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A research team has taken a close look at catalytic surfaces at the DESY NanoLab. In doing so, they have not only learnt more about the exact processes that take place during catalysis, but have also tried out ways of positively influencing these processes. The team presents its results in the scientific journal ACS Nano.

Scientist Thomas Marlovits (DESY/CSSB/UKE) together with three other researchers, Edith Houben from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Tracy Palmer from Newcastle University and John McKinney, PhD, EPFL Lausanne received an ERC Synergy grant for their project ‘CombaT7’, for which they will receive funding of 10.8 millionn euro to be used over a period of six years. The project aims to provide a deep mechanistic understanding...

On October 29th and 30th, 2024, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY will host the workshop “WG Quantum Computing & Applications: Use cases in Key Verticals” organized by the Quantum Business Network (QBN). The event brings together experts from the academic and industry communities to discuss the latest developments and potential applications of this pioneering technology.

The network Lasers4EU, which helps scientists gain access to laser lab setups across the continent, will now include five laser setups at DESY that specialise in ultrafast science. The setups are based on tabletop lasers that either are pulsed to access the attosecond timescale, or a billionth of a billionth of a second, or that generate secondary radiation that can attain ultrashort processes, or...

The Attosecond Science group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY has developed a novel light source capable of producing extremely short pulses for the investigation of UV-induced molecular dynamics with unprecedented temporal resolution. Scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg describe their unique observations in Nature Communications.

DESY and numerous Indian research institutes want to work more closely together in the future. To this end, representatives of these institutes have made an agreement during a delegation visit of the German federal government to New Delhi. In the context of the seventh German–Indian governmental consultations and in celebration of 50 years of Indian-German scientific collaboration, a collaboration agreement was signed in the...

A group of scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg in collaboration with the University of Rochester in the US might be on the trail of something new in the data from the CMS detector, one of the two giant multi-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Focusing on LHC collisions that produce pairs of top quarks, they have found an...

Former DESY scientists Eckhard Elsen and Robert Klanner will be awarded the W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics by the American Physical Society (APS) next spring, the APS announced this week. The two particle physicists are receiving the award for “pioneering work in establishing the HERA physics program and detectors, leadership in HERA physics exploitation resulting in the measurement of the proton´s structure...

Today, DESY and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) celebrated the official opening of the new Science Data Management Centre (SDMC) building on the DESY campus in Zeuthen. In the presence of Mario Brandenburg, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Tobias Dünow, State Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg...

An astonishing property of trees is their ability to transport water and dissolved nutrients from their roots all the way up to their crowns, sometimes dozens of metres above, without the need for a mechanical pump. The underlying mechanism is ingenious: trees have a system of fine capillaries through which the water can rise from below the ground to the very tips of their...

A delegation from DESY led by Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, has travelled to Kyiv to demonstrate its solidarity with the Ukrainian scientific community.

In Paris in mid-September, akick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe (ACME) marked the start of a new European effort in multimessenger astronomy. ACME is funded with 15 million euro from the European Union and coordinated by Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France and aims to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion...