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New project will develop the use of artificial intelligence for interviews

With support from the Villum Foundation, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, SODAS, will help develop the use of artificial intelligence for scientific interviews.

Oral behaviour during riding is associated with oral lesions in dressage horses – A field study

This study included 11 warmblood dressage horses, randomly selected for oral inspection after competition. Five of eleven inspected horses had abrasion of the skin and/or mucosa.

Apps, cartoons and training reduces need to anesthetise kids

A joint research project shows how to reduce the need for anesthetising scanned children by 94 percent.

Julian Curry Robinson-Tait

Cavity Enhanced Phase Measurements and Continuous Atomic Clocks Supervisor: Jörg Helge Müller

The annual Niels Bohr Institute photo

October 7 is the birthday of Niels Bohr, and according to our tradition at the institute, the annual photo of the institute's many employees is taken that morning in front of the institute at Blegdamsvej 17.

Avian Influenza Epidemiology group at UCPH hosted an online seminar, “Nordfugl 2024”

On 4 October 2024, the Avian Influenza Epidemiology group at UCPH hosted an online seminar, “Nordfugl 2024”, with the aim of exchanging information on research and surveillance of avian influenza between the Nordic…

BARC welcomes Prateek Dwivedi

BARC welcomes new Postdoc Prateek Dwivedi to the team.

Leafcutter Ants Domesticated Their Fungal Crops Millions of Years Before Humans - New Genomic Discoveries Reveal How

150 years after leafcutter ants were discovered deep in South American rainforests, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have revealed how these ant farmers achieved crop domestication by decoding the fungal…

New paper: “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms”

In the paper “Analyzing differences between discursive communities using dialectograms,” current and previous DISTRACT researchers Thyge Enggaard, August Lohse, Morten Axel Pedersen and Sune Lehmann introduce a new way…

Pablo Pellon Ricciardi

The regulation of different types of renewable hydrogen in the EU and its member states.

BARC welcomes Mads Vestergaard Jensen

BARC welcomes new PhD student Mads Vestergaard Jensen to the team.

Mastering Meta-Control: From Cognitive Mechanisms to Practical Strategies - DISTRACT Talk by Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen

On Friday the 27th of September, Signe Vangkilde and Rie Kristensen did a DISTRACT Talk where they explored core concepts and mechanisms of attention and control. They also provided research-based insights on ways of…

Quantum researchers come up with a recipe that could accelerate drug development

University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules. Their discovery brings us closer to being able to predict how new…

Quantum researchers come up with a recipe that could accelerate drug development

University of Copenhagen mathematicians have developed a recipe for upgrading quantum computers to simulate complex quantum systems, such as molecules. Their discovery brings us closer to being able to predict how new…

Strain-link: Linking strain-level functional inference and development in the early life microbiome with later disease

Microbes inhabit all types of environments and form complex communities, called microbiomes. The human microbiome has a great impact on host health, which is directly linked to the specific composition and functional…

Vitor Cardoso appointed Center Leader of new Center of Excellence

Danish National Research Foundation appoints Vitor Cardoso Center Leader of new Center of Excellence. The Niels Bohr Institute will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence, the Center of Gravity (CoG). The CoG will bring…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

Center of Gravity (CoG): a new DNRF Center of Excellence at NBI

In 2025, NBI will host a new DNRF Center of Excellence called the Center of Gravity (CoG), to link theory and observations with the primary goal of uncovering the fundamental physics governing the nature of gravity at…

International science journalist visits the Niels Bohr Institute

With an international Maria Leptin journalist scholarship behind him, science journalist Jens Degett will contribute in the coming months by disseminating stories from the Niels Bohr Institute. Until December, he will…

Martin Cramer Pedersen receives Villum Experiment Grant

Active matter systems such as cells, bacteria, and living organisms are characterized by the continuous injection or conversion of energy by its constituents. Such systems are not in thermodynamic equilibrium and…

Troels Petersen joins as Denmark's scientific delegate at CERN

On October 1st 2024 Troels Christian Petersen, a NBI researcher in particle physics for many years, will join as Denmark's CERN scientific delegate.

Event in connection with new report: Let's talk about food waste

On Friday 27 September 2024, in connection with the annual food waste week, the research project Fighting food waste – navigating values, choices and habits organised an event at the University library in Fiolstræde.

Gene Editing Cattle for Enhancing Heat Tolerance: A Welfare Review of the “PRLR‑SLICK Cattle” Case

Pozzebon, M., Guldbrandtsen, B. & Sandøe, P. (2024) Nanoethics. Springer Nature Abstract In March 2022 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a risk assessment of a recent animal gene editing proposal…

Strong at TEONGRAV

Last week, Sept 16-20, La Sapienza University of Rome hosted the first TEONGRAV international workshop on the theory of gravitational waves. TEONGRAV is a collaboration of 11 research groups from across Italy, all…