News about Physics

New professor wants to make history of physics useful for physics research 

The history of physics can help physicists understand their work and their place in society, says Professor Richard Staley, who is giving his inaugural lecture on March 31st.

The brightest explosion ever seen

A particularly bright Gamma-ray burst was recently detected by several space telescopes, and a team of scientists led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center measured the exact distance to the burst.

Kristoffer Kvist

Title: Transport Properties and Derived Effects of Neutrals in Turbulent Edge Plasma Supervisor: Troels Haugbølle

Martin Asbjørn Krehbiel

Title: Single photon sources and applications Supervisors: Leonardo Midolo, Mikkel Mikkelsen, Beatricie da Lio

Bjarke Brask Nielsen

Title: Propagtion of blobs in NORTH - A study of NORTH Using Langmuir probes Supervisors: Peter Ditlevsen, Stefan Kragh Nielsen

Intergalactic gas brings supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies to life

Black holes become active and grow by consuming gas captured from other galaxies. This is the finding of a new study from University of Copenhagen researchers, and shows a clear connection between the evolution of…

Intergalactic gas brings supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies to life

Black holes become active and grow by consuming gas captured from other galaxies. This is the finding of a new study from University of Copenhagen researchers, and shows a clear connection between the evolution of…

Sarah Pearson to join DARK

After spending 10 years abroad Sarah Pearson is returning to the Niels Bohr Institute.

Jonas Dornonville de la Cour

Title: A Massively Parallel Lockstep Pipeline For Full Isomerspace Optimisation Supervisors: Markus Jochum and James Avery

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…

Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new…

Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space

When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new…

Does ice in the Universe contain the molecules making up the building blocks of life in planetary systems?

If you want to build a habitable planet, ice, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur. These elements are part of the atmosphere around planets and part of molecules like sugar, alcohols and simple amino acids as…

Josephine Gondán Kande

Title: An analysis of weather systems under certain flow patterns in the atmosphere for our latitudes. Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Camille Papon

Photonic circuits with multiple quantum dots -Towards scalable operation of deterministic single-photon sources Supervisors: Prof. Peter Lodahl & Assoc. Prof. Leonardo Midolo

Early galaxy formation caught in the act with James Webb

Astronomers from the Cosmic Dawn Center have unveiled the nature of the densest region of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space telescope in the early Universe.

Danish quantum physicists make nanoscopic advance of colossal significance

In a new breakthrough, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now…

Sune Halkjær & Jonathan Ortved Melcher

Title: Understanding millennial-scale climate change with simple dynamical systems. Supervisor: Sune Olander Rasmussen

The highest Greenland temperatures in 1000 years

Recent high temperatures on the ice sheet in central and northern Greenland lies are unique, when compared to 1000 years of reconstructed climate conditions on the ice sheet.

Anna Maria Klüssendorf

Title: Bipolar Phasing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glacial Period Supervisor: Anders Svensson

Eva Maria Gonzalez Ruiz

Single-photon sources as a key resource for developing a global quantum network Supervisor: Prof. Anders S. Sørensen

Anna Ida Katharina Kirchner

Title: North Atlantic Circulation Variability and Teleconnections to Surface Climate Conditions in CMIP6 Models Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Christian Michelsen

Biological Data Science - Ancient genomics, anesthesiology, epidemiology, and a bit in between Principal Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen, NBI Co-supervisor: Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Globe Institute

Cells use mechanical principles to integrate within existing tissues, new study shows

A new interdisciplinary study reveals how new cells join a tissue by reading mechanical information from the neighboring tissue. They use cellular fingers called filopodia to touch the neighboring cells to open up the…