News 2023

21.03.2023: New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Team of scientists at Mainz University finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals ...

16.03.2023: Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Science Clemens Hoch inaugurates new high-performance computer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

A milestone of national collaboration ...

02.03.2023: Sustainable process for the production of vanillin from lignin makes further progress

Kraft lignin successfully degraded using a "green" oxidizer ...

28.02.2023: Social media provide space for digital cosmopolitanism

Digital cosmopolitans share similar values and are guided by similar motivations and perspectives on society ...

13.02.2023: Interuniversity exchange in the FORTHEM Alliance: Universities of Mainz and Jyväskylä address innovative best practices in learning and teaching

High-profile delegation of the Education Council of the University of Jyväskylä familiarizes with JGU's promotion of innovative learning and teaching and gives new impulses in the field of university development ...

08.02.2023: Echoes of ancient curse tablets identified in the Book of Revelation

Descriptions and phrases used in the Revelation of John are similar in terminology to those appearing on curse tablets produced in antiquity and the associated sorcery rituals ...

07.02.2023: First Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow

Professor Dr. Alexej Jerschow (photo/©: private)

Chemistry professor at New York University receives new research prize worth EUR 100,000 / Future collaboration with the team of Dmitry Budker at Mainz University ...

01.02.2023: Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food

Analysis of finds from the Neumark-Nord site near Halle provide first indisputable proof of active hunting of elephants by early humans and change our perception of Neanderthal lifeways ...

23.01.2023: A new model for dark matter

Phase transition in the early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter ...

17.01.2023: EU promotes science-policy dialog at regional and local levels

Rhine-Main Universities selected for pilot project ...

11.01.2023: Mainz University contributes to recent discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece

The excavations undertaken in the autumn of 2022 revealed parts of the foundations of a structure that was 9.4 meters wide and had carefully positioned walls with a thickness of 0.8 meters. (photo/©: Dr. Birgitta Eder / Athens Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute)

Natural Hazard Research and Geoarchaeology team of JGU is investigating coastal developments in Western Greece over the last 11,600 years ...

09.01.2023: New Bachelor’s degree program in Translation with strong career orientation

Academic training in translation and interpreting available for 12 languages takes into account current trends and developments in the translation industry ...