News about Science

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)

Clean Sweep: Department of Computer Science takes home three Business Awards

Two researchers and two students from the Department of Computer Science were presented with this year's business and innovation awards from the Faculty of Science.

Commemorative Lecture by Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun

Mette Birkedal Bruun gave the lecture entitled: From Monks to GDPR

The importance of science editors in Danish news

We find it relevant to recognize what we consider important for how our science has been communicated over the years.

#TownsFest Online Symposium

On Thursday 11th January 2024 the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Chemistry Education Research Group will host an online symposium.

CPH Cattle Seminar 2023

On Tuesday 12 December 2023 CPH Cattle held their anual seminar with presentations and discussions about research and strategies related to the cattle sectors challenges.

Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact

Professor Bente Halkier and PhD student Amanda Krog Juvik have together with Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen published the paper "Exploring routinization and reflexivity i…

New partnership with Brazilian funding agency CNPq

Senior postdoctoral fellow in the Strong group, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, has successfully established an international collaborative network in partnership with the Brazilian funding agency CNPq (National Council for…

Systematic review finds gaps in understanding microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates

In a recent preprint titled "Quantitative synthesis of microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates," researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and University of Exeter conducted a…

New beetle species has bottle-opener shaped genitalia: Now that calls for a Carlsberg!

Six new beetle species have been discovered in South America by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Among them is one with a distinctively shaped sexual organ that has led the researchers to name it after globa…

New research: Fivefold increase in the melting of Greenland's glaciers over the last 20 years

In the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, using both satellite imagery and old aerial photos from the Danish National Archives, researchers from the University of Copenhagen firmly establish that Greenland’s…

Most Europeans are reducing their meat consumption, EU-funded survey finds

A pan-European survey, called “Evolving appetites: an in-depth look at European attitudes towards plant-based eating” and funded by the EU’s Smart Protein project, has found that 51% of meat eaters in Europe claim they…

Sensing the signature of life

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have removed a key obstacle for development of extremely sensitive monitoring devices based on quantum technology.

The beginning of the end for Greenland’s last remaining ice shelves

A new study just published in Nature Communications, shows that Greenland’s last stable ice shelves have started to thin and disintegrate, accelerating the global sea-level rise.

5 presentations at FOCS '23 by BARC members and affiliates

FOCS 2023, the 64th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, takes place this week in Santa Cruz, and BARC members as well as affiliates ensure we are well represented.

Five social science projects to investigate green transition

Five projects in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science receive a total of DKK 15.8 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) from the programme supporting independent green research.

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

Food waste prevention in Europe can generate major footprint savings

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate footprint savings that ma…

PhD defense Lena Hermesdorf

On Monday 2 October: Lena Hermesdorf defended her thesis, entitled “Climate change effects on the carbon balance in an arctic tundra plant-soil system - a thesis of snow and fire”.

PhD defense Sebastian Zastruzny

On Thursday 26th October, CENPERM has celebrated the PhD defense by Sebastian Zastruzny. His thesis, entitled “Water flow in the active layer - The dynamics of water movement in a changing environment”

To over-ring or not to over-ring?

Image credit LIGO-Virgo collaboration Strong members Gregorio Carullo and Vitor Cardoso, together with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University, have recently published a [Reply](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20625) t…

Ethicists’ commentary on standards of euthanasia for moribund fish in aquaculture

Ethical question of the month, August 2023 A priority of agriculture and aquaculture veterinarians is to ensure a quick and humane death upon slaughter. In ideal conditions, techniques are constantly monitored, assessed…