Watch out tweeps: The first Dresden ScienceTweetup will take place on September 26th, 2015, focusing on light in research during the International Year of Light. Up to twelve bloggers and users of social media platforms can discuss with top scientists and get exclusive insights into the ... [Read more]
It sounded like a dream: having discussions over dinner in a pub on Lake Constance with scientists you’ve been citing since your undergraduate days. But, this was a reality for a group of Helmholtz Research Fellows selected to attend the 65th Nobel Laureates’ Meeting on the island of Lindau. As part ... [Read more]
Dance your RIS*: The electron storage ring BESSY II at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin produces synchrotron radiation, that scientists use to answer all kinds of scientific questions. Now BESSY gets an update and will turn into BESSY VSR. A very nicely done video explains what will change. For this, ... [Read more]
There are many outstanding blog projects concerning science, but I was especially intrigued by Douglas Natelson’s Nanoscale Views. “Why should Astrofolks have all the fun?” he asks in his intro. He is a full professor at Rice University, Texas, and he writes roughly once or twice a week about solid ... [Read more]
Last weekend, nature jobs blog editor Julie Goulds asked participants of a physics conference in Fullerton, California why they are a scientist. Sarah Gossan was the first to answer and establish the #IAmAScientistBecause on twitter. During the last few days scientists gave a lot of funny, ... [Read more]
What do physics students do during the summer break? Some of them join a summer school, that is offered by various research organizations. Some Helmholtz centers als offer this kind of opportunity. Nearly 120 young students from all over the world joined the DESY summer school this year. The ... [Read more]
Call to participate: On Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at 21.56 clock CEST German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch to the International Space Station. He will live, work and conduct research for six months aboard the ISS. We call on you today to bring space to your place and take a picture of ... [Read more]
GSI researchers in Darmstadt, Germany are studying the very small scales of matter with huge particle accelerators. Together with the Beilstein Institute, GSI recently released a series of videos explaining the physics behind their work. The video are licencsed unter Creative Commons (CC-BY-ND), ... [Read more]
Today we are launching Helmholtz Blogs, the Helmholtz Association‘s blog portal. Helmholtz is Germany’s largest scientific organization. In the Helmholtz Blogs researchers from the Helmholtz centers and the employees in the communications departments are blogging. The blog portal consits of ... [Read more]
