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- Sustainable and efficient production of ammonia and formic acid: Research team led by Dandan Gao at #MainzUniversity has developed a three-component catalyst for pulsed electrolysis 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/sustainable-a…
- Particle physicist of #MainzUniversity honored for innovative detector technologies: Stefan Schoppmann from the PRISMA Detector Laboratory receives ICFA Early Career Instrumentation Award 👉 prisma.uni-mainz.de/en/2026/02/06… #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA #ParticlePhysics #neutrinos #physics
- JGU researchers uncover novel connections during fruit fly aging: Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/jgu-researche… #biology #neurobiology #drosophila #fruitflies
- Climate-friendly generation of #formate and #hydrogen from the waste product #glycerol: An #electrolysis technique developed at #UniMainz could make an important contribution to the electrification of the chemical industry 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/climate-frien… #SustainableChemistry #SusInnoScience
- Digital media breaks can improve well-being: New study finds short-term mood benefits from intentional digital disconnection – while showing that external pressure to unplug can backfire 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/digital-media… #DigitalDisconnection #DigitalDetox #SocialMedia #offline
- From text generation in academic settings to the ethical challenges of using #ArtificialIntelligence in the #publishing industry: Professor Christoph Bläsi takes a comprehensive look at #AI in #BookStudies – and far beyond 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/even-with-ai-… #BookIndustry #JGUMagazine
- Hygienic conditions in Pompeii’s early baths were poor: Limescale deposits in wells, pipes, and bathing facilities provide information about Pompeii's ancient water supply 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/hygienic-cond… #WaterManagement #Pompeii #geoarchaeology #carbonate #geosciences #geoscience
- ERC Consolidator Grants for four researchers of #MainzUniversity: Millions in EU funding for a pharmacologist, two physicists, and a cultural anthropologist at JGU👉 press.uni-mainz.de/erc-consolida… #ERCCoG #ERCGrants
- New international research shows how vision-impaired people with age-related #MacularDegeneration use visual and auditory cues to judge the arrival time of approaching vehicles 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/vision-impair… #AMD #HumanFactors #VirtualReality #psychology #simulation #traffic
- Breakthrough on the path to optical #NuclearClocks: laser-based excitation of Thorium-229 in non-transparent material / Researchers from Los Angeles, Munich, and Mainz open new avenues for nucleus-based #QuantumTechnologies 👉 www.phmi.uni-mainz.de/en/2025/12/13… #Physics
- Soft Matter+Materials – new, English-taught RMU-master by #MainzUniversity + tuda.bsky.social – unites physics+chemistry: ♻️ recyclable plastic alternatives 🔬 self-organization in biological systems 💊 improved drug delivery+biomaterials rheinmainunis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WPB...
- Long-standing puzzle in electron scattering deepens with new measurement: New result with the A1 spectrometers at the MAMI accelerator reveals unexpected behaviour in heavy nuclei and opens a path toward precision tests at the future MESA facility 👉 sohub.io/6rjv
- With the new trilateral Master's program "Particle Accelerator Science," the #RhineMainUniversities are pooling their expertise in accelerator science, which is unique in Europe 👉 sohub.io/3cw1
- Video abstract summarizing Professor Kai Arzheimer's research on "Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes" 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpgH... 👇
- Islamophobia driven by nativism, not religion: New study shows that anti-Muslim prejudice in Western Europe is rooted in nativist and authoritarian attitudes, not Christian belief 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/islamophobia-driven…
- Islamophobia driven by nativism, not religion: New study shows that anti-Muslim prejudice in Western Europe is rooted in nativist and authoritarian attitudes, not Christian belief 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/islamophobia-driven…
- Global collaboration in a world of global challenges: Universidad del Norte and #MainzUniversity celebrate 50 years of partnership / Active exchange and cooperation in research and teaching, internationalization and transfer, partly funded by the #DAAD 👉 sohub.io/pryw
- #JUNOexperiment delivers first #physics results two months after completion / Researchers from #MainzUniversity played a key part in the data analysis 👉 prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-rele… #neutrinos
