Loading menu, please wait..

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
A Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association

PHOTON SCIENCE

DOOR

PETRA III

FLASH

European XFEL

CFEL

CSSB

Quick Links

NEWS

07 August 2026 · Research Highlight

Study at PETRA III reveals vital information about the aging of ligaments surrounding the uterus

Women’s health is underrepresented in the medical canon. Case in point: pelvic organ prolapse will affect about 40% of all women, mostly toward the latter half of their lives, and yet little is known about ...

30 July 2026

Lasers for fusion research and development

The way to the worldwide first commercial laser fusion power plant is perhaps long – but it will certainly go through the federal states Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. The Federal Ministry for ...

16 July 2026 · Research Highlight

New findings on water storage in minerals under typical deep-Earth conditions

A research team from the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (University of Bayreuth), DESY, and partner institutions in Japan and China, investigated how much water the mineral stishovite, a high-pressure form of quartz ...

07 July 2026 · Research Highlight

How water cages in free electrons

Radiation is the silent bogeyman of the chemical world. We know that ionising radiation can do terrible damage to proteins and DNA. But how exactly does that damage start and develop, on the chemical level? A ...