21 July 2025
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Gateway to the nanoworld
Nanotechnology is significantly advancing medicine. Tiny, specially designed particles deliver active substances into diseased cells or have a healing effect themselves. To ensure that this happens as safely ...
08 July 2025
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Nonlinear X-ray scattering reveals exotic quasi-particles
A group of DESY scientists together with colleagues from Finland and France has observed signatures of polariton-formation at extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths for the first time. In general, polaritons ...
08 July 2025
PETRA IV - Acceleration for Europe from Hamburg
The "Prioritisation procedure for extensive research infrastructures" of the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) ended today with a bang: Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär ...
26 June 2025
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Nanoburgers with promising flaws
Catalysts are indispensable in many industries: they speed up chemical reactions, making them economically viable. They often consist of tiny particles, just a few nanometres across, to which molecules attach ...