Airbus has announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide including more than 5,000 in Germany. The aviation industry is facing threats to its survival in the wake of the corona crisis. The job cuts are likely to hit Hamburg, the largest Airbus plant in Germany, and the world’s third largest civil...

Visitors to Simone Techert and Stephan Roth at DESY’s particle accelerator are required to wear heavy, protective headphones in addition to the now ubiquitious masks. Research at the PO3 measuring station can be deafening as foils that create the vacuum in the experimental station can explode with a...

The German government and those of the states approved Monday (June 29, 2020) EUR 45.4 million in funds to build the Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI) at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The agreement was reached during a meeting of the Joint Science Conference (Geme...

The Philips campus in Röntgenstraße is gradually coming back to life. The company switched to Working@Home in just a few days in mid March. Only employees working in production and field service engineers, who install and repair medical equipment in hospitals and doctors' practices, continued to...

Companies, universities and research institutions across northern Germany are pooling their expertise to develop their growth potential in AI and healthcare and held their first meeting in late May, a press release said Monday (June 22, 2020). The German government is putting EUR 10 million towards...

Applications are now being accepted for the North German Science Prize (Norddeutschen Wissenschaftspreis) endowed with EUR 250,000. The North German Conference of Science Ministers (NWK) honours "outstanding scientific projects" involving scientists from at least two northern German states and is...

Transgender people in northern Germany can now consult the i2TransHealth telehealth website set up by the Interdisciplinary Transgender Care Center Hamburg (ITHCCH) at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), a press release said Thursday (May 7, 2020). The site hopes to improve the health...