News about Physics

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen – will be at work from the very beginning. The primary focus will be on learning more…

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections internationally

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen gathered the data from the ice cap in 2015, and this work has now come to fruition in the form of more exact predictions of local climate conditions.

Mathias Jakob Rønne Staunstrup

Title: Measuring the quantum dot induced phase shift of light transmitted through a nanophotonic waveguide Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Hanna Le Jeannic, Nir Rotenberg

Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes

Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where Greenland temperatures rose between 5 and 16 degrees Celsius in decades.

Jose Carlos Lozano Garcia

Title: Regional overestimation of Spain summer temperatures due to Regional Climate Models deficiencies Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

José David Calderón Peña

Title: Marine heatwaves analysis thru climate models based on the CMIP5 program and observational data Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Jon Raunkjær Søndergaard

Title: Study of Elastic Proton-Proton scattering at the LHC Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Markus Thor Rasmussen

Title: Linking Galactic and extragalactic star formation through high-J CO emission Supervisors: Lars E. Kristensen

New study shows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe

Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate. But in a new study,…

Oliver David Damkjær

Title: A study of molecular gas in nearby active galactic nuclei with Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment, APEX Supervisors: Marianne Vestergaard, Lars Kristensen

Ruth Julia Ladwig

Community Earth System Model climate under Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time

For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland's ice sheet that are so large and well preserved that they can be seen with the naked eye. The fossils reveal several million years of details abou…

Jacob Bundgaard Nielsen

Title: Heavy Neutral Lepton Detection in the Tau Channel Supervisor: Stefania Xella

IceCube confirms a 60-year-old prediction from Niels Bohr Institute

Scientists from Niels Bohr Institute are part of an international collaboration observing resonant interactions of high-energy neutrinos in Antarctica. The observation confirms a prediction made by Nobel laureate Sheldo…

Danmark lander på Mars

Forskere og studerende fra bl.a. Niels Bohr Institutet var ligesom resten af science-teamet med på sidelinjen under landingen af Perseverance på Mars den 18. februar 2021, og siden da har de arbejdet intenst med tjekke,…

Simon Refshauge Pabst

Title: Towards Spin-Multiphoton Entanglement from a Quantum Dot Supervisors: Peter Lodahl, Alexey Tiranov

PICE Copenhagen joins large scale joint effort in the arctic within the Danish Commonwealth

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has awarded just below 37 million kr to a targeted effort to investigate the significance of climate change in the arctic environment.

Prominent professor named as Head of Scientific Research at Denmark’s National Centre for Climate Research

Floods, cloudbursts, heatwaves; the climate of the future will be more extreme. On assuming the position of Head of Scientific Research at the National Centre for Climate Research at DMI on 1 March 2021, renowned…

Are we alone? UCPH researchers hold their breath ahead of Mars landing

Traces of prehistoric life will be the ultimate goal as the NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars tonight. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have contributed several important elements to the mission.

Are we alone? UCPH researchers hold their breath ahead of Mars landing

Traces of prehistoric life will be the ultimate goal as the NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars tonight. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have contributed several important elements to the mission.

Sea level will rise faster than previously thought

NBI researchers have constructed a new method of quantifying just how fast the sea will react to warming. The level of the sea is monitored meticulously, and we can compare the responsiveness in models with historical…

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the first few billion years of galaxy evolution, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James…

The Catcher in the Ice

A new device used to extract gas trapped in ice cores by sublimation will shave hours off the time needed by previous versions of the technology. It will use a light source with a more suitable wavelength, which will…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…