News about Science

Social dialogue in times of crisis

A special edition of the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, edited by Bertil Rolandsson and Anna Ilsøe, examines how Nordic models respond to crises and times of uncertainty

Emergency management in small remote communities in the Nordic countries

Across the Nordic countries, climate change-related incidents will add further strain to the contemporary emergency management system. Climate-related hazards occur more frequently and on a large scale and will thereby…

Strong hosted LISA meeting

The Strong group at the Niels Bohr International Academy hosted the LISA in Copenhagen Meeting from August 9-11, 2023 at the Niels Bohr Institute. The meeting strengthened the interactions between the community…

BARC Retreat 2023

This year our annual BARC retreat took us to KolleKolle by Furesø for a couple of interesting days

European RISE project for Strong

The Strong group is part of a successful European Union RISE project for the exchange of researchers. The project - Einstein Waves - involves the Niels Bohr Institute (PI: Vitor Cardoso), the University of Tubingen in…

Are male students more talented?

In the sciences, talented students are perceived as those who ask quirky questions and are confident and playful. But is the deck stacked in such a way that those who are already privileged win? Men are the ones who mos…

Critical questions on learning from the COVID-19 disaster in India

New study critically analyses the Government of India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster.

Flemming Daniel Fischer

Title: Fast transient detection Supervisor: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo

Jacob Osman Hjortlund

Title: Exploring Demographic Drift of Type Ia SNe and its Impact on Cosmology Supervisor: Radosław Wojtak

Influence of hypoxia and hyperoxia on aquatic microbes, plants and animals

O2 is required by many organisms – but too much or too little can kill them

New research project investigates gender and climate change adaptation in Tanzania

The new project “Himili Pamoja”, which means “adapt together” will investigate what possibilities women and men have for adapting to climate change in rural communities in Tanzania.

Severe impact of past changes in climate and nutrient availability on a lowland tropical rainforest

New study reveals a significant impact of past climate changes and nutrient availability on a lowland tropical rainforest.

Visitors in June/July

The Strong Group had an active summer 2023. In addition to the some 200 participants we hosted in connection with the 3 events that we organized in July and August, we also had the pleasure of hosting the following…

Kevin Urquía

Title: Lepton collider sensitivity to Heavy Neutral Lepton from Left-Right Symmetric Models Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Cotton buds reveal biodiversity in rainforests

Cotton buds reveal biodiversity in rainforests. Read about a study from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Ming Lai Chan

Spin-Photon Interface for Quantum Information Processing Supervisor: Prof. Peter Lodahl

AgroEco-HPM presentation at AU Viborg

Yesterday we presented and discussed the current work, future tasks, and possible collaborations on the development of an infrastructure platform for Daisy with colleges from Aarhus University. We had some very nice,…

Copenhagen’s safest bets for a dry weather bike ride

You have a 25% greater risk of cycling in the rain if you live in Hellerup than if saddling up in Ishøj. Two researchers from the University of Copenhagen and DTU took a closer look at where and when it rains most in an…

Making a Stand for Animals

Peter Sandøe's book review of 'Making a Stand for Animals' by Oscar Horta.

New Postdoc at UCPH

Klara Cecilia Gunnarsen has started in Prof. Lars Stoumann's section.

Daisy 6.41 released on all platforms

Since last full release, we added the spawn/nwaps programs for running multiple simulations in parallel and combining their results, and the hyprop hydraulic model, and the max_WRoot assimilate partitioning parameter to…

Denmark is crawling with the world's most resilient creature

They’re found on Mount Everest, in the deep seas, aboard the International Space Station and thousands of them have even crash landed and been spilled onto the moon. The microscopic water bear has a nearly unfathomable…

Denmark is crawling with the world's most resilient creature

They’re found on Mount Everest, in the deep seas, aboard the International Space Station and thousands of them have even crash landed and been spilled onto the moon. The microscopic water bear has a nearly unfathomable…

Strong art residency: selected artists

Art and science are different ways of expressing our human curiosity and our will to understand the cosmos. This often means dealing with the unknown. The Strong team at the Niels Bohr Institute invited proposals for…