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Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Zvi Bern receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour, 2024

Zvi Bern is awarded the Niels Bohr Institute of Honour for his remarkable list of scientific achievements in theoretical physics. His association with the Niels Bohr Institute goes back more than 40 years.

Call for abstracts: Extreme heat and health in the context of climate change

The goal of this symposium is to highlight a global health emergency: The impact of extreme heat on public health due to climate change.

Climate crisis pressures the ‘Arctic giant’: Habitats risk disappearing completely

Climate change poses a serious threat to the habitats of the bowhead whale, which may shrink by up to 75 percent by the end of the century.

A 1960s idea inspires NBI researchers to study hitherto inaccessible quantum states

Scientists have created a new way to study the highly volatile quantum states in superconducting vortices, whose existence has been known since the 1960s, but it has been very difficult to verify them directly, until…

Interview with Rico Kongsager

COPE interviews Rico Kongsager, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen and member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. His research focuses on climate resilience in Nordic communities, and…

All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy

Black holes vibrate, like stars, or guitar strings. The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential.

The USE Center seeks visionary leader to transform university science teaching

The USE Center is looking for an experienced discipline-based education researcher to lead the mission of strengthening science education.

Whitsun holiday at the Øresund Aquarium

Come and enjoy fun and exciting activities during the Whitsun holiday and experience sea creatures up close.

Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Environmental Dynamics in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

With the upcoming launch of the LISA mission, scientists will detect gravitational waves at lower frequencies than ever before, and this will bring new data on galactic centres and the monstrous black holes that reside…

Cosmic Waltz

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters shows that electromagnetic observations of stars

Galaxies Best Paper Award

The paper "Key Science Goals for the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope” by the ngEHT collaboration, where Vitor Cardoso was Working Group leader and Yifan Chen Topic Leader, was selected as the winner of the…

Green transition to be “the new normal” for future farmers

The FEAST research project has received DKK 4.75 million from Innovation Fund Denmark, AgriFoodTure and NextGenerationEU to anchor sustainability theory and practice in agricultural education institutions through…

Important: Import/Export Services Unavailable June 23 – July 18

Important Notice: AEM's Import/Export Unit is closed from June 23rd to July 18th due to the summer holiday.

New species named after CMEC researcher

New species of skink has been named in honor of Harith Farooq for his work on reptile fauna.

Center Coordinator retreat 2025

From September 1, 2025, the new Center of Gravity funded by the Danish National Research Foundation will officially start.

DNA from marine sediments reveals millennia of marine mammal occurrences in the Arctic

Utilizing DNA from marine sediment cores, the international team—led by researchers at University of Copenhagen and GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)—reconstructed historical occurrences of marine…

Ox-eye daisy, bellis and yarrow: Flower strips with at least two sown species provide 70 percent more natural enemies of pests

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural enemies of pests by 70 percent. The more flower species, the better the effect, according to a new meta-analysis from the…

Galactic dust reveals hidden patterns in stunning new images from James Webb

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by a Danish bachelor student has uncovered surprising new details about the fine structure of cosmic dust in nearby galaxies.

Sign up for AEM User Meeting

All users of the services provided by the Department of Experimental Medicine (AEM) are invited to attend the first user meeting of 2025.

Ascension Day holiday at the Øresund Aquarium

Come and enjoy fun and exciting activities during the Ascension Day holiday and experience sea creatures up close.

The 5th Scandinavian meeting on gravitational-wave science

The Scandinavian community has been producing exciting results in the field and met for the 5th Meeting on Gravitational Wave Science in Scandinavia on May 15 and 16 at the University of Copenhagen.

First light from student-built radio telescope

During the last six months, academic employee Gaurav Kumar, together with master students Kaj Grimstrup, Jiazhe Li, and Omar Rashdan, have built two radio telescopes. One of them now observed its first light, while the…