Press Releases
The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2024
25.11.2024: Mainz University ranks first in physics among German universities in the DFG Funding Atlas 2024
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz achieves fourth place in natural sciences / Significant growth in national funding in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences
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25.11.2024: 21-ton magnet installed in new MESA particle accelerator
Superconducting core component for international P2 experiment installed in underground hall at a depth of ten meters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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19.09.2024: Pieter Gunnink receives research fellowship from the Humboldt foundation
Funding supports Mainz physicist to carry out a new research project in the field of spintronics
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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
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12.09.2024: JGU hosts annual meeting of the ATLAS Collaborative Research Center
Around 120 physicists are coming together on the campus of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from September 10 to 13 to analyze data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC/CERN
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05.08.2024: Cold antimatter for quantum state-resolved precision measurements
Experimental breakthrough of the BASE international research collaboration / Johannes Gutenberg University involved
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11.07.2024: Quadrupolar nuclei measured for the first time by zero-field NMR
Researchers at Mainz University and the University of California, Berkeley, achieve a breakthrough in zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, paving the way towards benchmarking quantum chemistry calculations
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11.07.2024: First measurement of a nuclear recoil signal from solar neutrinos with XENONnT
XENONnT collaboration announced first measurement of low-energy nuclear recoils from neutrinos produced in nuclear reactions inside the sun, particularly those involving the element boron
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11.06.2024: Computer scientists of Mainz University and the University of Chile cooperate to establish a reliable detection of programming errors
Chile and Germany provide national research funding for the development of a new technique known as Gradual Abstract Interpretation ensuring the error-free and safe application of programming languages
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06.06.2024: Innovative, self-sufficient, eco-friendly: EU sponsors new microelectronics project
Pathfinder program of the European Innovation Council supports the development of highly innovative, exploratory new technologies at the very earliest stage of their development likely to have major potential impact
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31.05.2024: New CRC 1660: Hadrons and Nuclei as Discovery Tools
Collaborative Research Centre at JGU's Institute for Nuclear Physics seeks new physical phenomena through a better understanding of strong interaction processes
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16.04.2024: Understanding the universe: SHiP experiment promises new insights into the world of elementary particles
Researchers from six German scientific institutions contribute significantly to the new experiment at the CERN research center for particle physics with detector developments
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11.04.2024: ERC Advanced Grant for Maarten Boonekamp in collaboration with Jens Erler und Frank Maas
New physics in parity violation: From the Thomson limit to the energy frontier / Funding worth EUR 3.2 million
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13.03.2024: Good prospects for altermagnets in spin-based electronics
Altermagnetic CrSb with promising characteristics for electronic applications
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01.03.2024: EU funding for outstanding early-career researcher Pieter Gunnink
Individual Fellowship provided through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions program supports new research project in the field of spintronics by Mainz physicist
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27.02.2024: Merons realized in synthetic antiferromagnets
Researchers in Germany and Japan have been able for the first time to identify collective topological spin structures called merons in layered synthetic antiferromagnets
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15.02.2024: Altermagnetism experimentally demonstrated
Researchers at Mainz University have been able to visualize the third class of magnetism, called altermagnetism, in action
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05.02.2024: The limits of weather forecasting: How far into the future can we look?
Research study confirms intrinsic limits of weather forecasting and identifies reasons / Forecasts for midlatitude weather could be significantly improved
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02.02.2024: A physical qubit with built-in error correction
Researchers at the universities of Mainz, Olomouc, and Tokyo succeeded in generating a logical qubit from a single light pulse that has the inherent capacity to correct errors
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30.01.2024: Festive opening of the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences
New interdisciplinary research platform to bring together excellent researchers from the life sciences and the natural sciences
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