11 March 2026 · Research Highlight

When carbon and nitrogen meet under pressure

When it comes to the chemical elements, few are simultaneously as ubiquitous and necessary as carbon and nitrogen. They form the backbone of life, they enable many catalytic processes used in industry, they ...

09 March 2026 · Research Highlight

Research team proves that it can use light to make molecules rotate on quantum materials

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel (CAU) and Hamburg (UHH), report in the journal Nature Communications that they have found a way to ...

05 March 2026

Keeping signals clear: EU funding for new super-oscillator chip technology

Tobias Herr, an expert in ultrafast photonics at DESY Photon Science and the University of Hamburg, has secured funding with his research group to advance their work on microresonators. The €150,000 ...

25 February 2026 · Research Highlight

Sluggish motion in tiny egg yolk cages

Egg yolk may appear runny and uniform but on the nanoscale it is one of the most crowded biological fluids in nature. Packed with proteins and fats, it serves as a dense storage reservoir for a developing ...

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Workshops

14 Apr. 2026 - 11:00
Location: DESY
Room: CFEL (Bldg. 99)
04 May. 2026 to 06 May. 2026
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