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Radiation from outer space continuously reaches Earth in the form of electrically charged particles. While many hail from the sun, there are also extremely energy-rich particles whose origins have remained unexplained since their discovery in the 1960s. Over 400 researchers from 18 countries are...

“The University is an institution for research, teaching, and education. It is secular and committed to ideological pluralism together with scientific methods and standards in research and teaching.” Thus reads the initial and simultaneously seminal sentence of the Code of Conduct for Religious...

A number of great names in the field of art history have taught and worked at Universität Hamburg: Aby Warburg (1866–1929), Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), and Martin Warnke (born 1937), to name a few. Warnke, emeritus professor at our University since 2003, turned 80 on 12 October and to mark this...

Starting university is a big step—all the better one marks the occasion together with parents, friends and future study companions. Around 1,400 first-semester students and their families gathered yesterday in the Audimax to take part in the 2017 matriculation ceremony, which addressed the...

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference was accompanied by extensive media coverage. Though the content managed to reach much of Germany’s populace, it did little to change their attitudes. This was a main finding of a study just released in the journal Nature Climate Change by Professor Michael...

In 2003 the Children's University held its first lecture entitled—most appropriately for Hamburg—"Why does it rain?" The series of lectures, aimed at children between 8 and 12 years, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year. [Read on in German . . .]

Whilst observing galaxy clusters, an international research group led by scientists from Universität Hamburg has discovered a new class of cosmic radio waves. With the digital radio telescope Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), they recieved the longest radio waves capable of being measured on Earth. In...

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three pioneers of cryo-electron microscopy, a path-breaking technology enabling us to examine native biological samples using high resolution at low temperatures. Structural biologist Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald researches in this field and explains to us why...

An evening in the spirit of academic pursuit: for the fifth consecutive year, the Universität Hamburg Alumni Association and the Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V. (HITeC) will be hosting the University Ball on 18 November in the Grand Elysée Hotel Hamburg. Order tickets now... [Read on in...