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Using the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were...

Henry Chapman, Professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY Lead Scientist, will receive the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography 2021 from the...

The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect processes at the University—for example, resulting in the use of digital-based studies, restrictions on...

Dr. Caterina Vozzi, Director at the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology (CNR-IFN) in Milan, Italy, and Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Tenure-Track...

A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone on the road to the particle accelerator of the future. For the first time, a...

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY and Universität Hamburg has succeeded for the first time in building...

A research cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), has realized a new concept...

A German-Swedish collaboration of three research groups from University of Hamburg, DESY, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has been...

Zero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power...

At the age of 87 years, our highly esteemed Emeritus Prof. Dr. Peter E. Toschek passed away in Hamburg on 25 June 2020.

Mr. Toschek studied physics at...

Semiconductors play an important role in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solids they are quantum many-particle systems...

Why are black holes black? What are gravitational waves? And what can we learn about the universe using gravitational waves? The game app Trapped in...

In recent years, research teams around the world have gained important insights into the origin of the universe. They often relied on the work of...

In the "Hamburg Advanced Research Centre for Bioorganic Chemistry" (HARBOR), around 120 scientists from the MIN Faculty (Mathematics, Informatics and...

Caroline Compart ist mit dem Ernst Grimsehl-Preis ausgezeichnet worden. Der Preis wurde vom „Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Physik an der...

Quantum dynamics in physics and chemistry is the focus of an international research network that has been established very recently under the guidance...

The first Beate Naroska Guest Professorships of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe go to the physicists Prof. Dr. Belén Gavela (Universidad...

With the help of a special “light compressor”, a team of researchers has produced ultrashort laser pulses at DESY. In collaboration with scientist...

The Royal Society has elected Prof. Henry Chapman as a Fellow. The leading DESY scientist and professor at Universität Hamburg is a pioneer of...