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For the second time, the Physics Project Days (August 14-17, 2019) will take place at the Universität Hamburg. The four-day physics workshop on the...

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg has succeeded in analyzing the structure of a special protein that helps...

The "Light & Schools" school laboratory's holiday course on research introduced children of primary school age to physical topics in a playful way...

Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one...

Universität Hamburg is a University of Excellence. The official announcement was made by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja...

Dr. Tobias Beck has accepted the call for the W1 TT W2 professorship for "Inorganic or Physical Chemistry with a Focus on Structure and Dynamics of...

Scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have achieved a new world record for an experimental type of miniature particle accelerator: For the first...

Researchers from Universität Hamburg have used machine-learning techniques for improving the identification of quantum phase transitions from...

Sound moves at different speeds depending on whether it passes through air, water or another liquid. In superfluid helium, it can even be heard twice...

For four days, Hamburg's universities and science institutes turned the Rathausmarkt into a public campus. The Universität Hamburg had the largest...

Why does the magnetic ball float? How to adjust a laser? Where do the students who attend "Light & Schools" come from? What applications are behind...

A team of scientists from DESY and the Universität Hamburg has achieved an important milestone in the quest for a new type of compact particle...

A team from the Universität Hamburg in cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Dutch University of Leiden has succeeded in magnetically...

Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of...

Do we have to know what happened in the split second after the big bang? Or why people started to scratch clay tablets? Together with the...

Understanding excellent research: on 3 June Senator Katharina Fegebank and UHH president Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Lenzen will present the four...

In recent years, the "Nacht des Wissens" (Night of Science) and the "Tag des Wissens" (Day of Knowledge) have inspired numerous people alternately...

Prof. Dr. Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Prof. Dr. Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, will be awarded the 2019...

Using X-rays, a research team has watched live how nanocrystals organize themselves into a highly ordered layer. The study helps to better understand...