20 May 2026
"How do you store the sun?”, “Will AI steal my job?” and “Just how rough is water, actually?” These are just a few of the many questions that are discussed in an entertaining way in Hamburg’s pubs as part of the “Wissen vom Fass” event. On 3 and 4 June, ...
08 May 2026
DESY Theory effort determines strong force with the highest precision
The glow of stars, the movement of planets, or the interaction of atoms – a set of only four fundamental forces is responsible for all interaction of and in matter. Every earth-based physics experiment which we can carry out in laboratories – small or big – is governed by ...
23 April 2026
Physicists take the view that just because a theory predicts something, that does not mean it is necessarily true. The only way to find out whether a theory is correct is through experiments. Particle physics is based on a theory that has so far described a vast range of ...
10 April 2026
DESY and Jugend forscht: young talent meets cutting-edge research
AI for cancer detection, accelerator research in space, underwater robots for cleaning up marine litter – these are not projects by established scientists, but ideas developed by school students from Hamburg. Schoolchildren with extensive interests in STEM presented these and ...
08 April 2026
DESY particle physicists measure up the W boson
Remember when scientists from the CMS experiment at CERN – using a method developed by DESY – put forward the most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson? The are ...
