Niels Bohr Institute

News on Geophysics

Building block of life in Space:

ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space

Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including…

Climate research:

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:

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:

Star formation influenced by local environmental conditions

Three scientists at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, have carried out extensiv…

Volcanic eruptions:

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…

ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy, has been…

Major outburst floods:

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:

Spying on malaria parasites at -196 Celsius

A team of scientists led by postdoc Sergey Kapishnikov from the Niels Bohr Institute has managed to…

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:

Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem

One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by…