Research Highlights3 December 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsProteins in a crowd: European XFEL looks inside cellsPhoto: DESYAn international research team has observed in detail how the vital iron protein ferritin makes its way in highly dense environments. In the journal...26 November 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsResearchers develop new measurement technology for fragile quantum statesPhoto: UHH/Jens WiebeHybrid materials made of magnets and superconductors give rise to fascinating quantum phenomena, which are so sensitive that it is crucial to measure...21 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTwo-dimensional quantum materials act as cavitiesPhoto: Brad BaxleyQuantum materials are a fascinating platform for future technologies, as they host a variety of exotic phenomena beyond the reach of classical...16 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsFighting antibiotic resistance: DESY scientists advance drug development with room-temperature X‐ray screeningPhoto: DESYCUI member Prof. Henry Chapman and researchers at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL at DESY have developed a new room-temperature X‐ray...13 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA new type of light-controlled non-volatile memoryPhoto: MPSD/Jörg HarmsFerroic materials, like ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are central building blocks of modern data storage technology. Yet, current platforms face...3 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsMicroscopy: Researchers call for greater awareness of AI challengesPhoto: Nature, reprint with permissionThere has been enormous progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even highly sophisticated microscope images can now be faked with ease...17 September 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsShedding light on Insulators: How light pulses unfreeze ElectronsPhoto: T. Rossi /HZBMetal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical...8 September 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsAtomic nuclei in interaction: new insights into collective quantum behaviourPhoto: DESY/Leon M. Lohse“The whole is more than the sum of its parts” – even in quantum physics. Quantum objects, even simple ones such as atoms with only two possible energy...21 August 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsSymmetry-based Floquet Optical Selection Rules for light-induced SidebandsPhoto: Fan et al.Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), in collaboration with international partners, have developed...7 August 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsRevealing quantum fluctuations in complex moleculesPhoto: European XFELDue to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum physics, atoms and molecules never come completely to rest, even in their lowest energy state...Show all news
