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Surrounded by stardust: Researchers led by #HZDR found #iron-60 from ancient stellar explosions in Antarctic ice, confirming that our Solar System is currently moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud – and Earth is still collecting traces of it today.

@awi #unibonn, #ANU

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/fe60_ice

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

Surrounded by stardust: Researchers led by #HZDR found #iron-60 from ancient stellar explosions in Antarctic ice, confirming that our Solar System is currently moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud – and Earth is still collecting traces of it today.

@awi #unibonn, #ANU

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/fe60_ice

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

Surrounded by stardust: Researchers led by #HZDR found #iron-60 from ancient stellar explosions in Antarctic ice, confirming that our Solar System is currently moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud – and Earth is still collecting traces of it today.

@awi #unibonn, #ANU

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/fe60_ice

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

Surrounded by stardust: Researchers led by #HZDR found #iron-60 from ancient stellar explosions in Antarctic ice, confirming that our Solar System is currently moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud – and Earth is still collecting traces of it today.

@awi #unibonn, #ANU

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/fe60_ice

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

Surrounded by stardust: Researchers led by #HZDR found #iron-60 from ancient stellar explosions in Antarctic ice, confirming that our Solar System is currently moving through the Local Interstellar Cloud – and Earth is still collecting traces of it today.

@awi #unibonn, #ANU

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/fe60_ice

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR/ NASA/Goddard/Adler/U.Chicago/Wesleyan

Neuer Wissenschaftspodcast bei @detektorfm: Wie sich mit Hilfe von Peptiden das Edelmetall Palladium aus Industrieabfällen recyceln lässt, erklärt Dr. Nora Schönberger vom #HZDR im #Forschungsquartett.

Jetzt reinhören: https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=77670&pNid=2172

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist: For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice.
#HZDR, #FHI, #TUD, @fzj #TU/e #THz

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/pam

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist: For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice.
#HZDR, #FHI, #TUD, @fzj #TU/e #THz

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/pam

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist: For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice.
#HZDR, #FHI, #TUD, @fzj #TU/e #THz

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/pam

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist: For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice.
#HZDR, #FHI, #TUD, @fzj #TU/e #THz

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/pam

Atoms vibrate on circular paths – with an unexpected twist: For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice.
#HZDR, #FHI, #TUD, @fzj #TU/e #THz

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/pam

Magnetic “super lenses” for research under extreme pressure: A team including scientists from #HZDR succeeded in analyzing lanthanum #superhydrides, a class of promising high-temperature #superconductors, using #NMR spectroscopy.

Read more:
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/lenz_lens

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

#OncoRay is receiving € 1.1 M in funding from #BMFTR under the program “Nuclear Safety and Radiation Research” for the joint project #MEDABIS-PRO.
#HZDR Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine at @tudresden

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/medabis-pro
Image: OncoRay

Image: OncoRay

@helmholtz launches major water research initiative: #HZDR contributes research on urban #resilience and river #ecosystem recovery with two projects – the URBAN-LE Solution Lab in Leipzig and the SOLVE initiative in the #Elbe River basin.
▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/solution_labs

A probing look at hot plasma: researchers at #HZDR and #EuropeanXFEL demonstrates how copper atoms shed electrons while combining two lasers: the X-ray free-electron laser and the high-intensity optical laser ReLaX at the HED-HiBEF experiment station.

▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/probing_hot_plasma

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

„Dali wird Licht ins Dunkel bringen“: #Wissenschaftsrat empfiehlt Großforschungsanlage in #Dresden und kalkuliert 760 Mio. Euro für #Terahertz-Beschleuniger im #HZDR
https://oiger.de/2026/03/27/dresdner-forscher-wollen-materie-mit-millionenteurem-super-nacktscanner-dali-durchleuchten/197020
#Dali #Helmholtz #Rossendorf #Terahertz #Teilchenbeschleuniger #Quantentechnologie #Materialforschung

Meilenstein für die Krebsforschung: Das HZDR erhält ~5 Mio. € EU-Förderung für einen Ganzkörper-PET-Scanner. Er beschleunigt die Entwicklung neuer Radiopharmaka und stärkt die Präzisionsmedizin. #HZDR #Krebsforschung #PrecisionMedicine #PET
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/03/16/meilenstein-fuer-radiopharmazeutische-krebsforschung-und-praezisionsmedizin

#HZDR guest researcher Jason Ross awarded Roy G. Post Scholarship for research on removing #radioactive substances from the body: German-French #ActiDecorp project paves the way for new therapies against #actinide contamination.

