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Is the corona pandemic supporting or crowding out the attention towards green transition?

New grant: Researchers from Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) will investigate how the corona crisis affects the climate change debate on three major social media platforms in Scandinavia.

3D breakthrough: Now anyone can print an interactive model of the brain

A new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen allows anyone to print interactive 3D objects. These might include models of the brain, to be used as educational tools.

CLIMACCESS project covered by Ghanaian television

Richard Kofie and Albert Allotey from partner CSIR-INSTI take part in a broadcast from GBC about the hazards and challenges of flooded roads and infrastructure in Accra.

Happy birthday to Hubble Space Telescope

The Cosmic DAWN Center at the Niels Bohr Institute is pleased to wish the Hubble Space Telescope a happy birthday celebrating 30 years in orbit!

Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivity

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have discovered a new way of developing topological superconductivity that may provide a useful route toward the use of Majorana zero modes as the foundation of qubits for…

Researchers have found the queen of supernovas: Shines brighter than any previously found

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, have discovered the queen of all supernovas. A stellar explosion twice as bright as any run-of-the-mill supernova. An unprecedented observation, according to…

New Danish and Icelandic Ocean Research Center

New ocean research center opens at the University of Copenhagen with support from the Carlsberg Foundation. The center is led by Professor Katherine Richardson from the GLOBE Institute.

Kasper Tølløse

Development and implementation of a neural network based PBL turbulence parameterization scheme Supervisor: Eigil Kaas

Artificial intelligence to predict corona-patients' risk of needing ventilators

Experts at the University of Copenhagen have begun using artificial intelligence to create computer models that calculate the risk of a corona patient’s needing intensive care or a ventilator. The new initiative is bein…

Survey postponed due to Corona

The extensive survey planned for the four settlements and scheduled and prepared to run in Maj-June have been postponed due to Corona virus restrictions.

Magdalena Maria Otap

Title: Creating and Testing Astronomy Teaching Packages for an Online Ressource Supervisors: Johan Peter Uldall Fynbo, Marianne Achiam

Quantum-entangled light from a vibrating membrane

Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,…

Sarah Pearson receives the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

Former Niels Bohr Institute student, Sarah Pearson, has just been awarded one of the most prestigious research fellowships in astrophysics, the so-called Hubble Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded annually by NASA…

SODAS-project to study social networks by using data from mobile payment transactions

SODAS researchers David Dreyer Lassen and Sune Lehmann have received DKK 19.7 million from VILLUM FONDEN for their project 'Nation-scale social networks'. Using population data and data about mobile payment transactions…

SODAS researchers to be part of team studying our social behavior during the Covid-19 epidemic

As a direct result of the spread of the Corona virus and the acute health crisis in Denmark and the rest of the world, the Carlsberg Foundation grants DKK 25 million to a new Semper Ardens project to investigate behavio…

Jan de Boer

Forward Physics and Scintillating Fibre Trackers at the Large Hadron Collider Supervisor: Jørgen Beck Hansen

Work on the CLIMACCESS survey has begun

After the last round of fieldwork in November, we have now begun formulating the questions for the CLIMACCESS survey and plan the data collection strategy. Click to read more.

New Ice Core Storage facility at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Official inauguration on 11 March

The researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, are world leading in climate research based on ice cores. The ice core research at the institute dates back slightly more than 50 years and takes it…

Isabella Chi Gieseler Cortzen

A view into the interstellar medium of galaxies across cosmic time Supervisors: Associate Professor Georgios Magdis and Professor Sune Toft

Quantum technology in fibre-optic networks will protect against hacks

A new research project and nearly DKK 18 million (€2.4 million) from Innovation Fund Denmark will transform 15 years of quantum research at the University of Copenhagen into commercial products for unhackable encryption…

Size does matter: People with longer thumbs mistype on their phones more often

People with long thumbs have a tougher time hitting the right phone keys. According to a recent study from the University of Copenhagen, thumb length accounts for 12 percent of touch errors on smart phones.

Coincidences influence the onset and ending of ice ages

An analysis of the so called climate spectrum shows why the ice ages have not behaved precisely as the models predict. A large element of coincidence is involved when an ice age begins or ends, the analysis shows. Peter…

New scientific paper on the spatial extension of the Accra agglomeration

Data on the size and extension of Accra is important for assessing the mobility and accessibility consequences of flooding. This CLIMACCESS paper compares different estimates from literature, discusses the differences i…

Janani Venkatesh

An improved Gas-CFA system for methane measurements and preliminary results from the Dye-3 ice core Supervisor: Thomas Blunier