What can we do to stop climate change? Why has so little of it been implemented so far? And why does science not always get through to politics? Elmar... more
An international team of researchers from Germany, UK and Canada with participation of the University of Potsdam, has found that two of the worlds... more
The solar cells of the future are made of organic material as they can be produced very inexpensively using printing technologies. Physicists at the... more
They are super-fast, rich in energy and are created when particles from space hit the Earth - neutrons are omnipresent and usually penetrate matter... more
On the corona pandemic – contributions from the University of Potsdam Vittoria Sposini from Italy and Samudrajit Thapa from India are PhD students in the Theoretical Physics Group of Prof. Ralf Metzler at the Institute... more
Perhaps it was a sign: Markus Gühr grew up in Gießen. As a boy he used to play in the town’s old cemetery, very close to the place where Wilhelm... more
It is a step into a new dimension. The search for time-dependent phenomena in space is in full swing and, with it, the search for cosmic sources of... more
Beginning where others stop and describing the indescribable indefinable are Ralf Metzler’s passions. Statistical mechanics is his hobbyhorse. The... more
