Press Releases

With the selection and decoration of further excellence scholars and the creation and deepening of contacts to important cooperation partners the collaboration of the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the University of Würzburg in Germany has been extended.

Researchers from Bielefeld, Kaiserslautern and Würzburg have developed a novel high-tech microscope: It magnifies objects a million times and shows movements with a retardation of one million billion times. Reason enough for top magazine "Science" to report on the invention.

The thinnest wire in the world, made from pure gold, is being examined by physicists from the universities of Würzburg and Kassel. Its exceptional electrical conductivity is causing quite a stir: the electrons do not move freely through the wire, but like cars in stop-and-go traffic.