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Cells feel surroundings -

Cells ‘feel’ their surroundings using finger-like structures

Cells have finger-like projections that they can ‘feel’ their physical surroundings with using…

Coveted ERC Grants -

ERC grants for two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

Two researchers from NBI, Albert Schliesser, Assistant Professor in Quantum Optics and Oliver…

Nature’s ingenious systems:

Celldivision induces tissue ordering

If there is a blood clot preventing blood from flowing across the endothelial cells, they begin to…

The world’s largest telescope

Green light for construction of the E-ELT

The ESO Council has now decided to start building the new large European telescope E-ELT (European…

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner

Congratulations to Antje Fitzner from Centre for Ice and Climate who succesfully defended her PhD…

Cosmic distances:

Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The…

Mystery of dwarf galaxy could be ejected black hole

Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has bee…

Eugene Polzik receives Danish Association of Masters and PhDs’ Research Award

Eugene Polzik, professor and head of the research group Quantop at the Niels Bohr Institute has…

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

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

Malte Olsen – 50 years of physics experiments, teaching, Mars and a physics column

NBI’s physics column, Ask About Physics, is often called ‘Ask Malte’ and it is a very apt title as…