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Inks containing lead were likely used as drier on ancient Egyptian papyri

Analysing 12 ancient Egyptian papyri fragments with X-ray microscopy, University of Copenhagen…

Coronavirus helper: NBI physicists develop powerful tool to predict the spread of COVID-19

How extensive should a shutdown be when a new COVID outbreak occurs? Should testing capacity be…

Albert Schliesser awarded fellowship at the Optical Society of America

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honor…

Irene Tamborra receives KIF Prize 2020

The Danish Network for Women in Physics (KIF) has awarded the 2020 honorary prize to Associate…

QUANTUM OPTICS:

Photon turnstile brings order to light

With the creation of a turnstile for light in glass fibers, quantum optics researchers from Germany…

Charles Marcus honoured with the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science is awarding an H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in…

Quantum research:

Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects

A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in entangling two very different…

Study delivers new knowledge about what causes thunderstorms and cloud bursts

Thunderstorms often provoke violent cloud bursts that can result in devastating flooding. But what…

Quantum physics

Tomorrow’s pharmaceuticals could be discovered by quantum simulators

Trial and error define today’s approach to developing new pharmaceutical drugs. But with their…

Villum Experiment grants for two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two young researchers at the Niels Bohr Insitute are among the beneficiaries for the Villum…

Quantum computing:

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing

Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closel…

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY:

Extracting order from a quantum measurement finally shown experimentally

For more than a century, physicists have been aware of the link between the disorder in a system,…