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News on Geophysics

UCPH astronomers find six distant – and mysteriously dead – galaxies

Astronomers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), among…

Astronomers spot the same supernova three times — and predict a fourth sighting in 16 years

The enormous gravitation of a cluster of galaxies warps space to the extent that light from distant…

Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes

Space is so warped around black holes that even light rays curve around them. However, this has not…

New research into the spreading of infections reveals need for greater collaboration between biology and physics

Researchers have modelled the spread of infections under a variety of scenarios, and the Coronaviru…

QUANTUM RESEARCH

New invention keeps qubits of light stable at room temperature

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have developed a new technique that keeps quantum bits of…

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice…

Quantum computing:

Physics students train on IBM Quantum technology

The Niels Bohr Institute will start training future generations of quantum physicists, next winter,…

Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of…

Basic research in physics leads to promising results for biology and medicine

Oscillations are a fundamental phenomenon in physics. But it is not always readily apparent why…

Particle Physics:

New physics at stake? Deviation from the standard model of physics confirmed

An ultraprecise measurement of spinning muons, heavier cousins of electrons, in magnetic fields has…