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.
2023
11.09.2023: Magnetic whirls pave the way for energy-efficient computing

Researchers of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Konstanz as well as of Tohoku University in Japan have been able to increase the diffusion of magnetic whirls, so called skyrmions, by a factor of ten
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07.09.2023: On the track of elusive neutrinos

Project 8 experiment reaches important milestone to measure neutrino mass
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05.09.2023: Made in Germany, big in Japan: Pixel Vertex detector installed in Belle II experiment

Concettina Sfienti's research group at the JGU Institute of Nuclear Physics involved in design and construction
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30.08.2023: How to write in water?

Researchers at Mainz University, TU Darmstadt, and Wuhan University overcome fundamental obstacles for writing and drawing lines, letters, and complex patterns within the bulk of a liquid
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11.08.2023: Muon g-2 collaboration doubles precision with latest measurement

Uncharted territory explored in search of new physics
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04.08.2023: Up, up, and away with PHILEAS

HALO research aircraft to analyze the transport of greenhouses gases and aerosols over the Pacific
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20.07.2023: Marvin Schnubel receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

New theoretical model to help in the search for new physics
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01.06.2023: Thorium-229: A new approach to investigation opens up a wide range of possibilities

International research team reveals in Physical Review Research how the first nuclear transition can be excited with lasers in the visible wavelength range
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25.05.2023: Material design by means of defect engineering: German Research Foundation approves new Collaborative Research Center at Mainz University

DFG to fund new CRC investigating options for manipulating defects in soft matter
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25.05.2023: German Research Foundation approves three funding applications for Collaborative Research Centers at Mainz University

DFG funding boosts top-level research areas of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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24.04.2023: New electron scattering experiment designed for the excitation of the helium nucleus raises fundamental questions about our current understanding of nuclear forces

Theoretical predictions and new experimental data on 4He, measured with great accuracy, diverge significantly from each other
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03.04.2023: New international Master’s degree program will provide comprehensive knowledge and skills in the fields of soft matter and soft materials

Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt jointly offer new research-focused Soft Matter and Materials degree course program with increasing practical components starting in the coming winter semester
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31.03.2023: Second ERC Advanced Grant for Matthias Neubert

Novel theoretical predictions to advance the search for new physics at the LHC / Funding worth EUR 2.5 million
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23.03.2023: Improved ATLAS result weighs in on W boson

An improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics
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23.03.2023: First WIMP search results from the XENONnT experiment

PhD student Daniel Wenz from Mainz University presents data at a seminar at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy
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22.03.2023: First neutrinos made by particle collider detected

Discovery promises to help physicists understand the nature of the universe's most abundant particle
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21.03.2023: New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions

Mainz team of scientists finds a way to evaluate highly complex Feynman integrals
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16.03.2023: Rhineland-Palatinate’s Minister of Science Clemens Hoch inaugurates new high-performance computer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

A milestone of national collaboration
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07.02.2023: First Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow

Chemistry professor at New York University receives new research prize worth EUR 100,000 / Future collaboration with the team of Dmitry Budker at Mainz University
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01.02.2023: Amplified search for new forces

Special setup uses polarized rubidium and xenon as transmitter and receiver system for exotic fields
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23.01.2023: A new model for dark matter

Phase transition in the early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter
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2022
06.12.2022: Long-range information transport in antiferromagnets

Antiferromagnets are suitable for transporting spin waves over long distances
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15.11.2022: Energy-efficient computing with tiny magnetic vortices

Unconventional computing combines Brownian computing with reservoir computing / First prototype developed
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15.11.2022: Using quantum sensor technology to improve brain tumor operations

Quantum technology on its way into society: Joint project DiaQNOS to develop quantum sensors to improve brain tumor surgery
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04.11.2022: IceCube neutrinos give us first glimpse into the inner depths of an active galaxy

Mainz-based scientists have been members of the IceCube consortium since 1999
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