News about Physics

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…

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