News 2024

20.11.2024: Second funding period for Research Training Group 2516 on structure formation in soft matter

German Research Foundation will continue its funding of the Research Training Group on soft matter for an additional four and a half years / Collaboration of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the University of Stuttgart ...

18.11.2024: How to make learning visible: John Hattie of the University of Melbourne is honored with the Gutenberg Teaching Award

One of the world's most influential educational researchers receives most richly endowed teaching award of Mainz University ...

15.11.2024: Fermium studied at GSI/FAIR and Mainz University: Researchers investigate nuclear properties of element 100 with laser light

Increase of the nuclear charge radius with neutrons added to the nucleus ...

13.11.2024: New model system for the development of potential active substances used in condensate modifying drugs

Researchers at the universities in Mainz and Leiden have developed a simple model system that can be used to break down fibrils – the cause of numerous disorders including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease – into their constituent single units or liquid droplets ...

12.11.2024: Stones and structures throughout Germany dating to the Roman period are being documented in a long-term research project

A catalog of Roman stone architecture, comprising 25,000 individual stones and 5,000 structures, to be made publicly available in a digital edition ...

07.11.2024: Historians at Mainz University in Germany and at the North-West University in South Africa strive to intensify their cooperation

Exchange of knowledge and ideas in research and teaching in the field of Historical Cultural Studies ...

05.11.2024: Experiments at GSI/FAIR succeed in determining properties of moscovium and nihonium

Moscovium is the heaviest element ever chemically studied ...

05.11.2024: European Research Council funding for outstanding joint project in quantum physics

University of Tübingen coordinates Synergy Grant research with universities of Mainz and Stockholm to realize novel quantum systems ...

05.11.2024: Nearly EUR 10 million for joint project in particle and gravitational wave physics

Universities of Bonn and Mainz successful with other partners in the European Research Council's Synergy Grants program ...

04.11.2024: Cobalt-copper tandem converts carbon dioxide to ethanol

Positioning cobalt and copper in close proximity on an electrode facilitates selective conversion of the greenhouse gas CO2 to ethanol / Prime example of sustainable chemical research ...

31.10.2024: How fruit flies achieve accurate visual behavior despite changing light conditions

Researchers identify neuronal networks and mechanisms that show how contrasts can be rapidly and reliably perceived even when light levels vary ...

29.10.2024: New approach paves the way for harvesting and storing solar energy efficiently

Researchers of the universities of Mainz and Siegen have developed novel molecular systems for storing solar energy ...

17.10.2024: The expansion of turbid drops in water

It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers at the universities of Mainz and Düsseldorf have now managed to do so for the first time ...

08.10.2024: Pierre Capel elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Major award for theoretical physicist of Mainz University and member of the PRISMA⁺ Cluster of Excellence ...

07.10.2024: WMO report on global water resources: Conditions in 2023 were either too dry or too wet

Third State of Global Water Resources report published / Unparalleled low water levels in the river basins of the Mississippi and the Amazon ...

26.09.2024: Soil and water pollution: an invisible threat to cardiovascular health

International research team warns of strong links between soil and water pollution and cardiovascular disease ...

18.09.2024: Sea surface temperature record in the southwestern Pacific: Coral colony from Fiji reveals warmest temperatures in over 600 years

International study uses data obtained from the analysis of the honeycomb coral Diploastrea heliopora to reconstruct sea surface temperatures of the Fijian archipelago ...

18.09.2024: Scientists find new epigenetic switch

5-formylcytosine activates genes in the embryonic development of vertebrates ...

16.09.2024: Energy-saving computing with magnetic whirls

Brownian reservoir computing allows to detect human hand gestures on the basis of diffusion and displacement of skyrmions ...

12.09.2024: Mainz University hosts annual meeting of the ATLAS Collaborative Research Center

Around 120 physicists meet at Mainz University to analyze data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN ...