On the occasion of Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Darmstadt, the rainbow flag was raised on the GSI and FAIR campus to promote diversity, acceptance, and visibility. The management opened with a welcome address expressing solidarity with queer people and emphasizing the importance of an open, non-discriminatory work culture. Prior to this, during Pride Month in June, all employees were invited to attend a lecture entitled “Queer in the Workplace: LGBTIQA+ and Intersectionality in the Company.”
The new open-access volume “Hans Joachim Specht — Scientist and Visionary”, published in July 2025 by Springer, honors the life and work of Professor Hans Joachim Specht, who passed away in May 2024 at the age of 87. By tracing Specht’s scientific career and leadership role, it offers an insightful portrait of a physicist who profoundly shaped both the scientific agenda and institutional landscape of modern nuclear and heavy-ion physics in Europe.
A piece of GSI/FAIR's cutting-edge research is scheduled to be launched into space next year: the Biophysics department will be involved in one of the next scientific missions on the International Space Station (ISS) with a highly innovative research project. The “HippoBox” project was successfully reviewed by the German Space Agency at DLR and recently selected for participation in the CELLBOX-4 mission on the ISS. The aim of the project is to use brain organoids (“mini-brains”) to…
GSI/FAIR will continue its popular public lecture series “Wissenschaft für Alle” in a hybrid format in the second term of 2025. Interested parties can either attend the event in the lecture hall of GSI/FAIR following a registration or dial into the broadcast of the event via video conference using an internet-enabled device such as a laptop, cell phone or tablet. The program begins on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, with a lecture by Dr. Christina Will on the use of computer-aided design in the ...
The BASE collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva has achieved a breakthrough in antimatter research: For the first time, the researchers were able to let a single antiproton – the antimatter counterpart of a proton – oscillate between two spin quantum states in a controlled manner for almost a minute. The collaboration includes scientists from numerous international institutions, including researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and…
As part of a summer tour of the state of Hesse, organized by the Hessian State Chancellery, the crew of the frigate Hessen visited the FAIR and GSI campus. The group was welcomed by Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of FAIR and GSI. The participants then attended an introductory lecture providing an overview of the accelerator facilities and experiments, the research results achieved to date, and the construction of the international research center FAIR.
Many visitors took the opportunity during this year’s Heinerfest to explore the den SCIENCE POP-UP by GSI and FAIR in Darmstadt’s city center. Especially on Saturday, July 5, the interactive exhibition was bustling with activity.
With great commitment from all parties involved, the FAIR Council, the highest decision-making body of the international accelerator project FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), met for its regular meeting in Darmstadt on July 8 and 9, 2025. Almost all of the representatives of the international FAIR shareholders met on site to agree on the further key decisions for the commissioning of the unique research facility.
An international team of researchers, led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process nucleosynthesis in measurements conducted at the Canadian research center TRIUMF in Vancouver. At the center of this work are the first mass measurements of three extremely neutron-rich tin isotopes: tin-136, tin-137 and tin-138. The results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
