Astronomers from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg were involved in the discovery of a new planet. As part of an international research team led by the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE, CSIC), they have found a planet in orbit of Barnard's star. Barnard's star is a so-called red dwarf and after the...
A high-precision X-ray technique could catch cancer at an earlier stage and facilitate the development and control of pharmaceutical drugs. A test at DESY’s synchrotron radiation source PETRA III, which used so-called X-ray fluorescence for that purpose, has proved very promising, as is now being reported in the journal...
Exploring the mystery of the molecular handedness in nature, scientists have proposed a new experimental scheme to create custom-made mirror molecules for analysis. The technique can make ordinary molecules spin so fast that they lose their normal symmetry and shape and instead form mirrored versions of each other. The...
The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, endowed with €137,036, has been awarded to the Japanese scientist Hirosi Ooguri yesterday. Ooguri, who works at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Tokyo, received the Prize for his work on string theory. The Prize is awarded by the Joachim Herz...
Together with 80 guests, the Sprinkenhof GmbH has celebrated the “Topping Out” ceremony for the new HARBOR research building on Campus Bahrenfeld today. HARBOR will be handed over to Universität Hamburg in the middle of 2020. In conjunction with today’s “Topping Out” ceremony, the project is within the budget and the...
A team of scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg has reached another milestone towards the direct imaging of individual biomolecules: the group led by Prof. Jochen Küpper from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science developed a new experimental technique which enables the separation of different peptide structures in...
