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New ERC Synergy Project to Pave the Way for Future Photonic Quantum Technology

Researchers from three European universities join forces to develop scalable quantum hardware based on quantum dots.

Ny natur/teknologi-indsats skal gøre klimaundervisningen nærværende og konkret

Nyt undervisingsprojekt skal udvikle virkelighedsnær klimaundervisning med afsæt i skolernes lokale natur.

Can AI understand culture, biology and irony? Four research projects receive millions in funding

Can language models learn to understand culture and irony? How do language models actually arrive at the answers they give?

Climate Justice at the University: Integrating Struggles for Liberation

Universities are not simply places for learning and research but are also centers of power and influence that can shape society. Historically, the Western model of the university was originally designed to serve wealthy…

Three new toad species skip the tadpole phase and give birth to live toadlets

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for having offspring away from water? Skipping the tadpole phase altogether…

Business Collaboration: NQCP and the POEM Technology Center

A collaboration between the Niels Bohr Institute and the French RIBER gives Denmark a place in the supply chain when it comes to the microchips of the future.

NQCP and Japan’s Q-STAR advance industry collaboration

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), based at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Quantum STrategic industry…

Introducing new cats to multi-cat households

Cohabiting domestic cats may experience stress if there are conflicts between them.

Responding to questions on treatment for post-operative pain

Ethical question of the month - August 2025 You are a companion animal practitioner who is performing an intake examination on a senior dog. You work in a small community, and the owner is moving the animal to your care…

Rector:” We want to bolster Denmark for the age of AI”

The University of Copenhagen launches a new AI Package aimed at helping Denmark and Europe harness the potential of artificial intelligence in a responsible and sustainable way — for the benefit of many.

Alejandro Vigna-Gomez receives a Reintegration Fellowship awarded by the Carlsberg Foundation

Alejandro Vigna-Gomez received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2019 from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in England. He then joined the Niels Bohr Institute to pursue…

Loss, Damage, and Justice in Global Climate Policy

For 30 years, heads of state and diplomats have met at the Conference of the Parties (COP), to negotiate solutions to urgent climate challenges. Usually, coverage of the conferences celebrates successfully signed…

Symposium Recap: Vector-borne Diseases in a Changing World

Local and international researchers and professionals gathered in the historic Festauditorium at the University of Copenhagen for an international symposium on the challenges and opportunities related to vector-borne…

RASOPTA Updates 2025

RASOPTA (Recirculated Aquaculture Systems Optimization for Production and Training in Aquaculture) officially concluded in August 2025, marking the end of its 4-year run.

Reconstructing maize domestication

Assistant Professor Jazmín Ramos Madrigal has been awarded a prestigious grant for her project “Reconstructing the chronology of selection during maize domestication through genotype imputation of ancient genomes.”

Where is my tree? Virtue Ethics as a Pathway to Reduce Loss of Place and Animal Suffering

Paper written by Sabrina Brando, Mickey Gjerris. Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research, published 24 October 2025

Could peptides offer safer alternatives for plant protection?

Denmark is leading the world in peptide usage, particularly in the healthcare sector. Explainer by PhD student Kitzia Y. Molina-Zamudio.

It stays in the family – Villum grant for Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen

Siblings and professors Susanne and Peter Ditlevsen receive Villum Synergy grant to investigate the critical tipping point of AMOC – Atlantic Meridian Overturning Circulation.

Athene Elizabeth Stuart Demuth

Title: Modeling the evolution of crystal orientation fabrics in an Antarctic ice shelf Supervisors: Nicholas Rathmann and Aslak Grinsted

Lift Maintenance at ACF – Autumn 2025

The lifts in Section 10 and Section 16 at the Animal Core Facility will undergo maintenance in the coming months. Noise disturbances are expected, and sensitive experiments should be avoided.

Important phenomenon discovered in the Arctic – could boost marine life

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible. This phenomenon could have implications for the food chain and the…

Simulating Nature: A New Quantum Leap in Thermal Physics

Better batteries, cleaner energy and smarter medicine design: This could be the result of a new quantum algorithm that helps computers simulate how materials behave at low temperatures.

Paris Agreement could help world avoid 57 hot days each year, study finds

Emmanuel Raju and Nick Baumgart from the Department of Public Health contribute to an important study on Ten Years of Paris Agreement and growing concerns of heatwaves and impacts on global health.

The anomalous metal – new light on the strange behavior of quantum fluctuations between competing states of matter

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation – creating an “impossible”, strange state between the two mutually exclusive states.