News 2026

New generation of quantum sensors offers improved paths towards medical diagnostics ...

Antiprotons stored in a mobile transport container for over a month for the first time / Research group at Mainz University contributes to a paper published in Nature ...

Mainz University is a major contributor to the latest report by the World Meteorological Organization ...

Analyses of the carbonate deposits in the aqueduct featuring the famous Pont du Gard shed light on the water supply of the ancient city of Nîmes ...

Vapour gap slows heat flow from hot metal into ice ...

New study by researchers at the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt examines the impact of inappropriate emotional displays by political leaders ...

Professor of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Director of the Botanical Garden at JGU receives EUR 1.5 million in EU funding ...

Recent study shows that rescue behavior in ants is linked to differences in gene activity in the nervous system ...

Prototypes of transdermal drug patches in the laboratory (photo/©: Sophia Engel)

Funding of EUR 1.1 million from ForTra gGmbH for Research Transfer enables further development of a drug patch developed at JGU that is designed to stimulate the regeneration of damaged myelin sheaths ...

The experiment, developed with strong contribution from a research group from Mainz, detected signals at the lowest neutrino energy ever achieved ...

Interdisciplinary study involving researchers from Mainz University connects drought across the world’s wheat-growing regions with global markets ...

Renowned Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London honors Uwe Wolfrum for his scientific research on Usher syndrome ...

Review led by the Mainz University Medical Center compares the effects of cigarettes, waterpipes, heated tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and nicotine pouches ...

Humanized model could significantly improve preclinical research on drugs for celiac disease ...

Evolutionary biologist Sinead English and chemist Emanuele Penocchio will take up professorships in Mainz ...

Researchers have developed a method to reconstruct past seawater temperatures from rhodoliths ...

Researchers at JGU have visualized the interaction of magnetic vortices and shown that antiferromagnetic skyrmions move in line with an applied current ...

First high-precision measurements of the fermium-255 nucleus validate modern nuclear models and advance the search for superheavy elements ...

The photo shows the miniaturized laser system, developed with major contributions from researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (photo/©: Sören Boles)

Mainz physicists pave the way for fundamental space experiments with miniaturized laser technology ...

JGU researcher Jairo Sinova and former Mainz-based scientist Libor Šmejkal receive the 2026 EPS Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society together with Tomas Jungwirth  ...