Shooting lasers at matter to find answers to unsolved questions. For Kai-Fu Wong, this is everyday life in the lab. His specialty is ultrashort pulses in the attosecond and femtosecond range, which allow for particularly precise investigation of states of matter. At the Bahrenfeld campus in Hamburg, he especially values the...

The interaction between X-rays and matter can be actively controlled: an international research team led by the University of Hamburg and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has succeeded in producing bright X-ray images that come with significantly less damage. In Nature Communications, the researchers report the use of...

A major success for the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg: the student robot soccer team Hamburg Bit-Bots finished as runners-up in the Humanoid Soccer League – Small Size Division at this year's RoboCup World Championship in Incheon, South Korea. The result marks the team's best international...