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Avian magnetometer system of birds (Feb. 2010)
- new study of iron containing sensory dendrites A team of scientists from HASYLAB/DESY, University of Oldenburg, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin led by Frankfurt University researchers, discovered that iron containing sensory dendrites in the inner dermal lining of the upper beak are a candidate structure for an avian magnetometer system of birds. The ...

HASYLAB annual users reports available online (Jan. 2010)
A deeper insight into the photon science activities is provided by the several hundred annual user experiment and development reports of research activities in 2008. These were formerly published in the “HASYLAB Jahresbericht” and are now only available online, providing a search function and an authors' index.

DESY celebrated its 50th birthday (Dec. 2009)
DESY was established on 18 December 1959 with the signing of the State Treaty between the City of Hamburg and the Federal Republic of Germany. The founding father and first director, Professor Willibald Jentschke, wanted to set up a competitive particle accelerator to take an active part in the upcoming research field of particle physics. In 1964, the first accelerator, ...

Offical starting shot for PETRA III (November 2009)
The world’s most brilliant synchrotron radiation source was inaugurated. In Hamburg, researchers from all over the world will be able to use a new research facility of superlatives: on the campus of DESY, a research centre of the Helmholtz Association, the world’s most brilliant and modern storage-ring-based synchrotron radiation source was ...