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Today's global warming follows more than 1000 years of colder climates

A new international study of past climate shows that the global temperature was getting colder and…

Researchers close to finding habitable planets

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Aarhus University are part of a team that has…

Most distant Type Ia supernova observed

In the quest to find the most distant supernova, researchers have broken the record and observed a…

Nanowire solar cells raises efficiency limit

Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut have shown that a single nanowir…

Planck satellite explores the infancy of the universe

Using new data from the Planck satellite, researchers can now show that the universe is not…

More hurricane surges in the future

How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005,…

Greenland ice cores reveal warm climate of the past

New research from the NEEM ice core drilling project in Greenland shows that the warm Eemian period…