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Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem

One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, which has used laser light to link a vibrating membrane with cesium atoms.

GREEiNSECT PhD Defence by Afton Halloran

Afton Halloran will be the 1st GREEiNSECT PhD student to defend her thesis

Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked

Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain ironbased materials possess fine superconducting properties. Why? Because the five unbound electrons found in iron...

At the age of 85-year old, Erik Høg is planning a satellite to be launched in 20 years

Erik Høg, who celebrated his 85th birthday earlier this year, has just had his fourth major astrometry project approved, a project that he started in 2013 and one that ESA is now joining. A satellite that will be…

Jeppe Trøst Nielsen

Testing Cosmological Models

Consumer attitudes Technical Brief #3

The technical brief #3 compiles information on studies regarding Kenyan consumers' preference and attitiude and willingness to pay for insect-based food products , investigated under the GREEiNSECT project.

Alexander Pedersen Lind

A Study of Diffractive Scattering with the ATLAS and ALFA Experiment Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Signe Folden Simonsen

Observation of Wave Propagation in Stationary Light Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

GREEiNSECT Technical Brief #2 Farming Systems

The technical brief #2 provides an overview of farming systems for crickets and black soldier fly, currently investigated under the GREEiNSECT project.

Naya Sophie Rye Jørgensen

Investigating Bimodal Variability of the Kuroshio with High Resolution Climate Model Supervisor: Markus Jochum

ALMA Finds Ingredient of Life Around Infant Sun-like Stars

Astronomers, including researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, have used ALMA to observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block…

Andy Morris

A Comparison of Equatorial Undercurrent: POP2 Model and Measurement Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Maria Hammerstrøm

Establishing the host galaxy contribution to spectroscopic data of the nuclear emission of active galactic nuclei Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Congratulations to Troels Bøgeholm Mikkelsen

Congratulations to Troels Bøgeholm Mikkelsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday 17 May 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Congratulations to Lisbeth Tangaa Nielsen

Congratulations to Lisbeth Tangaa Nielsen at Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday 8 May 2017 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Bloom festival

Synbio PhD student Britt Wray talks at Bloom science festival

Six-legged livestock – sustainable food production

Farming crickets for human consumption is less of a burden on the environment than other livestock production systems according to a new study by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Nutrition, Exercise and…

KU researcher with bad climate news won the Danish Research Result of the Year

Gary Shaffer, Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Institute, and Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen from DTU have made the year’s most important scientific discovery, according to the users of Videnskab.dk.

New Ice core drilling in North Eastern Greenland

The first crew of researchers, technicians and students has arrived at the EastGRIP research camp on the Greenland ice cap, flown in by ski-equipped American Hercules planes, where they during the next 4 months will....

Undervisnings- og Forskningsminister Søren Pind besøger CERN

Minister Søren Pind og en dansk ministeriel delegation besøger CERN, tirsdag d. 25. April. Søren Pind får herved lejlighed til at tage et af verdens største forskningsanlæg i direkte øjesyn. Et anlæg som Danmark og Niel…

Huge grant to quantum research

Danish National Research Foundation is willing to donate up to 62 million kroner to a new research centre at the Niels Bohr Institute. The new Centre of Excellence will be named Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy – Q).

New astronomy center will reveal the cosmic dawn

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in close collaboration with DTU Space.

Mike Lauge

dE/dx Measurements in the ATLAS Decector Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Iason Tsiamis

Continuous Wave Single Photon Transistor with Rydberg Atoms Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen