It's official: The world's fastest movie has been shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists FLASH with the fastest movie ever made, with a mere 50 femtoseconds interval between two frames. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second. In numbers: The two images are separated by just 0.000 000 000 000 05 seconds – this is 800 billion times faster than a feature film. On Thursday, Professor Stefan Eisebitt from the Technische Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin will present the record slow motion at the DESY light sources users’ meeting. As the film motif for the demonstration of the technique his group chose a micro model of the Brandenburg Gate, spanning only a few micrometres (millionths of a metre).

Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH produced fastest movie on earth

RWE Deutschland, Nexans and KIT launch “AmpaCity” project to highlight advantages of super-conductors: the world’s longest superconductor system to replace inner-city high-voltage cable

World’s Longest Superconductor Cable

KIT Climate Researchers Studied Ozone Hole Formation - Results in “Geophysical Research Letters“

Low Temperatures Enhance Ozone Degradation above the Arctic

Onboard the RV METEOR Geophysicists from Kiel together with partners from Germany, Albania, Croatia, Italy and Montenegro are conducting the first fundamental examination of the lithosphere below the southern Adriatic Sea. The aim of the expedition is to improve the risk assessment of natural hazards in the region.

How dangerous is the Adriatic Sea?

Neuherberg, January 16, 2012. The activity of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) in brain cells of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorders may be increased by treatment with antipsychotic medication. Scientists of the Helmholtz Zentrum München show in the current issue of PLoS ONE that drugs such as valproic acid may influence HERV expression likely by inducing epigenetic alterations.

Antipsychotic Drugs Increase the Activity of Endogenous Retroviruses in Humans