Two research topics of GSI/FAIR have made finalist in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs for 2024 in the “Physical Science” category: Professor Dmitry Budker and his team from the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and Dr. Jan Rothhardt from the Helmholtz Institute Jena (HI Jena) – both branches of GSI Helmholtzzentrums für Schwerionenforschung at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Friedrich Schiller University Jena – were selected for this next round. The Falling Walls Science Summit,…

Since 2018, the progress of the FAIR construction site has been documented by drone videos. A new compilation shows the development from 2018 to 2024 - starting with excavation and civil engineering up to the start of the technical building equipment. Thanks to the award-winning filming technique, a Longterm Dronelapse is created in which the individually filmed time-lapse videos are precisely superimposed and combined into a single video.

Following successful recertification, GSI/FAIR's high-performance data center Green IT Cube continues to bear the Blue Angel, the German government's eco-label. Thanks to a special cooling system, the data center is particularly energy-efficient and conserves resources. The conditions for the Blue Angel are reviewed and revised at regular intervals. In order to retain the seal, the Green IT Cube has been adapted to the new criteria.

It is with great grief that we bid farewell to Professor Reinhard Kulessa, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, a great colleague who passed away on 13 June this year. Born in 1940 he dedicated his life to nuclear physics as scientist and academic teacher. Already in 1979, he started to work at GSI in the group of Professor Dirk Schwalm, making tremendous contributions to understanding of nuclear structure with studies at UNILAC. Later he contributed to the success of the KAOS, HADES and LAND ...

The Hessian Minister for Science and Research, Art and Culture, Timon Gremmels, recently visited the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe). Accompanied by members of the state parliament Peter Franz and Bijan Kaffenberger he was given a comprehensive insight into the scientific and technical prospects of GSI and FAIR for the coming years. He was welcomed by the management of GSI and FAIR:…

Researching new vaccines quickly and powerfully for the benefit of humanity — the COVID-19 pandemic rendered clear the need for effective and rapid vaccine development processes. Scientists from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig investigated an innovative method that has the potential to increase significantly the effectiveness of future vaccine development.

Researchers at European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg have taken a closer look at the formation of the first crystallisation of nuclei in supercooled liquids. They found: The formation starts much later than previously assumed. The findings could help to better understand the creation of ice in clouds in the future and to describe some processes inside the Earth more precisely. Scientists from GSI/FAIR were involved in the experiments, whose results have now been published in the journal…

The PANDA PhD Prize 2023 was awarded to Anna Alicke (FZ Jülich/Germany). In her dissertation she studied hyperon production and reactions within the PANDA detector, which is being built at the FAIR accelerator facility.

To study the influence of microgravity and cosmic radiation on the human brain, a research team of GSI/FAIR recently conducted successful experiments in an unmanned spaceflight. The group led by Dr. Insa Schroeder and her PhD student Kim Knorr of the GSI/FAIR Biophysics department succeeded for the first time to send so-called brain organoids to an altitude of 265 kilometers and expose them to real microgravity for around six and a half minutes. The experiment took place in the framework of the…