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Science and Physics World Breakthrough of the Year 2017
21 December 2017
Science Breakthrough of the Year 2017 in the highly acclaimed publications, Science and Physics World, goes to the collaboration that led to the first ever observation of gravitational waves.
Research Collaboration on virus attacks
20 December 2017
Physicists and molecular biologists from the University of Copenhagen have published a new and exciting take on how bacteria can survive virus attacks.
Chaos in the transition from sleep to awake
15 December 2017
Danish researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have investigated how to describe one of the most significant state changes in the brain, namely the transition between sleep and wakefulness.
Qubits put into reverse
30 November 2017
A group of scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has figured out how to make spin qubits perform controlled backward rotations. This has never been shown before.
From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics
23 November 2017
High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team measuring neutrino interaction at energy levels 1000 times higher than what can be attained in man-made particle generators.
Colour technology of ancient egyptian papyrus revealed by synchrotron analysis
20 November 2017
Copper has for the first time been found to be a constituency of papyrus black ink. The papyri are fabricated over a period of 300 years and geographically spread over the entire Egypt.
New discovery: Supernova explodes several times
08 November 2017
Astronomers have for the first time discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years. These observations are challenging existing theories on cosmic catastrophes.
Neutron star smash shakes universe
17 October 2017
Scientists have, for the first time, captured gravitational waves as well as light, from two neutron stars that orbited each other ever closer to eventually collide. The groundbreaking discovery begins a...
Now we know where the heavy elements come from
16 October 2017
The discovery of a kilonova produced by the collision of two neutron stars brings researchers a big step closer to the explanation of one of the great puzzles of science: how the heaviest elements in the universe were formed.
ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space
03 October 2017
Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including researchers from NBI, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet.