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News 2009

The Almanac is flying off the shelves

2009-11-18

After many years of quiet life the Almanac has suddenly become so popular that extra editions had to be printed

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Danish nanowires have great potential

2009-11-03

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method with great potential for nanoelectronics and highly efficient solar cells

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Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

2009-10-30

Researchers have now shown that superstring theory can be used to infer relations between processes, which can also be studied at LHC the experiment at CERN

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Greenhouse gasses cause rise in sea level

2009-10-28

Researchers from NBI have calculated that the greatest factors influencing the rise of the sea level during the last 200 years were man-made

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Space travel to distant galaxies

2009-10-23

Space travel to distant galaxiesIs it possible to travel with a spaceship to a distant galaxy, located millions of light years out in the universe, and then travel back to the Earth again? Yes, theoretically, says the Australian astrophysicist, Berian James, who has...

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Sleepless and weightless at Space University

2009-10-21

Sleepless and weightless at Space UniversityLine Drube, a Ph.D.-student with the Mars-group at the Niels Bohr Institute received a grant of 67,000 kroner from the Lundbeck Foundation and 75.000 kroner from ESA in February 2009 to take part in an intensive...

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Race for entangled electrons

2009-10-16

Race for entangled electronsAfter years of struggle and fierce international competition Danish and Swiss researchers have succeeded in splitting electron pairs from superconductors using nanowires. Their sensational results have just been published in the...

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Cell communication modelled

2009-09-22

Cell communication modelledAnimals and plants need to know what is happening throughout their organism. For that an organised communication system is needed, so that the body or the plant knows what is happening all the way out in the...

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Melting of the Greenland ice sheet mapped

2009-09-16

Melting of the Greenland ice sheet mappedWill all of the ice on Greenland melt and flow out into the sea, bringing about a colossal rise in ocean levels on Earth, as the global temperature rises? The key concern is how stable the ice cap actually is and new Danish...

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The Earth´s oceans were formed by water from comets

2009-09-04

The Earth´s oceans were formed by water from cometsComets filled with ice and not stony asteroids bombarded the Earth and Moon 3,85 billion years ago and made the craters on the Moon and the Earth´s oceans, according to new research by astronomer Uffe Gråe Jørgensen from...

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Climate change is man-made shows arctic research

2009-09-03

Read the article: Climate change is man-made shows arctic researchNew research shows that the temperature of the arctic region fell steadily from over 2000 years ago all the way up to a 100 years ago. The cooling was caused by less solar radiation during the summer and the cold temperatures...

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Danish star research achieves stardom

2009-08-24

Read the article: Danish star research achieves stardomThe astronomical catalogue, the Tycho-2 catalogue, which contains the positions, motions and luminosity of the brightest 2,5 million stars in the sky, is one of the most used astronometric catalogues in the world...

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Ice core drilling sets new world record

2009-08-17

Read the article: Ice core drilling sets new world recordAfter 110 days the field season is reaching the end at the NEEM ice camp on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The season has been a tremendous success with the ice core drilling and processing of ice from the surface to 1757.84 m depth...

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The longest total solar eclipse of the century

2009-08-12

Read the article: The longest total solar eclipse of the centuryWitnessing a total solar eclipse is a privilege that not everyone gets the opportunity to experience. You will never forget the experience, as the moon with unbelievable precision glides in between the Sun and the Earth...

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The least sea ice in 800 years

2009-07-01

Read the article: The least sea ice in 800 yearsNew research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results from...

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Super fast film recording makes ultra precise chemistry possible

2009-06-26

Read the article: Super fast film recording makes ultra precise chemistry possibleA Danish research group are the first to film the formation of a new molecule out of two separate chemical substances. It is an achievement that could allow for energy-efficient chemical production and more effective chemical and...

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The research council system is inflexible and fragmented

2009-06-25

Read the article: The research council system is inflexible and fragmentedThat is why an independent evaluation panel has recommended that a joint board be established for all funding functions of the entire system, writes the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation...

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Young stars in Finnish summer night

2009-06-12

Read the article: Young stars in Finnish summer nightIn Finland a team of Nordic and Baltic astronomi students prepare to work with the future gigantic radio- and optic telescopes in the exploration of the Universe. What does a bright Finnish summer night among the birch trees...

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It's in the bag - ESS to Lund

2009-06-08

Read the article: It's in the bag - ESS to LundSpain has withdrawn its candidacy to be the host country for the research facility ESS and it has been decided that ESS will definitely be placed in Lund. ”Fantastic, now the fun work begins! Congratulations to everyone who has...

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Children and the Brorfelde Observatory in focus

2009-06-04

Read the article: Children and the Brorfelde Observatory in focusTwo projects place focus on the astronomy of the past and the astronomy of the future. In one project, schoolchildren will build their own simple telescopes to explore the sky with and in the other project a film will be made about the...

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Royal visit to the ice

2009-06-03

Read the article: Royal visit to the iceCrown Prince Frederik and his fellow heirs to the throne from Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria and from Norway, Crown Prince Haakon have visited the NEEM camp on the Greenland ice cap, where they observed the ice core..

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Massive support for ESS in the Øresund Region

2009-06-02

Read the article: Massive support for ESS in the Øresund RegionWith very strong support from seven countries, including Germany, France, Denmark and Norway, there is now a clear majority in support of placing the super research facility ESS in the Øresund Region...

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Incredibly sensitive instrument ready to observe the universe

2009-05-26

Read the article: Incredibly sensitive instrument ready to observe the universeThe new instrument is called the X-shooter and has now been installed at the European very large telescope, the VLT in Chile. Danish researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have developed and built a large part of...

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Spectacular new record set for the Universe’s most distant stellar explosion

2009-04-28

Read the article: Spectacular new record set for the Universe?s most distant stellar explosionA gamma-ray burst, more distant than the farthest known galaxy, has been discovered by a team with researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. The gamma-ray burst is light from...

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Critical turning point can trigger abrupt climate change

2009-04-20

Read the article: Critical turning point can trigger abrupt climate changeIce ages are the greatest natural climate changes in recent geological times. Their rise and fall are caused by slight changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun due to the influence of the other planets...

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A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

2009-04-16

Read the article: A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clockA clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years – this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the University of Colorado, USA and...

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Agreement over european research facility, ESS

2009-04-03

Read the article: Agreement over european research facility, ESSDenmark and Sweden have signed an agreement over Danish co-hostship of a large European research facility, ESS, which the two countries wish to have placed in the Oresund region. ESS - European Spallation...

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Explore the night sky

2009-03-31

Read the article: Explore the night sky >>Experience the Milky Way, see the deep craters of the Moon, study the planet Saturn with its fascinating rings and see nebulas and star clusters in the distant universe - from April 2nd-5th everyone can take...

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The Ministry of Science drops ranking list

2009-03-30

Read the article: The Ministry of Science drops ranking listThe Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation acknowledges that the ministry's attempt to evaluate the universities using ranking lists of journals and publishers has failed. Researchers from...

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Quantum paper among most cited worldwide

2009-03-25

Read the article: Quantum paper among most cited worldwideThe paper “Unconditional quantum teleportation” published in Science (1998) has been ranked number 59 among most cited papers in physics worldwide in the past 10 years with more than 1000 citations and it is...

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The origin of supernovae confirmed

2009-03-19

Read the article: The origin of supernovae confirmedWhere do supernovae come from? Astronomers have long believed they were exploding stars, but by analysing a series of images, researchers from the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute...

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Article on 'primordial fluid' has 500 citations in record time

2009-03-16

Read the article: Article on 'primordial fluid' has 500 citations in record timeThe article entitled“Quark Gluon Plasma and Color Glass Condensate at RHIC? The Perspective from the BRAHMS Experiment”  which appeared in 2005 in Nuclear Physics A has accumulated 500 citations...

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New research into habitable solar systems

2009-02-18

Read the article: New research into habitable solar systemsHow was our solar systems formed and are there other similar solar systems? Is it a complete coincidence that there exist particular astrophysical conditions so that solid, water rich, habitable planets were...

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Avoiding the Hothouse and the Icehouse

2009-02-11

Read the article: Avoiding the Hothouse and the Icehouse By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been...

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Dramatic expansion of dead zones in the oceans

2009-01-26

Read the article: Dramatic expansion of dead zones in the oceansUnchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean where higher life forms such as fish, crabs and clams are not able to live. In shallow coastal regions...

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Astronomy exhibition at Rosenborg Castle

2009-01-14

Read the article: Astronomy exhibition at Rosenborg Castle“It is really a national treasure,” exclaimed conservator Søren Andersen excited, enthusiastic and almost pious when he saw a unique old clock at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen...

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Sea level rise of one meter within 100 years

2009-01-08

Read the article: Sea level rise of one meter within 100 yearsNew research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level – which is three times higher than predictions from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel...

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