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9 October 2025|Research

From the tunnel effect to quantum computers: Nobel Prize in Physics honors fundamental research in quantum mechanics

In quantum physics, many events are random. Classical determinism does apply to other areas no longer apply here, and yet these concepts form the basis of modern technologies. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has now awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three quantum researchers.

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7 October 2025|Campus

Award for Physics master's student

Since October, the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft (Wübben Foundation for Science) has been supporting Nabil Salama, a master's student at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, with a student grant for a total of twelve months. With this scholarship, the foundation annually honors students who stand out in...

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3 October 2025|Publication

Microscopy: Researchers call for greater awareness of AI challenges

There has been enormous progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even highly sophisticated microscope images can now be faked with ease. These manipulated images are indistinguishable from real ones, even to experts. In a recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology, an international team of nanoscientists...

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1 October 2025|Publication

The Extreme Corners of Quantum Gravity

Combining Quantum Mechanics and gravity into one theory is the theoretical challenge of the twenty-first century. The "Swampland Programme" aims to map out which models behave badly when coupled to gravity. One of the main expectations is the Swampland Distance Conjecture: travelling to extreme corners of parameter space...

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25 September 2025|MIN-en

Long-Term Study in the Elbe Estuary: Fish Population Down by 90 Percent

In the last 4 decades, fish fauna in the Elbe estuary has changed dramatically according a project jointly conducted by the University of Hamburg and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). Among other things, the project’s researchers examine how environmental factors have an impact on the...

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11 September 2025|Equal Opportunity

From particle physics to AI: Physics Project Days for young female researchers

This year's Physics Project Days takes place from September 10 to 13 at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The four-day event is aimed specifically at female students from Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony. Around 50 students work in small groups on 15 different experiments and research projects supervised by...

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