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On 28 November, the first mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, gave the keynote address to the Übersee-Club in Hamburg, in which he presented the aims of the Hamburg Senate in the area of science and scholarship. His speech was a clear commitment to Hamburg as a center of science and scholarship. In...

What are the building blocks of matter? What does dark matter consist of and what is "dark energy"? How are space and time structured, what are the origins and history of the Universe, and how does it all go together? These are the questions that they key research area Particle, Astro- and...

The University key research area Photon and Nanoscience includes a broad spectrum of successful projects in basic research. Topics range from magnetism, laser and quantum physics, and nanochemistry to biophysical problems such as the decoding of molecules using ultrafast lasers and state-of-the-art...

Centuries-old Arabic Koran and Biblical manuscripts or fragments of Homer's Illiad: manuscripts shaped the world’s cultures long before the printed book. Even today they play an important part in many non-European cultures. [Read on in German . . .]

Will the Gulf Stream continue to transport enough warmth to Europe? How fast will the Arctic sea ice melt? What will drive our Earth system in the future? Universität Hamburg's core research area Climate, Earth and Environment investigates fundamental questions into the processes and characteristics...

In their pursuit of democracy, Athenians of the 4th century B.C. were avid lottery fans. And they used a sophisticated lottery machine—the cleroterion. Historian Prof. Dr. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu and her team have now reconstructed the clever contraption. [Read on in German]

Fast schon fanatisch waren die Athener des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., wenn es um das Losen ging – für sie war es der Versuch, die Demokratie zur Perfektion zu treiben. Für das Losverfahren benutzten sie ein ausgefeiltes Gerät: das Kleroterion. Historikerin Prof. Dr. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu und ihr Team...

Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht presents the new lobby of the Center of Natural History. The lobby is dedicated to the Anthropocene, a term that describes a new geochronological epoch on Earth. In the Anthropocene, human beings are the most important factor in shaping Earth's biological, geological...