Press Releases

Lectures for the winter semester 2024/25 start at the University of Würzburg on 14 October. At the annual press conference at the start of the semester, President Paul Pauli provided information on current topics from the university.

Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behaviour is also disturbed outside the cone of light.

Plants can extract even the smallest traces of the important nutrient potassium from the soil. A team led by Würzburg biophysicist Rainer Hedrich describes how they achieve this in ‘Nature Communications’.

Today, 7 October 2024, marks the anniversary of the shocking day of Hamas' attack on Israel. This date is a profound turning point for Jewish life around the world.

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. Researchers from Würzburg and Tübingen are investigating the positive and negative consequences this could have.

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team at the University of Würzburg has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response.

The study of metabolism in living plants poses challenges for science. A research team from the University of Würzburg and IPK Leibniz Institute has now developed a technique that changes this in some areas.

Professor Hermann Einsele is the world's leading expert in the field of immunotherapies for haematological cancers. He has now been elected as a new member of the Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea.

About 250 scientists from 14 countries will explore the latest findings from pioneering global research at the International Conference on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter CT.QMAT24 in Dresden from September 23 to 27.

Together with Egyptian conservators a team of the University of Würzburg has discovered traces of gold leaf, remnants of the colourful paintings and ancient graffiti in the temple of Edfu.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat have developed a method to model a central theory of quantum gravity in the laboratory. Their goal: to decipher previously unexplained phenomena in the quantum world.

At a meeting with representatives from the University and University Hospital of Würzburg, Bavaria's Minister of Health, Judith Gerlach, announced that the "Beste Landpartie Allgemeinmedizin" programme will be continued until 2028.

Reinforcement for the Max Planck Research Group of Systems Immunology in Würzburg: ERC Starting Grant winner Dr Jakob Zimmermann is launching his team here.

Exploring a valley and caves on Mars, searching for life: These are the goals of the German research initiative VaMEx. The Professorship for Space Technology at the University of Würzburg is involved.

Physicists from Würzburg present a nanometre-sized light antenna with electrically modulated surface properties – a breakthrough that could pave the way for faster computer chips.