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Map of the Science City, including University of Hamburg buildings

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8 August 2025|Campus

Interdisciplinarity is key

The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is changing faster than any other research center in Hamburg. On occasion, we ask University...

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Photo: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB)

6 August 2025|Research

Gravitational waves from the Sun

It’s not just sunshine that comes from our nearest star — according to new research by IFIC, DESY and the Cluster of Excellence...

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Students Mehmet Agit Akgümüs (first left) and Nabil Salama (first right) with their mentors Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti and Dr. Jacob Egge

Photo: AG Garutti

6 August 2025|CHAMPP

Student project sets new limit for Axion Dark Matter

A search for axion dark matter, this ambitious endeavor was successfully taken by the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity...

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24 July 2025|Quantum Universe

Crucial progress in the MADMAX experiment

In the Shielded Experimental Hall (SHELL) at the University of Hamburg, an international research collaboration involving the...

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22 July 2025|Campus

Senate decides on the next steps for the Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory

What forces determine the behavior of elementary particles? And how have they significantly shaped the development of the...

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Photo: Eva Peters

18 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Summer party with award ceremony, lectures and hands-on activities

There were several reasons to celebrate at the CUI summer party: the extension of the Cluster of Excellence, the past seven years...

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Artistic representation of a connection between a top quark and its antiparticle.

Photo: Julia Münstermann (“Toponium, 2025, Cyanotype”)

17 July 2025|Research

Suddenly visible: New particle challenges Long-Held Assumptions

Researchers at the University of Hamburg and DESY have found evidence of the elusive toponium. With this discovery, the...

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Scientific illustration of the atto-clock

Photo: M. Ilchen with material from [ https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.011001 and https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03858] and pixabay.com

17 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Attosecond project receives around 1.4 million Euros in funding from the BMBF

A consortium of researchers from the University of Hamburg, and DESY together with the European XFEL and the Technical University...

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Photo: UHH, Leonie Göttling

15 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Ceremonial presentation of the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025

Prof. Teresa Pellegrino and Dr. Zala Lenarčič were awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025 for their outstanding research work...

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Photo: UHH/Leon Goertz

14 July 2025|CHAMPP

Award for two mathematicians from the University of Hamburg

Yesterday, the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing presented Professors Mathias Schacht and Paul Wedrich...

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