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Gaia on a mission to map billions of stars in the Milky Way

On the 19th of December, the Gaia satellite will be launched and it will make the most precise…

Weather forecast for Christmas - a white Christmas?

Will there be another storm and maybe a blizzard? No, we won’t get a white Christmas, assesses the…

Explosive growth of young star

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, shows that a young, newly formed star in…

Niels Bohr Institute appointed Historic Site

The European Physical Society has declared the Niels Bohr Institute as a Historical Site with great…

Decay used to construct quantum information

Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the…

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighbourhood

Gamma-ray bursts are violent bursts of gamma radiation associated with exploding massive stars. For…

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration.…

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the…

Explosive dynamic behaviour on Twitter and in the financial market

Over the past 10 years, social media has changed the way that people influence each other. By…

French physicist receives Niels Bohr Gold Medal

The prominent French physicist Alain Aspect received the Niels Bohr Gold Medal today. The medal wil…