02 June 2025
It is quite common for research equipment to end up in display cases and exhibition rooms: discarded prototypes, particularly attractive particle detectors or innovative new developments help to explain science and are technological witnesses to the times. However, it is rather ...
28 May 2025
From space travel to sign language: science takes over Hamburg's pubs for an evening
Are we bathing in dark matter? How do you uncover 5000-year-old letter secrets? Is climate protection a private commitment or a national goal? And does the language I use influence my identity? At this year's “Science on Tap”, researchers from the University of Hamburg and ...
22 May 2025
Four Hamburg Clusters of Excellence with DESY participation
As part of the German Excellence Initiative, the University of Hamburg has been awarded four clusters of excellence and the Hamburg University of Technology one. This was announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at a press conference today. The DESY research center is ...
30 April 2025
Kickoff for new Collaborative Research Centre in Mathematical Physics
With an international conference on “Higher Structures, Moduli Spaces and Integrability”, the Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) of the same name organised by DESY and the University of Hamburg was officially opened at the beginning of April. On ...
27 April 2025
EPS Outreach Prize for Beamline for Schools
The project “Beamline for Schools” has been turning high school students into temporary scientists for more than ten years. It’s a project of records and firsts: more than 20 000 students between the ages of 16 and 19 from all over the world have come in touch with it over ...
