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Particle physics:

2024.11.05

First peek at nuclear shape transitions

Based on an experiment at CERN, a collaboration led by the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

Theoretical Particle Physics:

2022.04.25

New and surprising duality found in theoretical particle physics

A new and surprising duality has been discovered in theoretical particle physics. The duality exist…

EVOLUTION

2021.05.21

Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of…

Particle Physics:

2021.04.26

New physics at stake? Deviation from the standard model of physics confirmed

An ultraprecise measurement of spinning muons, heavier cousins of electrons, in magnetic fields has…

NEUTRINO RESEARCH:

2021.03.10

IceCube confirms a 60-year-old prediction from Niels Bohr Institute

Scientists from Niels Bohr Institute are part of an international collaboration observing resonant…

Grant:

2021.01.25

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and…

Online workshop:

2020.06.02

Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

Following the latest developments of the COVID 19 pandemic, the planned Workshop on Perspectives an…

Grant:

2020.01.23

Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Three young scientists, Mauricio Bustamante, Amin Doostmohammadi and Johan Samsing get to boost…

Award:

2020.01.15

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow…

Astrophysics:

2019.10.23

The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements

For the first time, an element heavier than iron has been clearly detected in the collision of two…

Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation:

2019.07.22

Probing the beginning of the Universe can soon be done more accurately

As many as 200 telescopes will be erected, in order to achieve the highest possible precision in…

Neutrino Research:

2019.07.11

A New Upgrade for the IceCube Detector

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica is about to get a significant upgrade. The purpose o…

Grant

2019.01.24

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves…

Grant:

2018.11.08

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data…

Astrophysics:

2018.07.03

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the sam…

New computer model:

2018.05.29

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute…

GRANT:

2018.04.25

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr…

Neutrino research:

2017.11.23

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team…

Tyngdebølger:

2017.10.17

Neutronstjerners sammenstød rystede universet

For første gang er det lykkedes at opfange tyngdebølger såvel som lys fra to kolliderende…

Ny æra i astronomien:

2017.10.16

Astronomerne har fået en ekstra sans

Nu er det for første gang lykkedes at detektere tyngdebølger såvel som elektromagnetiske stråling…

EU appointment:

2016.11.14

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje member of EU science committee

Professor Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Center for Particel Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute has been…

Cosmology:

2016.09.21

First step in the Deep Space mission

Deep Space is a project that will use a new specially designed telescope to look far into space in…

Physicist, researcher and lecturer:

2016.08.23

Scientist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75

Denmark’s most famous and beloved physicist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75 on the 25th of August.…

Ghost particles:

2016.08.08

The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos,…

Appointment

2016.04.01

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at…

CERN

2016.02.09

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead…

CERN

2015.11.25

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN…

LHC accelerator

2015.06.03

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once…

Messengers from the universe -

2015.04.16

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos, which zip right through the entire…

LHC restarts

2015.03.12

CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready…

CERN:

2014.11.04

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti…

Celebration:

2014.09.29

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime…

2013.10.18

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration.…

2013.10.09

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the…