News 2023

13.06.2023: FORTHEM Alliance of nine European universities outlines the network’s overarching strategy and goals for the next four years

First FORTHEM Presidency Meeting at the University of Jyväskylä ...

05.06.2023: Electrical synapses in the neural network of insects found to have unexpected role in controlling flight power

Researchers of Mainz University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin revealed previously unknown function of electrical synapses, thus deciphering the neural circuit used to regulate insect wingbeat frequency ...

26.05.2023: Effective as a collective: Researchers investigate the swarming behavior of microrobots

Research study reveals alternative route to realize programmable active matter ...

25.05.2023: German Research Foundation approves three funding applications for Collaborative Research Centers at Mainz University

DFG funding boosts top-level research areas of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

24.05.2023: Improved prospects for developing a nuclear clock

Radiative decay of the nuclear isomer of thorium-229 observed for the first time / Observation paves the way for optical control of this atomic nucleus ...

22.05.2023: Hanna Kokko receives Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Theoretical evolutionary biologist at Mainz University receives Germany’s highest endowed research prize ...

17.05.2023: New DFG-funded Research Unit CORE investigates students' critical use of online information

Critical Online Reasoning in Higher Education (CORE) research group will explore the online information use and the informational landscape students use for learning in medicine, physics, economics, and the social sciences ...

04.05.2023: Discovery of unconventional Hall effect in an altermagnet

Electrons can move without dissipation along a certain direction in altermagnets without a magnetic moment and noncollinearity ...

27.04.2023: How wiggly spaghetti guard the genome

Dynamic network of proteins in the pores of the nuclear envelope blocks dangerous invaders ...

26.04.2023: The reasons why insect numbers are decreasing

A researcher from Mainz University has published a special issue of Biology Letters on the causes and consequences of the worldwide decline in insect biomass as well as potential countermeasures ...

25.04.2023: Relatives discovered: Membrane proteins of cyanobacteria and higher organisms are structurally highly similar

SynDLP could be a bacterial ancestor of eukaryotic membrane proteins ...

19.04.2023: Plate tectonic processes in the Pacific and Atlantic during the Cretaceous period have shaped the Caribbean region to this day

Computer models simulate plate tectonic processes since the beginning of the Cretaceous period around 140 million years ago and provides an explanation for the special features of the Caribbean region ...

17.04.2023: Baruch Shomron is the new holder of the Israel Professorship at the Department of Communication at Mainz University

Building bridges of academic exchange between Mainz and Israeli universities ...

11.04.2023: Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras

Males of the yellow crazy ant have two genomes each in separate cell clusters ...

03.04.2023: New international Master’s degree program will provide comprehensive knowledge and skills in the fields of soft matter and soft materials

Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt jointly offer new research-focused Soft Matter and Materials degree course program with increasing practical components starting in the coming winter semester ...

03.04.2023: Paola Arlotta receives 2023 Gutenberg Research Award

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to bestow its most prestigious research prize on Harvard stem cell biologist ...

30.03.2023: Second ERC Advanced Grant for Matthias Neubert

Novel theoretical predictions to advance the search for new physics at the LHC / Funding worth EUR 2.5 million ...

23.03.2023: Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

Improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics ...

23.03.2023: First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment

PhD student Daniel Wenz from Mainz University presents data at a seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy ...

22.03.2023: First neutrinos made by particle collider detected

Discovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe's most abundant particle ...