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News on Geophysics

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE:

Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations

Cosmic Dawn Center – a collaboration between Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr…

Climate physics:

Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections internationally

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen gathered the data from the ice…

Climate change:

Abrupt ice age climate changes behaved like cascading dominoes

Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called…

New study shows doubt about the composition of 70 percent of our universe

Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark…

Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time

For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland's ice sheet that are so…

Climate change:

PICE Copenhagen joins large scale joint effort in the arctic within the Danish Commonwealth

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has awarded just below 37 million kr to a targeted…

Prominent professor named as Head of Scientific Research at Denmark’s National Centre for Climate Research

Floods, cloudbursts, heatwaves; the climate of the future will be more extreme. On assuming the…

Are we alone? UCPH researchers hold their breath ahead of Mars landing

Traces of prehistoric life will be the ultimate goal as the NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars…

Climate physics:

Sea level will rise faster than previously thought

NBI researchers have constructed a new method of quantifying just how fast the sea will react to…

Climate research:

The Catcher in the Ice

A new device used to extract gas trapped in ice cores by sublimation will shave hours off the time…