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29.07.2014 - 09:15 Welcome from DESY Director

29.07.2014 - 10:15 Accelarator Physics (3)

29.07.2014 - 10:30 Introduction to the Standard Model

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24.07.2014

How viruses kill diarrhoea bacteria

Research at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III reveals how certain viruses called bacteriophages kill the potentially life...

22.07.2014

DESY welcomes a record high of summer students

This year, DESY welcomes a record of 117 summer students at both its locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen near Berlin. During eight...

18.07.2014

Leading scientists appointed for PETRA III and FLASH

Christian Schroer and Wilfried Wurth have joined the DESY team as new leading scientists. Christian Schroer assumes the leadership...

17.07.2014

When is a molecule a molecule?

Using ultra-short X-ray flashes, an international team of researchers watched electrons jumping between the fragments of exploding...

11.07.2014

Helmholtz Fellow Hesheng Chen guest at DESY

Today, DESY welcomes Chinese scientist Professor Hesheng Chen who starts the first of two periods of research in Hamburg. The...

10.07.2014

Scientists watch photosynthesis in action

An international team of scientists, including researchers from DESY, has caught a central step of photosynthesis in action for the...

09.07.2014

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics for Kerstin Tackmann

DESY physicist Kerstin Tackmann was awarded the Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics 2014 by the International Union of Pure...

03.07.2014

First H.E.S.S. II data reveal promising pulsar signal

Following the intensive commissioning phase of the largest Cherenkov telescope worldwide (H.E.S.S. CT5), the H.E.S.S. collaboration...

27.06.2014

Scientists watch molecular footballs explode

Using intense X-ray flashes, scientists have watched tiny molecular footballs explode. The molecules called buckminsterfullerenes...

18.06.2014

X-rays probe structure of liquid water at minus 46 degrees

Using the world's strongest X-ray laser, an international team of scientists has probed the internal structure of super-cooled...

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