Goethe University Frankfurt, officially known as Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, is a prestigious public research university located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens’ university, funded by wealthy Frankfurt citizens and named after one of the city’s most famous personalities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The university is known for its strong emphasis on research and offers a wide range of academic disciplines across four major campuses: Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Medicine, and Law and Economics. It is particularly renowned for its programs in cultural studies, natural sciences, and its interdisciplinary approach in fields like neuroscience, social sciences, and biophysics. Goethe University has produced several Nobel laureates and is a leading institution in Germany for higher education and research, fostering collaboration with a number of international universities and research institutes.
The suitability of habitats for these medically relevant insects has been modeled across four federal states. At just six millimeters long, black flies (Simuliidae) might…
Kapitza-Dirac effect used to show temporal evolution of electron waves. It was one of the biggest surprises in the history of science: In the early…
Physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt find new solution to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. If gravitational condensate stars (or gravastars) actually existed, they would look…
Severe depression and treatment-resistant depression (TRD) are prevalent conditions. About one-third of patients show no improvement with standard treatments like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)…
Researchers have discovered the mechanisms that regulate the structure and function of the endoplasmic reticulum. The endoplasmic reticulum, often abbreviated as ER, is a complex…
An international research team comprising scientists from Germany, Austria, Canada, the Netherlands, and the USA has utilized a novel carbonate analysis technique on eggshells from…
Physicists model more than one million equations of state to uncover other previously unexplained properties of neutron stars. Through extensive model calculations, physicists at Goethe…
A Goethe University Frankfurt study found that a combined approach works best. Back pain is a common condition with numerous causes, including poor posture, overexertion,…
An international research team led by a Goethe University professor analyzes diamond inclusions. An international study confirms that the Earth’s transition zone (TZ), located between…
Further confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation….
Certain regions of the SARS-CoV-2 genome might be a suitable target for future drugs. This is what researchers at Goethe University, together with their collaborators…
Research team with Goethe University participation successfully proposes former quarry in Lower Saxony as Global Stratotype Section and Point. The international team of geoscientists led…
Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration use data that produced the first image of a black hole to constrain its…
Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African Nok culture. Before sugar cane…
Scientists at Goethe University within the international consortium COVID19-NMR refine previous 2D models. For the first time, an international research alliance has observed the RNA…
Physicists from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin track the propagation of light in a molecule. In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists…
International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe University have found the largest extraterrestrial diamonds ever discovered – a…
Archaeologists from Frankfurt and Munich prove origins in the first millennium B.C. Until now the Nebra sky disk was deemed to be from the Early…