Press releases

International team investigates chemical processes in the atmosphere in Brazil more

Iron isotopes in samples from asteroid Ryugu suggest its origin to lie beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn more

Conference of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry to further develop and promote interactive open access publishing with transparent peer review and public discussion
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Yafang Cheng is honored for outstanding scientific achievements with admission to the Earth & Cosmic Sciences Section of the Academia Europaea. more

In the Middle East, more than 90 percent of the fine aerosol particles that are detrimental to health and the climate originate from human-made sources more

From book printing to the free distribution of scientific publications on the internet developed in the City of Gutenberg: Celebrations at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz on 19 September 2022  more

Ecosystem changes can be more accurately predicted by emissions of chiral compounds more

Unprecedented and societally disruptive extreme weather events, including heat waves, droughts, dust storms and torrential rains, will soon become a reality unless immediate, ambitious, and transboundary climate action is taken, warns latest scientific assessment of state-of-climate in the region. more

People generate their own oxidation field and change the indoor air chemistry around them more

Earth’s past warm periods witnessed the shrinkage of the open ocean’s oxygen-deficient zones. more

Lockdowns in early summer 2020 meant that the amount of soot in the atmosphere, which is harmful to the climate and to health, almost halved more

Ion probe studies and improved stellar nucleosynthesis models are providing new insights into our solar system’s stardust more

New study challenges current understanding of the formation mechanism of atmospheric secondary organic aerosol – Particle chemistry appears to have a strong influence on the climate impact of soot and organic aerosols from wildfires or anthropogenic combustion sources  more

Researchers develop a highly sensitive novel technique capable of detecting chiral molecules within complex gas mixtures more

PhD students from the two Max Planck Institutes in Mainz will be attending the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau between June 26 and July 1 more

Greek University honors Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Johann Georg Goldammer for his fire ecological research more

Synergistic particle formation in the upper troposphere by nitric acid, sulfuric acid and ammonia more

Study brings comprehensive facts and figures on the importance of biological soil crusts for the regional and global dust cycle more

Sexual arousal can be determined from breath
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Vertical wind tunnel at Mainz University supplies important data to facilitate the prediction of heavy rain, hail, and graupel precipitation more