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New research to treat acute malnutrition

Researchers from University of Copenhagen and humanitarian organizations have conducted a large study in Burkina Faso in West Africa treating more than 1600 children with acute malnutrition. The study showed that…

Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age

Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the modern ozone hole, led to large-scale changes in

Emil Sørensen Bols

Proton-Proton Central Exclusive Pion Production at √s = 13 TeV with the ALFA and ATLAS detector Supervisor: Peter Henrik Hansen

Henriette Petersen

The search for right-handed neutrinos with the ATLAS experiment Supervisor: Stefania Xella

Mantas Cepulkovskis

Nonlinear photon interactions in waveguides Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Peder Heiselberg

The effect on Agulhas Rings by the Southern Ocean wind stress Supervisor: Markus Jochum

ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy, has been awarded a Starting Grant worth €1.5 million from the European Research Council (ERC).

Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods

The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each representing an astounding mass of energy, equaling up to 240 Hiroshima-bombs. The next may happen as soon as 2018-19.

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