Bronze relief of Nobel laureates at the Niels Bohr Institute

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:00 +0200

The Niels Bohr Institute is probably the only building in the world that has provided the setting for...

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

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200

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

Researchers close to finding habitable planets

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0200

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

Most distant Type Ia supernova observed

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:45:00 +0200

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

Nanowire solar cells raises efficiency limit

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:00:00 +0100

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

Planck satellite explores the infancy of the universe

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:45:00 +0100

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

More hurricane surges in the future

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:15:00 +0100

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

Greenland ice cores reveal warm climate of the past

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:30:00 +0100

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

The paths of photons are random – but coordinated

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:30:00 +0100

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have demonstrated that photons (light particles) emitted from...

New knowledge about the remarkable properties of black holes

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:30:00 +0100

Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have...

Massive volcanic eruption puts past climate and people in perspective

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:45:00 +0100

The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of years took place in Indonesia 74,000 years...

Turbulent flows in 2D can be calculated in new model

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0200

Turbulent flows have challenged researchers for centuries. It is impossible to predict chaotic weather...

Tropical cyclones are occurring more frequently than before

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0200

Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute clearly...

Methane emissions can be traced back to Roman times

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0200

Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere can be traced back thousands of years in...

The Mars rover Curiosity finds an old riverbed on Mars

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:15:00 +0200

The rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars on the 6th of August, has found deposits formed in the...

CERN experiments may reveal new state of matter for the 'glue particles', the gluons

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:45:00 +0200

At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established for the first...

Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200

Researchers from NBI have related the layers in the ice cap on Mars’s north pole to variations...

The mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:45:00 +0200

With the latest observations from the Planck satellite, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among...

Sweet building blocks of life found around young star

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:15:00 +0200

Life is made up of a series of complex organic molecules, including sugars. Astronomers from NBI...

Successful landing on Mars

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:15:00 +0200

"It has succeeded, it has landed”, it sounds from head of the Danish Mars research group, Morten...

Warming and melting on top of the Greenland ice sheet

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:45:00 +0200

On top of the approximately 3 km thick ice sheet in Greenland the temperature is normally around minus...

Rise in temperatures and CO2 follow each other closely in climate change

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:15:00 +0200

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in...

Breakthrough – the Higgs has been found

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0200

So there it is – the Higgs, the mysterious particle that causes all things to have a mass. After...

Discovery of material with amazing properties

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:30:00 +0200

Normally a material can be either magnetically or electrically polarized, but not both. Now researchers...

Planets can form around different types of stars

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:00:00 +0200

New research from NBI, among others, shows that small planets can form around very different types of...

Breaking the limits of classical physics

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0200

Researchers from NBI have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense....

Baby galaxies grew up quickly

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:15:00 +0200

Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought,...

Cooling semiconductor by laser light

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0100

Researchers at the NBI have combined two worlds – quantum physics and nano physics, and this has...

A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:15:00 +0100

Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered that most of the Milky Way’s 100 billion...