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Super-bright supernova with extreme burst of gamma radiation

Astronomers from NBI have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long lasting gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts are in rare cases observed in connection with supernovae, which are the

Super-bright supernova with extreme burst of gamma radiation

Astronomers from DARK have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long lasting gamma-ray burst. Gamma-ray bursts are in rare cases observed in connection with supernovae, which are the

Volcanic eruptions are important for world climate

Large volcanic eruptions release huge clouds of ash and acid into the atmosphere. These clouds spread across the globe and block out the Sun, resulting in a colder climate for decades afterwards. Climate researchers hav…

Christine Pepke Pedersen

Characterizing thermal properties of tapered nano fibers Supervisors: Jörg H. Müller & Jürgen Appel

Gorm Aske Krohn Galster

ATLAS Trigger: Preparation for Run II

Risk of major sea level rise in Northern Europe

Global warming leads to the ice sheets on land melting and flowing into the sea, which consequently rises. New calculations by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute show that the sea level in Northern Europe may ris…

Morten Herskind

Cavity QED in Ultra-Cold Strontium Atoms Supervisor: Jan Westenkær Thomsen

New Greenland ice core drilled through the Renland ice cap

An international research team led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have drilled an ice core through the ice cap on the Renland peninsula in the Scoresbysund fjord in Eastern Greenland in…

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once again in full swing and is colliding protons at record energies. This is after a break of more than two years to rebuild…

Research station moved nearly 500 km across the Greenland ice sheet

The entire research station NEEM has been moved 465 km across the Greenland ice sheet on skis to the new camp EGRIP, where there will be a future international drilling camp and a gateway to research programmes in East

Johannes Zabl

Emission line imaging and spectroscopy of distant galaxies Supervisors: Johan P. U. Fynbo and Cédric Ledoux

Peter Lodahl receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

Peter Lodahl, professor and head of the Quantum Photonics research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has received a large and prestigious grant from the European Research Council, the ERC Advanced Grant.

Congratulations to Alexandra Messerli

Congratulations to Alexandra Messerli who succesfully defended her PhD thesis at Centre for Ice and Climate on May 06, 2015 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Jonathan Winfield Rheinlænder

Interhemispheric climate variability in a pre-industrial control simulation of CCSM4 Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Beginning of the field season 2015

From end April 2015 you can follow two exciting field campaigns in Greenland - EGRIP and RECAP

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos, which zip right through the entire globe. The giant IceCube experiment at the South Pole can detect when there is a collision between neutrinos and atoms in th…

New blood test can predict future breast cancer

By analysing a simple blood sample, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in predicting if a woman will get breast cancer within two to five years. The method – a metabolic blood profile – is still…

Mars might have liquid water

Researchers have long known that there was water in the form of ice on Mars. Now, new research from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is liquid water close to the surface of Mars.

Prestigious Human Frontiers Science Program grant goes to DynaMo researcher Hussam Nour-Eldin

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) has awarded one of their highly competitive Young Investigator grants to plant molecular biologist Hussam Nour-Eldin from the University of Copenhagen and two international…

Anna-Sofie Köhn Zahl

Investigating the FeII/MgII-ratio as a possible metallicity tracer in high redshift Quasars Supervisor: Marianne Vestergaard

Karen Pardos Olsen

OBSERVING AND SIMULATING GALAXY EVOLUTION - from X-ray to millimeter wavelengths Supervisors: Sune Toft and Thomas Greve

Valentina Zaccolo

Charged-Particle Multiplicity Distributions over Wide Pseudorapidity Range in Proton-Proton and Proton-Lead Collisions with ALICE

Anja Andersen gives this year's Rosseland Lecture

April 8th 2015, Anja Andersen gave this year's Rosseland lecture about her research at DARK about cosmic dust in the interstellar medium. The Rosseland Lecture is held annually by the Institute of Theoretical…

Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water

Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the…