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DESY

A modern building with the illuminated sign "DESY" stands at night, featuring large glass windows and a central circular structure, symbolizing the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, a renowned particle-physics and photon-science laboratory in Hamburg.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, a particle-physics and photon-science laboratory in Hamburg founded in 1959. It now operates European XFEL, an X-ray free-electron laser that fires 27,000 ultra-short pulses a second through a 3.4-kilometre tunnel. The pulses are bright enough to photograph single biomolecules before the X-rays themselves destroy the sample, a technique known as diffraction-before-destruction.

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