- Researchers of #MainzUniversity and the Mainz University Medical Center are among Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" / Acknowledgment for researchers with significant and broad influence in their field of expertise 👉 clarivate.com/highly-cited-resear… #research #science
- Archaeologist Catherine Teitz explores how Roman architecture and everyday life along #HadriansWall evolved over the centuries – and how old excavation records can still yield new insights ... Read more in our #JGUMagazine at 👉 magazine.uni-mainz.de/layers-of-rome/ #archaeology #history
- #AI language models show bias against regional German #dialects: New study examines how #ArtificialIntelligence responds to dialect speech 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/ai-language-models-… #LLMs #ComputationalLinguistics #LargeLanguageModels
- Long-lived contrails usually form in natural ice clouds: Research team identifies common environmental conditions for the formation of #contrails 👉 blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb08-pmc/long-lived… #climate
- Extract #fertilizer from air and water: Pulsed #electrolysis opens a path toward sustainable production of nitrogen compounds such as ammonia and urea 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/extract-fertilizer-… #SustainableChemistry #SusInnoScience #nitrogen #agriculture #ClimateChange
- 🤝 Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate sign administrative agreement to further promote unbureaucratic cooperation between the #RhineMainUniversities 👉 rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/hesse-und-r…
- 🎓 The #RhineMainUniversities wish all students at the universities of Frankfurt, Mainz, and Darmstadt a wonderful start to the new academic year! Welcome to the RMU Alliance! 🎥 youtu.be/UVdL6ouCENQ?si=9bGV…
- 🔎 130,000 years of #ClimateHistory in 2,700 meters of core samples – that's the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA) built by geoscientist Prof. Frank Sirocko ... More in our #JGUMagazine at 👉 magazine.uni-mainz.de/a-life-passion-for-…
- Combined results of rival #neutrino experiments NOvA and T2K add to the understanding of #physics and the #universe 👉 prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-rele… #ParticlePhysics #neutrinos #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA
- Exotic roto-crystals: Researchers outline comprehensive theory to predict new properties of transverse interaction systems 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/exotic-roto-crystals/ #physics
- How do #volcanoes work? What causes the vibrations known as #tremor that occur when #magma or gases move upward? Researchers of #MainzUniversity have located such tremor signals at the Oldoinyo Lengai #volcano in Tanzania 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/understandin... #VolcanoSeismology #seismology
- Third dimension of #DataStorage: Three-dimensional magnetic vortices in synthetic #antiferromagnets move differently than magnetic vortices in two dimensions 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/third-dimension-of-… #spintronics #skyrmions #QuantumComputing #physics
- TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d... #DFG #Geography #Archaeology
- Zoom fatigue is a thing of the past: Recent study undertaken by #UniMainz has revealed that online meetings are not more exhausting than face-to-face meetings 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/zoom-fatigue... #ZoomFatigue #OnlineMeetings #psychology
- Economics as a school subject leads to more #entrepreneurship: Recent study of #ifoInstitute and #MainzUniversity shows connection between economics classes in schools and entrepreneurial activity in adulthood 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/economics-as...
- Possible breakthrough in the development of effective #biomaterials for internat. research team led by Shikha Dhiman: Receptor speed in membranes, not binding strength, is crucial to the binding of modell cell membranes to biomaterials 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/possible-bre... #chemistry #biotechnology
- WMO report on global water resources: 2024 was characterized by both extreme drought and intense rainfall / Robert Reinecke major contributor to the report of the World Meteorological Organization 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/wmo-report-o... #water #WaterResources #WorldWaterReport #WMO #meteorology
- #RhineMainUniversities sign new cooperation agreement: For its 10th anniversary, RMU sends strong signal for its future with new cooperation agreement 👉 www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/rhin... @rheinmainunis.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social #UniMainz
- Researchers of #MainzUniversity are involved in the HALO-South mission over the Southern Ocean near New Zealand 👇 Read more at 👉 www.dlr.de/en/latest/ne...
