News 2025

18.06.2025: New Bachelor’s degree program provides qualification in multilingualism in transcultural contexts

Interdisciplinary program "Languages, Cultures, Communication" will start in the 2025/2026 winter semester at the Germersheim campus of Mainz University ...

17.06.2025: New method to study halo nuclei confirmed experimentally

Nuclear physicists have succeeded for the first time in experimentally proving the ratio method for studying halo nuclei ...

16.06.2025: Satisfaction in romantic relationships significantly fluctuates over several days and even within a 24-hour period

Willingness to recognize and respond to the partner's needs is a key factor determining relationship satisfaction ...

16.06.2025: Thinking in sync: How brain rhythms support intelligence

Well-tuned brain activity patterns are linked to cognitive ability ...

12.06.2025: Archaeology in the age of Big Data

AI-powered software AutArch automatically extracts data from archaeological drawings and photographs, ensuring that findings preserved in libraries contribute to the ongoing digital revolution in archaeology ...

12.06.2025: Researchers at Mainz University discover a previously unknown form of molecular motion

Guest molecules slice through droplets of DNA polymers in the form of a frontal wave / Basis for a better understanding of biological processes ...

06.06.2025: EU funding for fundamental research in particle physics in Mainz

Around EUR 180,000 for participation of the PRISMA⁺ Cluster of Excellence in the tSPECT and Mu3e experiments and the international NEMESIS and BEYOND consortia ...

03.06.2025: Muon g-2 collaboration announces most precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Third and final result is in perfect agreement with first two results of the experiment ...

30.05.2025: European University Alliance FORTHEM signs joint Palermo Declaration in defence of academic freedom

Declaration of the FORTHEM universities reaffirms shared responsibility to safeguard the autonomy and integrity of higher education and research across Europe and beyond ...

26.05.2025: TEACHING SCOTLAND in Rheinland-Pfalz: New project to facilitate the internationalisation of teacher training and continuing education

JGU Scotland HUB promotes the visibility of Scotland's cultural and literary richness in English lessons in Rheinland-Pfalz ...

23.05.2025: Charge radius of Helium-3 measured with unprecedented precision

Research findings from the PRISMA⁺ Cluster of Excellence and the Paul Scherrer Institute published in Science ...

22.05.2025: Mainz University successful in the German Excellence Strategy: approval of a Cluster of Excellence in the field of particle physics

Excellence Commission votes in favor of PRISMA⁺⁺ / Funding of up to EUR 50 million for top-level research in Mainz ...

22.05.2025: Green light for Europe’s first ion-trap-chip pilot line

Milestone for the stabilization and strengthening of quantum technology fabrication, bolstering Europe's technological sovereignty ...

12.05.2025: Age of Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years

World's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons from Schöningen, Germany, are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed ...

12.05.2025: Energy from the depths of the Earth: Collaborative research project studies temperature-induced change of rocks in geothermal reservoirs

Geothermal energy as a major driver in the energy revolution / German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy provides funding for research on small-scale processes in rocks for deep geothermal reservoirs ...

30.04.2025: New method to produce an extremely heavy hydrogen isotope at the Mainz Microtron accelerator MAMI

Production and measurement of the extremely neutron-rich hydrogen isotope ⁶H achieved for the first time in an electron scattering experiment / Result shows stronger than expected interaction between neutrons within the nucleus ...

29.04.2025: Mainz University and Futury extend their collaboration to the FORTHEM Alliance of European universities

Joint promotion of entrepreneurship and sustainability in pilot projects ...

25.04.2025: New Priority Program funded by the German Research Foundation aims to make practical use of unconventional magnetism in IT devices

Jairo Sinova of Mainz University to coordinate a new Priority Program for fundamental and applied research into information technology based on altermagnetism ...

17.04.2025: Eukaryotic cell emerged as evolutionary algorithmic phase transition

Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer proteins ...

15.04.2025: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz receives further funding for participation in the Mu3e experiment

Scientists from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence are involved in a major international research project searching for "new physics" ...