News 2025

12.03.2025: Temperature during development influences connectivity between neurons and behavior in fruit flies

Researchers find more synapses and postsynaptic partners in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster correlating to lower environmental temperature during pupal development ...

11.03.2025: Self-optimizing catalysts facilitate water-splitting for the green production of hydrogen

Researchers at Mainz University have developed cost-effective and efficient water-splitting catalysts to be used in the eco-friendly production of hydrogen / Catalyst performance surprisingly increases over time ...

10.03.2025: Anna Balazs wins the 2025 Gutenberg Research Award

Most prestigious research award of Mainz University for materials scientist from the University of Pittsburgh ...

24.02.2025: Ablation of HDAC8 accelerates the regeneration of neurons and the recovery of the sensory function

Histone deacetylase 8 converts sensory Schwann cells into their repair phenotype following injuries to the peripheral nervous system ...

11.02.2025: New joint project to investigate quantum repeaters designed to provide for secure quantum communication networks of the future

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will fund the new partnership project with EUR 20 million for three years / Subproject at Mainz University involves both theoretical modeling and experimental realization ...

07.02.2025: Promoting innovation together: Rhine-Main Universities establish Startup Academy

Digital platform to support startup teams / Extended startup consultation through partially digitalized offers and synergy effects ...

06.02.2025: Toward sustainable computing: Energy-efficient memory innovation

SOT-MRAM memory technology could replace cache memory in computer architecture in the future ...

30.01.2025: A spintronic view of the effect of chiral molecules

Researchers at Mainz University verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using spintronic analytical techniques ...

30.01.2025: Magnetic whirl simulation in real time

Collaboration at Mainz University enables the simulation of skyrmion dynamics on experimentally relevant time scales ...

27.01.2025: Science lists the discovery of altermagnetism as scientific breakthrough in physics in 2024

International recognition for Mainz-based research on altermagnetism, a new concept in physics ...

21.01.2025: New insights for climate research: Synchronization of data on the eruption of the Laacher See volcano

Researchers from Heidelberg and Mainz precisely date devastating volcanic eruption / Central European Late Glacial climate change in the Younger Dryas was not a consequence of the Laacher See eruption ...

20.01.2025: Reliable analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins

Researchers of Mainz University and EMBL Hamburg present a new approach to determine the form of disordered proteins by using two different methods simultaneously in a single sample ...

15.01.2025: Experiments at GSI/FAIR reveal the shoreline of the island of stability of superheavy elements

Researchers produce shortest-lived superheavy nucleus rutherfordium-252 and measure its subsequent decay ...

13.01.2025: Livia Ludhova receives the Order of Ľudovít-Štúr for exceptional contributions in the field of science

High honor from the Slovak Republic for JGU physicist and member of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence ...

10.01.2025: Universities and research institutions leave social network X

United for diversity, freedom and science ...

08.01.2025: Herbivore or carnivore: A new toolbox for the study of extinct reptiles

Calcium and strontium isotopes in bones and teeth of present-day reptiles provide reference data for the reconstruction of feeding habits of fossil species ...