU award of excellence in teaching worth EUR 10,000   ...

3,500-year-old clay tablet cuneiform texts of the Hittites will be made fully accessible online / Funding by the German Research Foundation   ...

Patrick Windpassinger and his team demonstrate how light stored in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms can be transported by means of an optical conveyor belt   ...

Mendelevium-244 was first produced in 2018 / Experiments indicate an unusual short-lived fission activity   ...

Solid-state physicist is honored for his experimental work in the fields of nanomagnetism and spintronics   ...

Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing pigeons   ...

Measurements in thorium-229 take a step towards the direct laser excitation of an atomic nucleus in this unique isotope   ...

Joint project of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Texas State University receives EUR 73,000 in national funding  ...

New form of insect-pathogenic bacterium extends the options for sustainable crop protection and biological pest control in agriculture   ...

New form of insect-pathogenic bacterium extends the options for sustainable crop protection and biological pest control in agriculture ...

New approaches to promote the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for analysis in chemistry, biology, and medicine   ...

Mainz University involved in a study in around 4,600 participants from 30 nations on the association between colors and emotions  ...

Cooperation within the TopDyn Top-level Research Area paves the way for the investigation of two-dimensional phases and phase transitions   ...

Scientists identify one possible reason for the many scandals in the world of finance: Employees in this industry are often less trustworthy and less socially aware   ...

Carl Zeiss Foundation grants some EUR 2 million in funding to the ECHELON project at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz   ...

Database combines the rich collections of various European institutions, offering improved access to research material and sources on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as on ancient and non-European religions   ...

A novel platform aims to answer fundamental questions in nuclear and particle physics   ...

Palaeogeneticists at Mainz University have found evidence of lactase persistence in only a small proportion of human bones from the Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense valley   ...

Scientists from Heidelberg, Mainz and Darmstadt publish results in Nature   ...