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Passage graves from an astronomical perspective
2008-12-15
Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves’ orientation in the landscape could have an...
'The Modern Age' is defined by Danish ice core research
2008-12-10
Denmark is now the holder of the international standard reference, which precisely defines when the ice age ends and the modern age begins. The answer lies in the ice cores from the NorthGRIP drilling in...
World’s most powerful synchrotron to Lund
2008-11-21
The Swedish government has given the green light for a new synchrotron, MAX IV, which will be the world’s most powerful radiation facility for the research of materials. The location at the University of Lund also...
Denmark part of the world’s largest telescope project
2008-11-05
A telescope, which will be the world’s biggest and that will be able to see the weakest stars in the most distant universe, is a new gigantic project under the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the...
Quantum dots – a supernova in nano-size
2008-10-13
A quantum dot is a very small crystal bead that is extremely bright. It is the supernovae of the nano world (exploding star) and researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in trapping an individual...
New technique for better energy efficiency
2008-10-07
New knowledge about thermoelectric materials could give better energy efficiency. Researchers at the University of Århus, Risø-DTU and the University of Copenhagen stand jointly behind new data, just published in...
From blackboard teaching to experiments
2008-10-06
The physics students at the Niels Bohr Institute are now being taught in a whole new way, which has given fantastically good results. The traditional form of teaching with lectures in large auditoriums is being...
The world is not going to end
2008-09-22
The Niels Bohr Institute is still getting inquiries from people who fear that the experiments at CERN will lead to the end of the world. Read particle physicist Børge Svane Nielsen’s response to a concerned citizen....
Black holes and the end of the world
2008-09-10
The media is full of horror stories of black holes that will swallow up the Earth when researchers turn on the world’s largest particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland...
Telescope on the Greenland ice cap
2008-08-25
Summit, on the middle of the ridge of the 3 kilometer thick ice cap in Greenland could be a new scientific centre for astronomical observations in the northern hemisphere. Astrophysicist Kristian Pedersen...
