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Laser Stabilization With Laser Cooled Strontium

Insulating layer of air above the Greenland ice sheet reduces precipitation

The Earth’s climate has been warming, but even though the Greenland ice sheet is melting rapidly in the coastal regions, there are large parts of the ice sheet where there has hardly been any melting on the surface.

Salts in the brain control our sleep-wake cycle

Danish research is behind a new epoch-making discovery, which may prove decisive to future brain research. The level of salts in the brain plays a critical role in whether we are asleep or awake. This discovery may be o…

Superfast light source made from artificial atom

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted theoretically in 1954. Superfast light sources can be used, for example, in lase…

Massive investment: From theoretical quantum physics to usable quantum technology

In a major new effort to translate quantum physics into practical quantum technology, the Innovation Fund Denmark has therefore invested 80 million kroner in a nationwide project involving three universities.

Biotech breakthrough: Sunlight can be used to produce chemicals and energy

New publication in Nature Communications

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has been elected as vice president of the CERN Council.

3 Questions for the Professor

The EUSynBioS series "3 Questions For" features Professor Birger Lindberg Møller

Søren Frimann

Evolution of Deeply Embedded Protostars Simulations meet Observations Academic Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Jes Kristian Jørgensen

Climate variations analysed 5 million years back in time

When we talk about climate change today, we have to recognise the natural variations to be able to distinguish them from the human-induced changes. Researchers from the NBI have analysed the natural climate variations…

Protected Majorana states for quantum information

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize computation, cryptography, and simulation of quantum systems. However: quantum states are fragile, and so must be controlled without being measured.

Anders Paaske Drachmann

DUST PRODUCTION IN LATE-TYPE HIGH-MASS STARS THE SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE ISM Supervisor: ANJA C. ANDERSEN

MIKKEL JUHL HOBERT

THE ROLE OF CORE COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE IN THE CONTEXT OF DUST PRODUCTION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE Supervisor: DARACH WATSON

Physicist Peter Lodahl receives prestigious EliteForsk Award

Peter Lodahl, professor of quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the prestigious Danish elite researcher award, the EliteForsk Award 2016. Peter Lodahl works with…

Large meteorite exhibited during the winter holidays

The Geological Museum in Copenhagen now exhibits a big piece of the meteorite that landed in a parking lot in Herlev Saturday night at 22 o’clock on February 6 2016. More meteorite pieces have already been sent for…

Dark Cosmology Centre in hunt for gravitational wave sources

Today it was announced that gravitational waves, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, have been directly detected for the first time and astrophysicists from the Niels Bohr Institute’s Dark…

New research centre DABAI will create innovation through Big Data

In a large alliance with Danish universities, public and private organisations, the Computer Science Department at University of Copenhagen has engaged in a new data research centre, DABAI, which will provide research…

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN.

Disordered proteins could hide secret to develop crops with high stress resistance

A group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen will unveil the mysteries of disordered proteins thanks to a 7 million kr grant from the Villum Foundation Young Investigator Program. Unravelling their unusual…

Hannah Kleppin

Unforced climate transitions as a scenario for Dansgaard-Oeschger events Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Markus Jochum

Gabija Kiršanske

Electrical control of excitons in semiconductor nanostructures: from quantum dots in photonic-crystal devices to the exciton Mott transition in coupled quantum wells Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl and Assoc. Prof. Søren…

The solar system’s ninth planet in sight

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet in our own solar system that we have never seen. It has long been known that the small dwarf planet Sedna moved in a…

Heidi Lundgaard Sørensen

A WAVEGUIDE PLATFORM FOR COLLECTIVE LIGHT-ATOM INTERACTION Principal supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik Additional supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Jürgen Appel and Assoc. Prof. Jörg H. Müller

Georgios Magdis receives grant from Villum Foundation

Georgios Magdis, an assistant professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, has received a grant of five million kroner from the Villum Foundation’s Young Investigator Programme.