#unistra.fr #UBE @tudresden #ASNR

Image: Peter Kaden

➡️ www.hzdr.de/presse/jross

#HZDR guest researcher Jason Ross awarded Roy G. Post Scholarship for research on removing #radioactive substances from the body: German-French #ActiDecorp project paves the way for new therapies against #actinide contamination.

#unistra.fr #UBE @tudresden #ASNR

Image: Peter Kaden

➡️ www.hzdr.de/presse/jross

#HZDR guest researcher Jason Ross awarded Roy G. Post Scholarship for research on removing #radioactive substances from the body: German-French #ActiDecorp project paves the way for new therapies against #actinide contamination.

#unistra.fr #UBE @tudresden #ASNR

Image: Peter Kaden

➡️ www.hzdr.de/presse/jross

#HZDR guest researcher Jason Ross awarded Roy G. Post Scholarship for research on removing #radioactive substances from the body: German-French #ActiDecorp project paves the way for new therapies against #actinide contamination.

#unistra.fr #UBE @tudresden #ASNR

Image: Peter Kaden

➡️ www.hzdr.de/presse/jross

#HZDR guest researcher Jason Ross awarded Roy G. Post Scholarship for research on removing #radioactive substances from the body: German-French #ActiDecorp project paves the way for new therapies against #actinide contamination.

#unistra.fr #UBE @tudresden #ASNR

Image: Peter Kaden

➡️ www.hzdr.de/presse/jross

Photokatalysatoren gesucht! Polyheptazin-Imide könnten für viele spannende chemische Reaktionen das Material der Wahl sein. Eine neue verlässliche & reproduzierbare theoretische Methode (schon validiert) hilft beim Eingrenzen der Kandidaten. #CASUS #HZDR
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/03/04/photokatalyse-hohe-erwartungen-an-materialklasse-untermauert

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Experimental validation of TRIDYN self-sputtering simulations

Marie Deseyn, Michael Heines, Bart Caerts, Thomas Elias Cocolios, René Heller, Ulrich Kentsch, Goele Magchiels, Wolfhard Möller, Lino da Costa Pereira, André Vantomme, Wiktoria Wojtaczka, Qiang Zhao
SciPost Phys. 20, 055 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.2.055

#KULeuven #HZDR

A team at #HZDR has looked, for the first time, inside a #sodium-zinc molten salt #battery at ~600 °C using #X-ray imaging in real time during operation. Hidden aging processes were revealed: important information for simplified cell concepts for large-scale #energy storage.

▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/x_ray_battery

Image: Martins Sarma, Natalia Shevchenko

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

How does uranium from mining enter the environment? An international study investigates #uranium exposure in children living near South African #goldmines and reveals how this exposure is reflected in children’s #hair.
#HZDR #Wismut #VKTA #SAMRC #IARC #NWU #UJ #UKZN
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/uran_gold

Image: Angela Mathee

How does uranium from mining enter the environment? An international study investigates #uranium exposure in children living near South African #goldmines and reveals how this exposure is reflected in children’s #hair.
#HZDR #Wismut #VKTA #SAMRC #IARC #NWU #UJ #UKZN
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/uran_gold

Image: Angela Mathee

How does uranium from mining enter the environment? An international study investigates #uranium exposure in children living near South African #goldmines and reveals how this exposure is reflected in children’s #hair.
#HZDR #Wismut #VKTA #SAMRC #IARC #NWU #UJ #UKZN
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/uran_gold

Image: Angela Mathee

How does uranium from mining enter the environment? An international study investigates #uranium exposure in children living near South African #goldmines and reveals how this exposure is reflected in children’s #hair.
#HZDR #Wismut #VKTA #SAMRC #IARC #NWU #UJ #UKZN
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/uran_gold

Image: Angela Mathee

How does uranium from mining enter the environment? An international study investigates #uranium exposure in children living near South African #goldmines and reveals how this exposure is reflected in children’s #hair.
#HZDR #Wismut #VKTA #SAMRC #IARC #NWU #UJ #UKZN
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/uran_gold

Image: Angela Mathee

Team discovers unexpected oscillation states in magnetic vortices: Researchers at #HZDR have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation in tiny #magnetic vortices. The finding could serve as a universal adapter bridging electronics, #spintronics, and quantum devices.
▶️ http://www.hzdr.de/presse/floquet

How healthy are Brazil nuts really: The popular seeds, known as “#selenium bombs”, contain also traces of metals like #barium and #radium. Researchers at #HZDR and #VKTA conducted a study on the amounts of these elements that could enter the body during digestion.

