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Illustration of the nano burger in action
2025/06/25

Nanoburgers with promising flaws

Photo of DESY researcher Marcus Seidel in front of a research facility
2025/06/13

DESY scientist wins the junior scientist contest “Talents for Fusion”

Photo showing effects on cell shape, biofilm formation, and antibiotic resistance.
2025/06/04

New vulnerability discovered in hospital bacterium

Photo of the experimental setup at Beamline P21.1.
2025/06/03

Nanodomains hold the key to next-generation solar cells

Photo of researchers at the cavity
2025/06/02

Searching for Gravitational Waves with the ‘Gravity Cavity’

Graphic of colourful stickers with questions
2025/05/28

From Space Travel to Sign Language: Science Takes Over Hamburg’s Pubs for One Evening

Photo of the synchrotron radiation source PETRA III
2025/05/22

Four Hamburg Clusters of Excellence with DESY involvement

Illustration of the structure of liquid carbon
2025/05/21

Structure of liquid carbon measured for the first time

Graphic of a representative hydrogen structure from molecular dynamics simulation
2025/05/14

On the way to metallic hydrogen

Illustration of cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography
2025/05/09

Research team sheds light on the future potential of X-ray imaging and cryo-electron microscopy

Group photo of researchers in Hamburg
2025/04/30

Kickoff for new Collaborative Research Centre in Mathematical Physics

Group photo of the BL4S team
2025/04/27

EPS Outreach Prize for Beamline for Schools

Photo of the amplifier stage of the KALDERA laser system
2025/04/17

100 shots per second

Nail galls on a leaf.
2025/04/16

PETRA III peers deep into plant tumours

Photo of the spokespersons of the four LHC experiments at the award ceremony
2025/04/14

And the Oscar of Science goes to …

Graphic: Aligned biomolecules using an optical laser
2025/04/10

DESY scientists achieve breakthrough in laser-alignment for macromolecular single-particle imaging

Graphic of active energy compression of an electron bunch generated with a laser-plasma accelerator in a radiofrequency field
2025/04/09

A milestone for laser plasma acceleration

Photo of Prof. Beate Heinemann.
2025/03/31

Beate Heinemann to lead DESY’s Board of Directors

Photo of Director Iris Wilhelm.
2025/03/31

Iris Wilhelm is new Administrative Director at DESY

Graphic of an X-ray method
2025/03/28

New ways of optimizing energy materials

Map of academic institutions
2025/03/28

Launch of Doctoral Network EPACE Focusing on Compact Accelerators and Innovation

Image of exploding proteins
2025/03/27

Protein fireworks can lead to identification of their structures

Graphic of 3-fluorobenzyl alcohol
2025/03/27

Researchers control the handedness of molecules

Photo of the foundation stone laying ceremony for the DESY Innovation Factory
2025/03/26

Foundation stone laid for DESY Innovation Factory in Altona Innovation Park

Photo of a quantum tornado in momentum space
2025/03/25

Quantum tornadoes observed among electrons

Photomicrograph of a clinopyroxene crystal.
2025/03/19

Volcano's explosive eruptions defy predictions

Photo of Azadeh Maleknejad and Ursula Bassler.
2025/03/12

Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe honours two women physicists

Photo of the COLTRIMS reaction microscope at the SQS instrument.
2025/03/10

X-ray snapshot: How light bends an active substance

Photo of government representatives from Poland and the European Union.
2025/03/05

AstroCentPlus Kick-off in Warsaw

Photo of CMWS founding members and the declaration.
2025/02/28

Establishment of the Centre for Molecular Water Science (CMWS) Research Platform

Scientific diagram illustrating the forces acting on quarks.
2025/02/27

Quarks experience forces equivalent to the weight of ten elephants

Photo of a student explaining her experiment.
2025/02/26

Jugend forscht

Photo of the signatories.
2025/02/25

Fraunhofer and DESY Launch Strategic Collaboration to Promote Innovation and Research

A wide-angle view of a night sky, with a gray, stylized observatory dome structure is positioned in the foreground, left side of the image.
2025/02/14

Zwicky Transient Facility publishes the most extensive record of supernovae observations

Artistic view of spectral fingerprinting
2025/02/13

Innovations for Health: When Molecular Spectroscopy Meets Lasers and Photonics

The electron moving within the plasmonic potential develops a photoemission delay of between 50 and approximately 300 attoseconds, depending on its kinetic energy.
2025/02/12

Electron correlations dominate processes in sub-nanometre particles

Participants during the visit by the BMWK at DESY, from left to right: Beate Heinemann, Andrea Lübcke, Michael Kellner, Sabine Brock, and Christian Stegmann.
2025/02/10

Talks on innovation and transfer at DESY

The method developed at PETRA III enables precise tracking of the initial melting process in platinum.
2025/02/06

PETRA III delivers novel approach to determine melting at high pressures

A humanoider NA humanoid Nao robot visits the tunnel of the ARES particle accelerator (symbolic photo).
2025/01/31

ChatGPT, run my particle accelerator!

Artistic representation of chirality research using a free-electron laser. AI-based analysis reveals the time–energy and polarisation structure of each ultrashort pulse. The detailed insights gained enable site-specific observations in chiral systems and molecules (shown here: glycyl-L-alanine).
2025/01/28

A Global Vision for Helical X-Ray-Laser Pulses to Unveil Life’s Fastest Movements

Researcher at Leibniz University Hannover and DESY: Andrea Trabattoni.
2025/01/24

Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship for Andrea Trabattoni

The DESY auditorium is packed during the Users´ Meeting.
2025/01/23

Over 1100 participants registered for users’ meetings of DESY and European XFEL

The core of Quantinuum´s H1 quantum computer system.
2025/01/22

DESY and Quantinuum: Breakthrough in quantum physics

Astro particle expert Jacco Vink.
2025/01/22

Jacco Vink honored with Humboldt Research Award

Edward Witten gave the masterclass about the thermodynamics of black holes.
2025/01/20

Father of string theory Edward Witten at masterclass in Hamburg

Visualisierung CAST
2025/01/17

Foundation stone laying ceremony for new accelerator centre

Specialists among the bacteria: DiDNases are specialized molecular scissors and only cut up small pieces of DNA.
2025/01/16

Discovery of a new class of bacterial enzymes

DESY scientist Sarah Heim has taken a professorship at the University of Hamburg.
2025/01/09

DESY scientist Sarah Heim joins University of Hamburg as professor of physics

The High-Performance Optical Amplifier
2025/01/08

A High-Performance Optical Amplifier for Microdevices

Representative image featuring the DESY logo.

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