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The European Territorial Cooperation INTERREG has awarded €3.6 million to the German-Scandinavian research project “Hanseatic League of Science...

Astronomers from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg were involved in the discovery of a new planet. As part of an international research...

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...

Exploring the mystery of the molecular handedness in nature, scientists have proposed a new experimental scheme to create custom-made mirror molecules...

The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, endowed with €137,036, has been awarded to the Japanese scientist Hirosi Ooguri yesterday. Ooguri, who...

Together with 80 guests, the Sprinkenhof GmbH has celebrated the “Topping Out” ceremony for the new HARBOR research building on Campus Bahrenfeld...

A team of scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg has reached another milestone towards the direct imaging of individual biomolecules: the group...

About 66 million years ago, a meteorite hit the Earth of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Mexico. This event triggered a mass extinction that...

Objective of the € 6.1 million research project “Plant Mobile RNAs: Function, Transport and Features“, shortly PLAMORF, is the long-distance transport...

When we put water in a freezer, water molecules crystallize and form ice. This change from one phase of matter to another is called a phase...

Could microorganisms devour and rid the world of microplastics? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit and his team in the Department of Biology at Universität...

International researchers from various universities conduct a unique experiment in the Large Wave Flume at the Coastal Research Centre in Hannover.

The dynamics of atomic gases at ultracold temperatures are a particular challenge for scientists. Researchers from the Center for Optical Quantum...

Water molecules exist in two different forms with almost identical physical properties. For the first time, researchers have now shown that these...

Dr. Christof Weitenberg from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg will receive an ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council...

Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter...

CSSB Scientists Martin Hällberg (Karolinska Instituet) and Kay Grünewald (Heinrich Pette Institute and Universität Hamburg) have recently been awarded...

The criteria that are necessary to succeed in science are given and have to be fulfilled. The path to success, however, is a broad playing field in...