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Comparison of three different measuring devices of ammonia and evaluation of their suitability to assess animal welfare in pigs

Witt, J., Krieter, J., Schröder, K., Büttner, K., Hölzel, C., Krugmann, K. & Czycholl, I. (2023) Livestock Science. Elsevier Abstract Since negative effects of ammonia (NH3) on health and productivity are known NH3…

Innovative phage therapy project to combat "flesh-eating disease"

In a stride towards combating the rising global threat of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, also known as the “flesh-eating disease”, the Leo Foundation has granted DKK 3,988,469 to a new innovative phage therapy…

Microbiome workshop, 21-24 November 2023

Our collaborator, Sofia Gomes from Leiden University, joined the Silva Nova team at University of Copenhagen...

The patient is always right

You can easily convince the chatbot ChatGPT to agree with incorrect and garbled information. That can be a health threat, especially for vulnerable groups, according to researchers.

Visiting The Yukawa Institute

Vitor Cardoso is a Visiting Professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he will work on black hole spectroscopy and environmental effects and establish new collaborations with researchers at the…

Henrik's 60th Birthday

We celebrated Henrik's 60th birthday, where we had many greetings from colleagues around the world. There were also some presentations from previous and current students of Henriks, as well as colleagues from the…

Kathrine Hyun Kjærgaard Pedersen

Renewable energy and the green transition

New EU-funded project will explore how AI shapes scientific knowledge

Et nyt projekt finansieret af Det Europæiske Forskningsråd vil forstå effekten af kunstig intelligens på skabelsen og udbredelsen af videnskabelig viden.

Reflections on the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2023

Three students studying Disaster Risk Management - Katharina Bucsits, Madeline Ewbank and Christos Tsampoulatidis - attended HC Berlin in-person and share their takeaways on key themes below.

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

Smog from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen heads straight into living rooms

A large amount of the heavy automobile pollution from Copenhagen’s Bispeengbuen thoroughfare goes straight into people's homes. This, according to a study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. A sensor…

25 Students Join Forces to Reshape Tech Policy

The CPH Tech Policy Youth Committee has now been formed – with 25 students ready to engage in the field of tech policy.

Behavior problems in dogs—An assessment of prevalence and risk factors

The aim of this questionnaire study was to investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for dog behavior problems by analyzing the responses of a representative sample of Danish dog owners.

Panel discussion on digital dependencies at Tech Policy Days

Last Friday DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel discussion on digital dependencies held as part of the Tech Policy Days and the launch of the Tech Policy Youth Committee

Sofus Laguna Kristensen

Narrow linewidth superradiant lasing with cold88Sr Supervisor: Jörg Helge Müller

The genomic secrets to how the muskox mastered living on the edge

At the end of the last Ice Age, many iconic species became extinct - including the steppe bison, the woolly rhinoceros, the Irish elk, and the dire wolf. However, one Ice Age relict, perfectly adapted to the harsh…

Valeriy Novikov

Entangled states of light and atomic spin oscillators for quantum noise reduction in Gravitational Wave Detectors Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs. Using 700 years’ worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists at the University of…

AI finds formula on how to predict monster waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs. Using 700 years’ worth of wave data from more than a billion waves, scientists at the University of…

Axel Christfort and Tijs Slaats won the Process Discovery Contest

Process discovery algorithms analyse event logs to produce human-readable models that describe the behaviour captured in the log, for example how people order the activities of their work. The Process Discovery Contest,…

Conversations at Niels Bohr Office

How about we take some of the most profound thinkers of our time and we talk about science? No cuts, no editing, after all, as Seinfeld - one of the leading philosophers of our century - said "The subject should resolv…

Do you find work using an app or an online platform?

The GIG-OSH research project is conducting a large survey and is searching for respondents among platform workers

NBI Spin-out enterprise receives prestigious tech-transfer award

QDevil, a quantum technology spin-out enterprise from the Niels Bohr Institute, has been awarded “The Technology Transfer Prize 2024” from German Physical Society. (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)