Read more:
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/brazil_nut

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

Kick-off für #SAXFUSION: Vertreter*innen aller Partnereinrichtungen trafen sich zum Start des sächsischen Netzwerks für #Fusionsforschung und -technologien am #HZDR. Nach der Eröffnung standen Austausch, nächste Schritte und Einblicke in den Elektronenbeschleuniger ELBE auf dem Programm.

Laser #light and the #quantum nature of #gravity: #HZDR scientist presents new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light, conceiving an experiment through which gravitational waves can not only be observed but even manipulated.
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/light_graviton

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

Nanomagnets with a special twist: Research team from #HZDR, #NTNU, and #IFJPAN has developed a method that facilitates the manufacture of efficient magnetic #nanomaterials based on inexpensive raw materials, using a highly focused ion beam.
▶️www.hzdr.de/presse/magnetic_nanomaterials

Image: Sander Münster/HZDR

A direct leap into terahertz: #HZDR researchers find that #dirac materials enable efficient signal conversion at room temperature, opening up prospects for future generations of mobile communications or sensor technology.
▶️https://www.hzdr.de/presse/dirac

Image: Oliver Killig/HZDR

Enjoying the #HZDR Data Management Days 2025 in #Rossendorf,

Our #HMC colleague Oonagh Brendike-Mannix shared why Matter Metadata Matters – and it really does!

Great updates on #HMC_Projects HELIPORT, HELPMI & Semantic X-Lab, plus connecting with ELI Beamlines on laser #metadata across Europe.

Many thanks to the organizers for the fantastic execution of this event – it’s been and still is truly inspiring!

Interested in our HMC Projects?
➡️ https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/inf-projects

@HZDR @helmholtz

Wie gelingt verantwortungsvoller #Bergbau in Europa? Im EU-Projekt VECTOR verknüpfen 18 Partner unter Leitung des #HIF am #HZDR Geo-, Daten- und Sozialwissenschaften, um Lösungen für eine sichere #Rohstoffversorgung zu entwickeln, die auf Mensch & Umwelt ausgerichtet sind.
https://www.hzdr.de/presse/vector-results

Project LUNANOVA will put the solar model back on its feet: #ERC has awarded a Synergy Grant with a total budget of €14 million to four scientists from #HZDR in Germany, #INFN, #UNINA, both in Italy, and #ICE-CSIC in Spain. Congratulations!
▶️ www.hzdr.de/presse/lunanova

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

Nach zwei erfolgreichen Amtszeiten endet die Präsidentschaft von Otmar D. Wiestler an der Spitze der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft @helmholtz . Das
#HZDR dankt herzlich für seine Führung, seinen Einsatz und seine Unterstützung der Forschung.

https://www.helmholtz.de/newsroom/artikel/wechsel-an-der-spitze-der-helmholtz-gemeinschaft/

Die #Radiopharmazie entwickelt sich zur Schlüsseltechnologie bei der Diagnose und Therapie von #Krebs. Beim vom #HZDR mit organisierten „Hi-Tech meets Life Science Forum“ kamen Wissenschaft und Industrie zusammen, um neue Impulse zu setzen und Kooperationen anzustoßen.
https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=75858

#DLR:
"
45. DLR-Parabelflugkampagne gestartet
"
"Die 45. Parabelflugkampagne der Deutschen Raumfahrtagentur im DLR findet vom 20. bis 31. Oktober 2025 in Bordeaux statt.
Es sind insgesamt elf Experimente aus den Bereichen Biologie, Physik, Technologie und Materialwissenschaften an Bord. .."

https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/45-dlr-parabelflugkampagne-gestartet

29.10.2025

#A310ZEROG #Bordeaux #FlameMaps #HZDR #Novespace #Parabelflug #Raumfahrt #RWTH #Schwerelosigkeit #SpaceFlight #TUBerlin #VEKTORFDA

Hier ein paar Einblicke in die Labore beim Tag der offenen Labore im #HZDR. Mir hats super gefallen. Schade, das es zu meiner Schulzeit keine Physik-Exkursionen hierher gab.
#tdol2025

Elegant theory predicts the chaos created by #bubbles: A research team of #HZDR, Johns Hopkins University and Duke University has discovered that a century-old #turbulence theory also explains how rising bubbles stir water.
▶️https://www.hzdr.de/presse/kolmogorov

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

Solar pacifiers: Influence of the planets may subdue solar activity
Researchers at #HZDR find the Sun’s activity cycles can be traced to the tidal pull of planets – and that this #planetary “sync” naturally reins in #solar activity.

Read more:
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/qbo

Image: NASA/GSFC/SDO