What started as a temporary project will now become a permanent inner-city institution in Darmstadt for the next two years: The SCIENCE POP-UP project, an interactive hands-on exhibition for science enthusiasts of all ages, remains at its location at Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 22 in the long term. This establishes the successful initiative of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR as a long-term point of contact for anyone interested in ...
When thousands of tons of concrete and steel turn into high technology: the new long-term drone-lapse shows seven years of FAIR construction progress—condensed into 1.5 minutes. From the excavators in 2018 to the completed buildings and installation of technical equipment in 2025: floors rise rapidly, and raw structures transform into high-tech laboratories.
Coming up on January 20, 2026, the third and final EDITH Innovation Day will bring together startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), public institutions, and innovation leaders to explore how digital technologies are transforming the way organizations operate. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung is also a partner in the EDITH consortium.
Heat-resistant, radiation-resistant, and industrially manufacturable—these are the essential properties required for the so-called “first wall” of future fusion power plants to withstand the extreme conditions inside a reactor. In the new DINERWA consortium project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) with approximately €11 million, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are collaborating with partners from science and…
In the first half of 2026, the lecture series “Wissenschaft für Alle” of GSI and FAIR will cover a wide range of topics – from the “nursery” of the Universe billions of years ago to the complex living beings we observe on our planet today. 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…
Impressions from 2025: An eventful year lies behind us. This selection of the many outstanding events of 2025 at GSI/FAIR gives just a small insight into the diversity. From excellent experiments and research results and significant progress on the FAIR construction site to events for everybody, we look back on a successful and exciting year.
Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators, among them GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, have achieved a groundbreaking discovery that bridges artificial intelligence and nuclear physics. By applying deep learning techniques, the team identified, for the first time in 25 years, a new double-Lambda hypernucleus. This marks the world’s first AI-assisted observation of such an exotic nucleus — an…
Dr. Guy Leckenby has been awarded the FAIR-GSI PhD Award 2025 for his outstanding doctoral thesis on the study of bound-state beta decay with experiments conducted at the GSI/FAIR Experimental Storage Ring (ESR). His precision measurement of fully-ionized thallium-205 ions aided in resolving a decades-old puzzle about the origin of lead in our solar system and represents a flagship achievement for GSI/FAIR.
Particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European research center CERN create tiny fireballs 100 thousand times hotter than the center of the Sun. The fireballs decay into new, sometimes quite exotic, particles including light atomic nuclei and their antimatter counterparts. Paradoxically, these can be created in - and escape from - the hot and dense environment unscathed even though the bonds holding their constituents together are very ...
