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
11.07.2024: Quadrupolar nuclei measured for the first time by zero-field NMR
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Altermagnetic CrSb with promising characteristics for electronic applications
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01.03.2024: EU funding for outstanding early-career researcher Pieter Gunnink
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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New interdisciplinary research platform to bring together excellent researchers from the life sciences and the natural sciences
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