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November 24, 2021

Podcast Episode 4: Caroline Heneka

In our fourth podcast episode, Caroline Heneka, astrophysicist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and the Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence, talks about new telescopes and how to look for the first ever...

Elaf Musa nd Michael Büker sitting on opposite sides of a table in a seminar room smiling at the camera. A recording device, a laptop and a piece of paper can be seen on the table.

Podcast / Season 1

November 17, 2021

by Theresa Schredelseker

Podcast Episode 3: Elaf Musa

Listen to Elaf Musa, Experimental Physicist at DESY and PhD student at University of Hamburg, talking about proton therapy as a cancer treatment.

Podcast / Season 1

November 10, 2021

by Theresa Schredelseker

Podcast Episode 2: Hope Bretscher

In our second podcast episode, Hope Bretscher, Postdoc at the MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, reflects on objectivity in science.

Photograph of Niels Giesselmann, a blond young man wearing glasses, a beard and a squared shirt

Podcast / Season 1

November 3, 2021

by Theresa Schredelseker

Podcast Episode 1: Niels Giesselmann

In our first podcast episode, Niels Giesselmann talks about nanoconfined water and the struggles he faced when he started his PhD thesis at DESY right at the peak of a pandemic lockdown.

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Podcast / Season 1

September 13, 2021

by Theresa Schredelseker

Listen! Our Podcast Trailer is here

It’s September and we are very excited to venture new grounds with Science Chatter Hamburg: We go Podcast! Listen to our trailer and stay tuned for several episodes full of nerdy science talk from our...

The Whirlpool Galaxy (also named M 51) has a well observed magnetic field. The magnetic field lines broadly follow the spiral arms in the central region and become more braided and distorted in the outskirts due to turbulence and the satellite galaxy above.

Astrophysics and Astronomy / Blogposts

March 27, 2021

by Pranjal Trivedi

Once Upon a Dynamo in the Early Universe

New simulations by University of Hamburg researchers & collaborators at Australian National University reveal a powerful turbulent dynamo acting in the early Universe. This dynamo could have rapidly amplified the initially weak cosmic magnetic fields...

Milestones in the history of the Universe are shown, from the Big Bang, over recombination, the dark ages, the first galaxies followed by the epoch of reionization, until our fully ionized present-day Universe.

Astrophysics and Astronomy / Blogposts

March 26, 2021

by Caroline Heneka

How to go out and watch the first galaxies over 12 billion years ago

From Light to Dark & back to Light – A brief history At some point after the Big Bang the hot plasma opaque to light had cooled down enough so that during Recombination, electrons and...

An artist's impression of a neutron star merger and the emitted gravitational wave signal

Astrophysics and Astronomy / Blogposts / Particle Physics

March 15, 2021

by Cem Eröncel

Studying the uncharted territories of the Standard Model using gravitational waves

Our current knowledge about the elementary constituents of Nature can be summarized by the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This model aims to describe what the elementary building blocks of the Universe are and how...

Blogposts / Particle Physics

March 13, 2021

by Philipp

In touch with dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider: possible or preposterous?

A new day dawns at the Swiss-French border It is 4am in a small village close to the Swiss and French border. The sound of a cock crowing rings through the air. However, this sound...

Cartoon of the nanoparticle and the nanoparticles in case of protein adsorbed onto its surface. which results in increasing the overall size of the nanoparticle.

Blogposts / Nanoscience

March 13, 2021

by Saad

Getting rid of ‘Corona’

Once you read the title, the first thing that comes to your mind is the novel coronavirus, the vaccine, and the difficult situation we are facing right now. Keep calm, it’s not about this Corona,...

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