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Ice core drilling

New Greenland ice core drilled through the Renland ice cap

An international research team led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have…

LHC accelerator

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

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

New iscecore project

Research station moved nearly 500 km across the Greenland ice sheet

The entire research station NEEM has been moved 465 km across the Greenland ice sheet on skis to th…

Peter Lodahl receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant

Peter Lodahl, professor and head of the Quantum Photonics research group at the Niels Bohr…

Congratulations to Alexandra Messerli

Congratulations to Alexandra Messerli who succesfully defended her PhD thesis at Centre for Ice an…

Thomas Heimburg appointed Professor

Thomas Heimburg, head of the Membrane Biophysics Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, has been…

Beginning of the field season 2015

From end April 2015 you can follow two exciting field campaigns in Greenland - EGRIP and RECAP

Messengers from the universe -

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

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

Liquid water on Mars

Mars might have liquid water

Researchers have long known that there was water in the form of ice on Mars. Now, new research from…

Mars has belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water

Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in…