One of Europe's oldest and broadest research universities, pairing quantum physics and cosmology with world-class medicine in the heart of Munich.
LMU microbiologists show that the bacteria already living in the nose can either starve Staphylococcus aureus or feed it, a finding that complicates any simple division into good and bad microbes.
The Belle II experiment, with LMU physicists on board, has recorded the largest data sample of entangled B-meson pairs ever collected, a milestone for probing why matter outlasted antimatter.
LMU researchers have discovered autoantibodies against the astrocyte protein MLC1 in patients with MS-like disease, opening a route to more precise diagnosis and treatment.
LMU telescopes tracked a rare shock breakout from a collapsing star 500 million light-years away, a supernova that should have fired a gamma-ray burst but apparently choked it.
LMU geobiologists found a ciliate in Gabonese river sediments that senses Earth's magnetic field through bacteria living inside it, reshaping ideas about how magnetoreception evolves.
LMU plant biologists evolved cyanobacteria that grow, fix carbon and release oxygen with only one photosystem, overturning a principle taught for more than half a century.
A study of 50 rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, co-led at LMU, finds that mineral weathering recaptures a surprising share of the CO2 released as frozen ground thaws.
Preliminary experiments in LMU's Multisensory Perception Lab suggest scrolling compresses our sense of time while leaving weaker memories than other media.
LMU's Biomedical Center joins the five-university ContraPur consortium to develop a reversible contraceptive that blocks sperm transport rather than hormones.
Two papers from LMU's Nano-Institute solve complementary problems in perovskite quantum dots: keeping them stable in friendly solvents and growing them with sub-unit-cell precision.
Chemical analysis of ash from two Roman incense burners, initiated by an LMU research group, reveals local plants, wine and exotic resins burned in domestic rituals before Vesuvius struck.
Ancient genomes from Britain and Türkiye, analysed by a team co-led at LMU, provide the earliest direct genetic evidence of dogs and suggest they spread across Eurasia remarkably fast.
LMU physicists have directly observed the birth of a polaron, the composite of an electron and the lattice distortion it drags through a crystal, confirming a 93-year-old prediction.
Survey data from 38 countries and experiments in the UK and US show that seeing AI as a job destroyer erodes satisfaction with democracy and political engagement, even before any jobs are lost.
An LMU team reports a perovskite-silicon tandem cell with 31.4 per cent efficiency, the first produced wholly in the Munich region, thanks to a redesigned molecular contact layer.
LMU psychologists show that memory cues land best during inhalation while the brain reconstructs the memory on the following exhalation, casting respiration as a natural pacemaker for recall.
LMU neuroscientists trace birds' magnetic sense to electrically sensitive cells in the inner ear, vindicating a hypothesis first proposed in 1882.
By sequencing around 350 cuckoo genomes, LMU evolutionary biologists show how egg-colour mimicry is inherited through the female line, letting one species fool many hosts without splitting apart.