Special fine structures were identified in thousands of tiny zircon crystals using transmission electron microscopy – as evidence in favour of the impact theory.

The ERC Consolidator Grant project “Glass2Melt” will investigate glasses and melts under high pressures and temperatures to create a model of Earth’s ancient magma ocean.

Large new international study combines satellite and ground data

Machine learning helps detect precursor phenomena of earthquakes: A new lab-study provides encouraging results for “time to quake” prediction.

Hydraulic stimulation in hot rock - Unique conditions for real-time monitoring of experiment at a depth of four kilometers

Genetic methods provide important basis for decoding the evolutionary history of life on Earth

Two of the highest EU research awards for the GFZ: With ERC-Synergy Grants, Thomas Walter (r.) will research internal “rotting” of volcanoes & Jens Kallmeyer (l.) metabolism of primordial microbes.

First analyses of satellite and GEOFON data give insights into the processes around the Herat fault, a region that is considered to be seismically rather inactive.

Counting lights for science: The research project Nachtlicht-BüHNE is looking for interested people to become Citizen Scientists in Sept & Oct to record the use of light in their surroundings via app

The simulations show how chemical groundwater quality in the Pra Basin develops. The approach can be transferred to other areas.