News about Science

Pedro Martínez Saiz

Title: Deterministic wavelet estimation methods in the tie-to-well approach Supervisor: Klaus Mosegaard

Rui Liu

Title: The role of water in pea protein hydration/dehydration, denaturation and degradation Supervisor: Heloisa Nunes Bordallo, Serafim Bakalis

Martin Hoffmann Petersen

Title: Molecular dynamic analysis of quasi-elastic neutron scattering from bulk and confined water Supervisors: Heloisa Nunes Bordallo, Gerald Kneller, Anders Markvardsen, Franz Lang

Xiangyin Tan

Title: Towards improvements in small-angle X-ray scatter- ing data modeling of mesoporous SBA-15 Supervisors: Heloisa Nunes Bordallo, Pedro Leonidas Oseliero Filho

Jiaming Yao

The Optical and Infrared Properties of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies in ALCS Supervisors: Georgios Magdis and Francesco Maria Valentino

Congratulations to Dion Häfner

Congratulations to Dion Häfner at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 11 May 2022, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Dion Häfner

Title: An Ocean of Data - Inferring the Causes of Real-World Rogue Waves Supervisor: Professor Markus Jochum, Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen

Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education welcome Richard Staley

Professor Staley is pursuing projects on climate change and the history of AI as well as the making of modern physics

Scientists discovers new properties of magnetism that could change our computers

Our electronics can no longer shrink and are on the verge of overheating. But in a new discovery from the University of Copenhagen, researchers have uncovered a fundamental property of magnetism, which may become…

Scientists discovers new properties of magnetism that could change our computers

Our electronics can no longer shrink and are on the verge of overheating. But in a new discovery from the University of Copenhagen, researchers have uncovered a fundamental property of magnetism, which may become…

Wildfires: When nature strikes back politically

With support from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, anthropologists will investigate how the extensive rainforest wildfires in 2019 in Amazon politically affected Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.

Telling actual time in ancient rocks

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Copenhagen apply a new technique allowing them to disentangle 500 million-years-old rocks millimeter-by-millimeter, resolving the…

Physical meeting in Copenhagen

FutureArcticLives held its first physical meeting and workshop in Copenhagen hosted by the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO).

CopenHel Workshop

We host the tenths Copenhel workshop jointly with the groups of Dr. Theo Kurten (Helsinki) and Matti Rissanen (Tampera) with many presentations and a lively discussion on atmosferic topics.

Phenomenal raw materials will get Danes to fall in love with plant-based diets

Phenomenal raw materials and ingredients are the way forward if more people are to replace meat products with plant-based alternatives and Denmark is to become a world leading producer of plant-based foods. Today, the…

Phenomenal raw materials will get Danes to fall in love with plant-based diets

Phenomenal raw materials and ingredients are the way forward if more people are to replace meat products with plant-based alternatives and Denmark is to become a world leading producer of plant-based foods. Today, the…

Scientific advance leads to a new tool in the fight against hackers

A new form of security identification could soon see the light of day and help us protect our data from hackers and cybercriminals. Quantum mathematicians at the University of Copenhagen have solved a mathematical riddl…

Pampered pets or poor bastards? The welfare of dogs kept as companion animals

Two key challenges for companion dogs are examined in this paper: 1) unrealistic social demands that can lead to anxiety, depression, and aggression, and 2) ill devised breeding schemes that result in breeding-related…

FOODHAY - collaboration on the foods of the future

Several Danish universities and companies have joined forces to create a joint high-technology laboratory platform FOODHAY. Through new research infrastructure, FOODHAY will contribute to developing healthy and…

New and surprising duality found in theoretical particle physics

A new and surprising duality has been discovered in theoretical particle physics. The duality exists between two types of scattering processes that can occur in the proton collisions made in the Large Hadron Collider at…

New research to detect glaucoma timely

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen receives a grant to launch a project to identify early signs of eye diseases before they develop in the patient.

Inaugural lecture by Christine Schøtt Hvidberg

Congratulations to Christine Schøtt Hvidberg at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who held her inaugural lecture 20 April at HCØ, AUD 4 from 15:00-17:00

Angeliki Christakopoulou

Biological exploration of Mars: Survival and metabolic activity testing of extremophiles exposed to simulated Martian soil and atmosphere, using a Mars environment simulation chamber Supervisors: Uffe Gråae…

Breaking news from the dawn of the universe

Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The international research team is led by astronomers from the University of…