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Rounded stones on Mars evidence of flowing water

Observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have revealed areas with gravel and pebbles that are characteristic of a former riverbed. Researchers, including members of the Niels Bohr Institute, have analysed their...

Andreas Næsby Rasmussen

Optomechanincs with Semiconductor Nanomembranes Supervisor: Eugene Polzik

Jonas A. Haller

Title: Carbon isotopes of methane during the Medieval Climate Anomaly Supervisors: Reto Knutti and Thomas Blunier

Today's global warming follows more than 1000 years of colder climates

A new international study of past climate shows that the global temperature was getting colder and colder for more than 1000 years until the year 1900, after which global warming raised the temperature significantly in…

Researchers close to finding habitable planets

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Aarhus University are part of a team that has discovered a planetary system with five small planets of which two are super-Earth sized and lie in the habitable zone.

Denmark contributing to the world's largest telescope for searching for life in the unive

The Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and DTU space are investing at total of 37 million kroner in a new telescope, which will be called the European Extremely Large Telescope,…

Most distant Type Ia supernova observed

In the quest to find the most distant supernova, researchers have broken the record and observed a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago. This was in the early youth of the universe when it was evolvin…

Birger Lindberg Møller Appointed Corresponding Member of Australian Academy of Sciences

After decades of close collaborations with the scientific environment in Australia, Director of Center for Synthetic Biology Birger Lindberg Møller has been named Corresponding Member by the Australian Academy of…

Planck satellite explores the infancy of the universe

Using new data from the Planck satellite, researchers can now show that the universe is not expanding as fast as previously thought and the universe is 80 million years older than we thought.

Significant contribution to sea-level rise

Glaciers at the edge of Greenland which are not connected to its huge ice sheet, or can be clearly separated from it, are contributing to sea-level rise much more than previously thought.

More hurricane surges in the future

How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, will there be as a result of global warming? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute show that there will be a tenfold…

Rasmus Anker Pedersen

Arctic Warming - The Effect of a Reduced Sea Ice Cover on the Vertical Structure of Warming Supervisors: Peter L. Langen, DMI and Eigil Kaas

Greenland ice cores reveal warm climate of the past

New research from the NEEM ice core drilling project in Greenland shows that the warm Eemian period - 130,000 and 115,000 years ago was warmer than previously thought.

Christian Caeser

Measurement of Hard Double-Parton Interactions in Z → ll + 2 jet Events with the ATLAS Detector at √s = 7 TeV Supervisor: Peter Hansen

Rastin Matin

Towards Continuous Cavity-Enhanced Nonlinear Spectroscopy in Strontium

Marco Tommaso Manzoni

A SINGLE PHOTON TRANSISTOR REALIZED BY A THREE-LEVEL LADDER ATOM IN A CAVITY

Nir Kampel

Forward and backward scattering experiments in ultra-cold Rubidium atoms Academic Supervisors: Eugene S. Polzik and Jörg H. Müller

Simon Heisterkamp

R-Hadron Search at ATLAS

Martin Spangenberg

Calorimeter calibration and search for R-hadrons at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen

Eran Kot

Efficient interfacing of light and surface plasmon polaritons for quantum optics applications Academic supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Erik Warming Andersen

A Technique for Continuous Detection of Drill Liquid in Ice Cores Supervisors: Anders Svensson and Paul Vallelonga

Bjarke Takashi Røjle Christensen

Clock laser system for a Hg optical lattice clock Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Emil Zeuthen

Extending cavity-mechanical cooling via a hot LC electrical Circuit & Framework for electromechanical coupling calculations Supervisor: Eugene Polzik

Majbritt Westring Sørensen

Evaluation of the 20th Century Reanalysis for the Greenland area - using meteorological observations and ice core data Supervisor: Bo M. Vinther