Dec. 10, 2014
Leibniz Prize for DESY scientist Henry Chapman
DESY scientist Professor Henry Chapman will be awarded one of the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes 2015 by the German research foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the ...
Nov. 03, 2014
Scientists use X-ray laser as ultra slow-motion camera
New research paves the way for nano-movies of biomolecules
Nov. 26, 2014
DESY’s PETRA III sheds light on magnetic microvortices
Scientists film magnetic memory in super slo-mo
Nov. 24, 2014
Characterization of X-ray flashes open new perspectives of the nano cosm
Stopwatch for Ultra-short X-ray pulses
Nov. 18, 2014
Scientists X-ray tiny organelles of bacteria
X-ray laser imaging method successfully tested on nanoscale biological samples
Nov. 05, 2014
PETRA III: Researchers watch layers of buckyballs grow
Live Images from the Nano-cosmos
Nov. 04, 2014
X-ray vision of photosynthesis at PETRA III
New technique facilitates analysis of biomolecules in a near-natural state
Oct. 30, 2014
PhD Award presentation by the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY
The award of the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY 2014 is shared in equal parts by Stephan Stern, DESY (CFEL) and University of Hamburg, and Tigran Kalaydzhyan, DESY (Theory) and ...
Oct. 28, 2014
50 years of research with synchrotron light at DESY
DESY celebrates the anniversary of a very special kind of light on 28 October 2014: For 50 years, scientists have been conducting research with synchrotron radiation at DESY – an ...
Oct. 20, 2014
DESY launches photon science teacher training programme
DESY launched a teacher training programme "Lehrerfortbildung@DESY” in the field of research with light. During the autumn vacations, eight teachers from the greater area of Hamburg ...
Oct. 09, 2014
Study at PETRA III and SPring-8: How ceramics get super-tough
Scientists find new toughening mechanism
Jul. 24, 2014
A lamellar lens prototype has been successfully tested at PETRA III
Researchers Develop a New Type of X-ray Lens
Oct. 02, 2014
New software package for simple and fast analysis of SAXS Data
Now available at the PETRA III beamline P03
Sep. 10, 2014
Researchers watch lipid molecules in motion at PETRA III
X-ray stroboscope offers new insights into biomolecular dynamics
Sep. 09, 2014
3D microscope at PETRA III investigates flexible polymer tandem solar cells
X-ray imaging at DESY paves the way for novel solar cell production
Sep. 08, 2014
‘Electric Prism’ Separates Water’s Nuclear Spin States
Using an "electric prism", scientists from CFEL have found a new way of separating water molecules that differ only in their nuclear spin states and, under normal conditions, do not ...
Sep. 01, 2014
Helmholtz funds two DESY spin-offs for X-ray detectors and femtosecond-lasers
'X-Spectrum' company and 'Class 5 Photonics' company
Aug. 29, 2014
A roof for interdisciplinary Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB
Stapelfeldt and Hoops lay foundation stone for world-wide unique infection research centre
Aug. 27, 2014
FLASH2 generates first laser light
FLASH: First simultaneous operation of two free-electron lasers at one particle accelerator
Aug. 05, 2014
FLASH study calls for a better theory of electrons in solids
Every Electron Counts!
Jun. 27, 2014
Scientists watch molecular footballs explode
Study provides important milestone for investigation of individual biomolecules
Jul. 24, 2014
X-ray study at PETRA III reveals workings of potential alternative to antibiotics
How viruses kill diarrhoea bacteria
Jul. 22, 2014
Helium nanodroplets rotate faster than expected
Scientists observe quantum vortices in cold helium droplets
Jul. 21, 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 of the scientific programme of DESY’s synchrotron ...
Jul. 18, 2014
Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
When is a molecule a molecule?
Jul. 10, 2014
First observation of the molecular dynamics of photosystem II
Scientists watch photosynthesis in action
Jun. 19, 2014
X-rays probe structure of liquid water at minus 46 degrees
First structural measurements in previously inaccessible "no-man's land"
Jun. 09, 2014
Biology with free-electron X-ray lasers
Special edition of Philosophical Transactions B describes an emerging field
Jun. 02, 2014
Scientists spin ultra-strong cellulose fibres at PETRA III beamline
Stronger than steel
May. 30, 2014
PETRA III: High-speed snapshots of biomolecules
Using DESY's synchrotron light source PETRA III, scientists have pioneered a new way to analyse delicate biomolecules. The novel approach, borrowed from free-electron lasers (FELs), could ...
May. 12, 2014
Delayed explosion due to cluster shell
Hidden charge states in nanoplasmas revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy
May. 08, 2014
Study of excited state dynamics in iron coordination complexes
Observing electron clouds, scientists could improve chemical processes
Mar. 27, 2014
Scientists watch nanoparticles grow at PETRA III
Analysis allows tailoring materials for switchable windows and solar cells
Apr. 22, 2014
Researchers decoded two key proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium
An international team of scientists has decoded two key proteins of the malaria parasite Plasmodium, by using PETRA III and other facilities. The results shed light on the workings of ...
Apr. 14, 2014
Scientists open door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard-drives
Research at DESY's light sources enhances understanding of materials interfaces
Mar. 12, 2014
Study of liquid hydrogen at FLASH provides important data for planetary models
Using DESY’s free-electron laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets such as Jupiter or Saturn. The observations of the team ...
Mar. 21, 2014
Twisted X-rays reveal spin waves
An intelligent radar trap for atoms allows the investigation of tomorrow’s magnetic data storage
Feb. 28, 2014
Researchers captured images of an ensemble of isolated molecules with an X-ray laser
A team of researchers from Germany (from DESY and CFEL among others), Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA has used the world’s most powerful X-ray laser LCLS to take snapshots of ...
Feb. 04, 2014
Civil construction of extension halls started after shutdown of PETRA III
The civil construction of the two new PETRA III extension halls for additional 10 beamlines has just begun on the DESY campus, requiring the complete removal of the storage ring including the ...
Feb. 27, 2014
Researchers X-Ray living cancer cells at PETRA III
Nanodiffraction opens up new insights into the physics of life
Feb. 03, 2014
DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting 2014 attracted many participants
About 700 participants from over 25 countries attended the joint DESY Photon Science and European XFEL Users’ Meeting on 30-31 January 2014 in Hamburg. As in the last years current and future ...
Jan. 30, 2014
Faster X-ray technology pioneered at PETRA III paves the way for better catalysts
Researchers observed a catalyst surface at work with atomic resolution
Jan. 27, 2014
Innovative technology opens up new biomolecule analysis possibilities at PETRA III
Scientists investigated micrometre-sized crystals of a key enzyme at P14
Jan. 23, 2014
Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2013
The Bjørn H. Wiik Prizes 2013 was awarded to Ralf Röhlsberger at DESY.
Jan. 20, 2014
International Year of Crystallography 2014
United Nations celebrate a century of ground-breaking advances
