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News on Geophysics

Neutrino Research:

A New Upgrade for the IceCube Detector

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

Kell Mortensen receives the 2019 Walter Hälg prize

ENSA (The European Neutron Scattering Association) awards the Walter Hälg Prize every other year to…

Congratulations to Ida Margrethe Ringgaard

Congratulations to Ida Margrethe Ringgaard at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully…

Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019

Professor Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019, annually awarded by The Danish Society of…

Climate research:

Conceptual model can explain how thunderstorm clouds bunch together

A new theoretical study from associate professor, Jan Härter, at the Niels Bohr Institute,…

Cancer research:

New methods from material sciences in physics find their way into cancer research

A new study on the behavior of water in cancer cells shows how methods usually limited to physics…

Congratulations to Karl Nyman

Congratulations to Karl Nyman at Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth who successfully defended his Ph…

New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points

Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tippin…

Professor Emeritus Helge Kragh receives the prestigeous Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics 2019

The prize is awarded for Helge Kragh’s outstanding contribution to the history of physics, his…

QUANTUM PHYSICS:

Copenhagen researchers break quantum limit in the precision of force and position measurements

Researchers of the Schliesser Lab at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have pushe…