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Georgios Magdis receives grant from Villum Foundation

Georgios Magdis, an assistant professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, has…

Very high silicon content surprises Mars researchers

New results from the Mars rover Curosity show that some rocks in Gale Crater have a high content of…

Troels Petersen from the Niels Bohr Institute receives Science Dissemination Award

‘A star in the area of communication’ – this is how Troels Petersen is described by colleagues,…

Historic astronomy

Astronomy archaeology – finding 120-year-old observations

In the basement under the Niels Bohr Institute building on Juliane Maries Vej in Copenhagen they…

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…

Mark Rudner receives ERC grant of nearly 12 million kroner

Mark Rudner, associate professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the…

Woman prize to man

The KIF Prize 2015 goes to Professor Jens Hjorth

The Danish Network for Women in Physics, KIF has awarded the 2015 prize to Professor Jens Hjorth,…

Communication prize

Anja Andersen receives the Danish Physical Society’s Communication Award

Anja Andersen, associate professor at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute,…

The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth

New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North Atlantic propagated globally. The…

Swift satellite detects 1000th gamma-ray burst

The NASA satellite, Swift, has now detected its 1000th gamma-ray burst. Since the launch of the…