A precision measuring device developed at the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg has arrived at a partner laboratory in Paris for the testing phase. This marks an important milestone in the preparations for LISA, the ESA mission to detect gravitational waves from space.

Watch water spiral down a bathroom drain and you are looking at one of the most stubborn puzzles in physics. Vortices, the swirling structures behind everything from turbulence around aircraft to the churn of weather systems, have resisted a complete scientific description for many decades. Now imagine shrinking that...

Prof. Shuyun Zhou from Tsinghua University, China, and Prof. Suzy Zhang from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Japan, have been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2026 by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The program includes an extended research stay at...