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 ...
30 March 2026
Freya Blekman elected to Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
She’s a top (quark) scientist, a constant presence on science social media, and a distinguished professor of physics: now Freya Blekman can add another title to her name, as a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. The Society (abbreviated KHMW), which ...
18 March 2026
DESY scientist Federico Meloni takes up professorship at the University of Bern
Federico Meloni, particle physicist at DESY, has taken up a joint appointment with the University of Bern in Switzerland. He is the first DESY scientist to become professor at a Swiss university. Meloni works on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN and is deputy spokesperson ...
