The Hamburg CentreFor Ultrafast Imaging

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For the second time, the Physics Project Days (August 14-17, 2019) will take place at the Universität Hamburg. The four-day physics workshop on the Bahrenfeld campus is aimed at high school girls from Hamburg and the surrounding area. In small groups, the students conduct research on exciting projects on the Bahrenfeld...

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg has succeeded in analyzing the structure of a special protein that helps bacteria absorb vital iron. The team led by Prof. Henning Tidow from the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" reports in the journal eLife on its results...

The "Light & Schools" school laboratory's holiday course on research introduced children of primary school age to physical topics in a playful way. For the team of coordinators, this means looking at basic physics from a different perspective and questioning the familiar.

Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS) – a rod-shaped molecule consisting of one oxygen, one carbon and one sulphur atom – taking place within 125 trillionths of a...

Universität Hamburg is a University of Excellence. The official announcement was made by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, today in Bonn. The announcement was enthusiastically followed by many delighted members of the University via livestream.