GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: 2017.10.17 Neutron star smash shakes universe Scientists have, for the first time, captured gravitational waves as well as light, from two neutro…
NEUTRON STAR MERGER: 2017.10.16 Now we can find out where the heavy elements come from The discovery of a kilonova produced by the collision of two neutron stars brings researchers a big…
Building block of life in Space: 2017.10.03 ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including…
Climate research: 2017.10.03 New generation ESA-satellites capable of revealing future sea level rises NEGIS, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, splits into three gigantic glaciers - holding back ice…
Quantum computer: 2017.10.02 New ’building material’ points toward quantum computers A Danish-American research team has shown that it is possible to produce ‘Majorana particles’ in a…
Star formation: 2017.09.15 Star formation influenced by local environmental conditions Three scientists at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, have carried out extensiv…
Volcanic eruptions: 2017.09.05 Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the…
Major outburst floods: 2017.08.13 Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each…
Malaria research: 2017.08.08 Spying on malaria parasites at -196 Celsius A team of scientists led by postdoc Sergey Kapishnikov from the Niels Bohr Institute has managed to…
Cell: 2017.07.13 The earliest stages of life might be simpler than we thought In the very earliest stages of life, mammalian cells multiply and form the embryo. New research fro…
Quantum physics: 2017.07.13 Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by…
Superconductors: 2017.07.07 Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain…
Award: 2024.12.03 Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy Congratulations to PhD student Pengpei Zhu who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation…
"Kig op" at Videnskab.dk 2024.11.30 Look up in December Read here (in Danish) about Orion and the red giant Betelgeuse in the stellar sky in December.