NEW ESS LIGHTHOUSE:
New research lighthouse to focus on developing better food and medicine
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University receive a large grant to establish a new research center focusing on the potential of neutron-based methods to revolutionize pharmaceutical and food sciences.
ANTARCTICA:
Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice
It is expected that the 2,800 meter deep ice core drilling down to the bedrock under the Antarctic ice sheet for the first time will reveal crucial details about the earth's climate and the history of the atmosphere more than 800,000 years ago.
THE FIRST GALAXIES:
Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies
An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the Big Bang.
GLACIER FLOOD:
One of world's largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland
For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks.
BLACK HOLES:
Dance of electrons measured in the glow from exploding neutron-stars
The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it possible to measure the microscopic, physical properties in these cosmic events.
Astrophysics:
"Islands" of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding.
Physics at the University of Copenhagen
At the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, we research and teach within a broad spectrum of physics areas: Quantum computers and quantum communication, astrophysics, particle physics, computational physics, solid state physics, climate and geophysics and biophysics.
