Niels Bohr Institute

Happening at the Niels Bohr Institute

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Look up in June

Read here (in Danish) about the star trinity in the bright June night sky.

Niels Bohr Interferometric Teaching Telescope (NBITT):

First light from student-built radio telescope

During the last six months, academic employee Gaurav Kumar, together with master students Kaj…

Villlum Grants:

Top Researchers Receive Multi-Million DKK Grants from Villum Foundation

How can we recycle plastic more effectively? And how can we transmit data using less energy? Eleven…

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Look up in May

Read here (in Danish) about which bright objects you can see on the night sky in May.

Great honor for CERN research:

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to CERN LHC experiments

The Fundamental Breakthrough Prize has been awarded to all the physicists that have contributed to…

Book publishing:

On the Trail of the Mystery of Time – New Book on Time for Non-Physicists

Associate Professor Troels Harmark has published a book, On the Trail of the Mystery of Time, which…

Top 100 talent:

Kasper Elm Heintz among Berlingske’s Top 100 Talents

Congratulations to Kasper Elm Heintz, assistant professor at the Cosmic Dawn Center, who has been…

Best Early Career Researcher:

European Research Award to Johan Samsing

Johan Samsing receives the European MERAC award 2025 for "Best Early Career Researcher" from the…

Major project launched:

Major project launched: improving climate models with historical data

How can climate history help us create a more accurate picture of the future climate? A major…

Climate research:

New international climate project in the North Atlantic

University of Copenhagen will lead a new international research project to improve knowledge of…

Research news

The early Universe:

James Webb finds surprisingly mature galaxies in early cosmic megastructure

Danish astronomy student leads new research: Some of the heaviest galaxy groups in the universe hav…

Quantum computing:

How to improve the performance of qubits: super-fast fluctuation detection achieved at NBI

Research at NBI pushes the detection speed of changes in qubits 100 times faster than previously…