- ✈️ HALO-South Takes Flight! Our #HALO research aircraft is heading down south!🧭 Starting this September, HALO will fly over the Southern Ocean – one of the cloudiest and cleanest regions on Earth. A rare look at unpolluted skies! #HALOSouth #AtmosphericResearch #CleanAir
- Common metal, unusual power: New manganese(I) complex breaks lifetime record for excited states / Combination of a #manganese salt and a ligand paves the way for future large-scale applications of #photochemistry 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/common-metal... #SustainableChemistry #SusInnoScience
- JUNO completed liquid filling and begins taking data: New type of detector enables deeper understanding of the universe 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/pre... #neutrinos #ParticlePhysics #NeutrinoDetector #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA #JUNOexperiment #JUNOdetector
- Indirect effects drive evolution: Researchers of #MainzUniversity, @eawag.bsky.social & @unibas.ch present first direct evidence that species that never interact can profoundly influence each other's #evolution 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/indirect-eff... #EvolutionaryBiology #biology
- Researchers at #MainzUniversity and #HelmholtzInstituteMainz have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered previously unknown atomic transitions in samarium, a rare earth element 👉 www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/pre... #spectroscopy #physics
- #QuantumChromodynamics: Computer simulations describe particle properties with unprecedented precision 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/computer-sim... #physics #ParticlePhysics #LatticeQCD #supercomputers #StrongInteraction #quarks #ClusterOfExcellencePRISMA
- Tiny projections on the surface of human cells can determine whether we stay healthy or develop a genetic disorder. Cell biologist Helen May-Simera is an expert on the hair-like structures called #cilia 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/the-big-impa... #CellBiology #MolecularBiology #BardetBiedlSyndrome
- Heroes, victims – and rarely collaborators: International study based on an online survey with 5,474 participants from eight European countries reveals how people across Europe reinterpret their nation's role during the Nazi era 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/heroes-victi... #psychology #SocialPsychology
- #Dinosaur teeth as time capsules of #climate data: New method to reconstruct carbon dioxide concentrations and global primary production from fossilized tooth enamel 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/dinosaur-tee... #ClimateResearch #paleontology #TyrannosaurusRex #dinosaurs #palaeontology #IsotopeGeology
- First real-time observation of two-dimensional melting process: Researchers at #MainzUniversity unveil new insights into magnetic vortex structures 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/first-real-t... #skyrmions #MagneticField #DataStorage #physics #TopDyn
- #JGUinternational: International German Language School at #MainzUniversity welcomes 60 students from 20 countries, 5 of them from the #FORTHEMAlliance / German courses for language levels A1-C1 plus German history, literature, and culture More information at 👉 summer.uni-mainz.de #SummerSchool
- How #ants actively protect themselves against dehydration: Researchers at #MainzUniversity and Université #ParisCité have for the first time investigated the physical properties of the wax layer surrounding the bodies of #insects 👉️ press.uni-mainz.de/how-ants-act... #biology #dehydration
- Neanderthals ran "fat factories" 125,000 years ago: Groundbreaking discovery in Germany reveals large-scale fat processing by Neanderthals 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/neanderthals...
- The #WaterManagement of ancient #Arles: Using #carbonate fragments, researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have deciphered the complex history of the Arles #aqueduct system 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/the-water-ma... #RomanAqueduct #Roman #ancient #geoarchaeology #geosciences #Barbegal #geoscience
- Olena Pchelintseva values the quiet, peaceful sky over Mainz. "After living with constant air raid sirens, you come to appreciate that kind of silence." The linguist is currently at #MainzUniversity through a fellowship from the Philipp Schwartz Initiative 👉 www.magazine.uni-mainz.de/research-in-...
