• Around 19 so-called start-up specializing in property technology are aiming to turn the property market digital, according to a 2019 Comdirect study. The city of Hamburg counts among Germany’s top three proptech hotspots after Berlin and Munich, according to a study by the Swedish Catella Property...

  • The senate honoured DESY, the global leader of accelerator technology, structural research, particle and astroparticle physics Thursday (January 16, 2020) to celebrate its 60th anniversary with a reception in City Hall. Hosted by Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science, Research and Equality Senator...

  • Everything is becoming different as the world changes driven by technological, economic and cultural developments. The Hamburg-based data website Statista has identified the most important trends in 2020 and beyond. Macro trends are medium-term processes of change over a period of ten to 15 years...

  • The Open Lab Hamburg at the Helmut Schmidt University is now using a 3D printer to produce urgently-needed face masks amid the spread of the coronavirus. The race to combat the coronavirus is leading to shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) all over the world. Conventional production...

  • Researchers first have to unlock a highly-secured door 14 metres below the Earth’s surface to unveil the world’s fastest soft X-ray camera called the DSSC detector. The camera is the latest of three developed especially for European XFEL and was installed in Schenefeld this spring. 

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  • A “3D-Druck Campus Lüneburg-West” is to be built in Lüneburg with space for SMEs and and living space for employees. Local representatives presented the plans for the think tank in late April. The Hamburg-based Bionic Production AG, which specializes in 3D printing technology, is already based at...

  • Timing is everything. An idea can be exceptional and apparently have the potential to change the world, but if the time is not right, innovation does not stand a chance. Around 80 to 90 per cent of all attempts at innovation fail. Dr. Reinhold Bauer, a technology historian, noted: “Success is the...

  • N2telligence's fuel cells championing energy supply and preventive fire protection.
  • Innovative measuring system for detecting tsunamis. Hailed among oceanologists and meteorologists the world over, the company Helzel Messtechnik is a giant of measurement techniques, analogue signal processing and high frequency technology.
  • This year’s Earth Overshoot Day, the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources, occurred on July 29, 2019 and earlier than ever before. This is the backdrop against which Mark Buckley, Ambassador of the UN Sustainability...