News about Physics

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…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

Athanasios Anastasiou

Galaxy evolution studies with the new, state of the art, multi-wavelength catalog in the COSMOS field Supervisors: Georgios MAGDIS and Iary DAVIDZON

Ella Jacobsen

Analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of plastics in the Baltic Sea Supervisor: Markus Jochum

David Aaron Soestmeyer

Local temperature reconstruction from gas trapping processes in the Dye 3 ice core from Greenland Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

The Niels Bohr Institute kick starts a new generation of climate scientists

There is a pressing need for skilled climate scientists with excellent insight into advanced mathematical theories as well as the physics of the Earth system. A European scientist training programme, CriticalEarth,…

Lara Möllney

Patterns of Dust-borne Iron Fertilization at the Last Glacial Maximum Supervisor: Markus Jochum

Understanding galaxy evolution

Studying how galaxies evolve takes more than just observing them and noting their properties. A notable part of an astronomer's job is about constructing physical models that explain the observed behavior. Read here how…

Jacob Svensmark

On the nature of dark matter structures and the growth of charged atmospheric aerosols Supervisor: Steen H. Hansen

The Niels Bohr Institute develops calibration target, now on its way to Mars

The calibration target has been developed and manufactured in a collaboration between the researchers, the workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute and local businesses, and supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Ann-Sofie Priergaard Zinck

Surface velocity and ice thickness of the Müller ice cap, Axel Heiberg Island Supervisor: Aslak Grinsted

Major breakthrough: Copenhagen researchers can now achieve 'quantum advantage'

University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a chip that, with financial backing, could be scaled up and used to build the quantum simulator of the future. Their results are now published in Science Advances.

Lasse Stampe Frølich

Title: Controlling Single-Photon Generation With Nano-Mechanical Devices Supervisor: Leonardo Midolo

The climate changed rapidly alongside sea ice decline in the north

This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt climate change during the glacial period. It also documents that the cause of the swiftness and extent of sudden climate…

Caroline Munck Nielsen

Title: Dispersion Measurements and Frequency Comb Generation in A Si3N4 Microring Resonator Supervisors: Jorg Helge Muller, Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen, Martin Romme Henriksen, Jan Westenkær Thomsen

Emmanouil Terzidis

Title: Individual anisotropic planning target volumes (PTV) for lung cancer radiotherapy in deep-inspiration breath hold Supervisors: Jens J. Gaardhøje, Katrin E. Hakansson, Ivan R. Vogelius

The Solar System follows the Galactic standard – but it is a Rare Breed

It turns out that our own solar system in some ways is very rare, and in others very ordinary. It is rare to have 8 planets, but the study shows that the Solar system follows exactly the same, very basic rules for the…