23 October 2025 · Research Highlight

Assembling pieces of a molecular puzzle

Research team reveals surprising bonding of amino acid cysteine at DESY NanoLab, rewriting what textbooks say about its bonds. Their atomic-level discoveries promise surprising advances in smart biosensors, ...

22 October 2025 · Research Highlight

Nanoporous silicon generates electricity from friction with water

A European research team involving scientists from DESY and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) has developed a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity – by using water confined in ...

17 October 2025 · Research Highlight

Fighting antibiotic resistance: DESY scientists advance drug development with room-temperature X‐ray screening

Researchers at CFEL at DESY have developed a new room-temperature X‐ray crystallography technique that could significantly accelerate structure-based drug discovery—a process where drug candidates are ...

10 October 2025 · Research Highlight

Researchers explore unusual forms of ice at room temperature under extreme pressure

Ice cream comes in many different flavours. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the ...

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27 Oct. 2025 to 29 Oct. 2025
Location: DESY Hamburg
Room: FLASH Seminar room, Bldg. 28c
05 Nov. 2025 to 07 Nov. 2025
Location: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Room: CFEL (Building 99)
17 Nov. 2025 to 18 Nov. 2025
Location: CFEL
Room: SemR I-III
25 Nov. 2025 - 13:00
Location: CFEL (Sem. R. I-III)
26 Nov. 2025 to 28 Nov. 2025
Location: European XFEL / CFEL DESY
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