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

2021.05.21

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of…
New physics at stake? Deviation from the standard model of physics confirmed

2021.04.26

An ultraprecise measurement of spinning muons, heavier cousins of electrons, in magnetic fields has…
Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

2021.01.25

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and…
Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

2020.06.02

Following the latest developments of the COVID 19 pandemic, the planned Workshop on Perspectives an…
Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

2020.01.23

Three young scientists, Mauricio Bustamante, Amin Doostmohammadi and Johan Samsing get to boost…
Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

2020.01.15

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow…
Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

2019.08.20

Associate Professor Irene Tamborra at the Niels Bohr Institute receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal…
Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

2019.03.14

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, receives…
Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

2019.01.24

Four young scientists, Matthias Wilhelm, Christa Gall, Michele Burrello and You Zhou recieves…
DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

2018.11.08

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data…
Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

2018.07.03

An international research team, with participation from the Niels Bohr Institute, has found the sam…
Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

2018.05.29

Jane Lixin Dai and Professor Enrico Ramirez from DARK Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute…
The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

2018.04.25

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr…
Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

2018.01.30

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group…
From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

2017.11.23

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team…
ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

2017.08.23

Jacob Bourjaily, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr International Academy, has been…
Undervisnings- og Forskningsminister Søren Pind besøger CERN

2017.04.24

Minister Søren Pind og en dansk ministeriel delegation besøger CERN, tirsdag d. 25. April. Søren…
Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje member of EU science committee

2016.11.14

Professor Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, Center for Particel Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute has been…
First step in the Deep Space mission

2016.09.21

Deep Space is a project that will use a new specially designed telescope to look far into space in…
Scientist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75

2016.08.23

Denmark’s most famous and beloved physicist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75 on the 25th of August.…
The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

2016.08.08

Some of the most abundant particles in the universe are the so-called ghost particles, neutrinos,…
Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

2016.04.01

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, a professor of particle physics and head of the Subatomic research group at…
The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

2016.02.09

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead…
Troels Petersen from the Niels Bohr Institute receives Science Dissemination Award

2015.12.15

‘A star in the area of communication’ – this is how Troels Petersen is described by colleagues,…
CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

2015.11.25

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN…
Pavel Naselsky appointed Professor

2015.10.14

Pavel Naselsky has been appointed professor in the research group Theoretical Particle Physics and…
CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

2015.06.03

The 27 km long underground particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is once…
Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

2015.04.16

The Earth is constantly bombarded by billions of neutrinos, which zip right through the entire…
CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

2015.03.12

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready…
Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

2014.11.04

At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti…
Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

2014.10.10

Astrophysicist Lise Bech Christensen from the DARK Cosmology Centre and particle physicist Stefania…
CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

2014.09.29

Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest particle physics laboratory in the world and a prime…
Two NBI researchers receive Sapere Aude grants

2014.06.19

Two NBI researchers, Charlotte Fløe Kristiansen, a professor in theoretical high energy physics and…
The ALICE group at NBI receives 6½ million kroner to research primordial soup

2014.06.16

The ALICE group at NBI has received a grant of 6½ million kroner from the Danish Council for…
6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research

2014.01.23

Research at CERN receives 6.685 million Danish kroner from NUFI, the National Committee for Researc…
Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

2013.10.18

The Niels Bohr Institute is now officially admitted as a full member of the IceCube collaboration.…
Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

2013.10.09

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics “for the…
Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner

2013.09.30

The Discovery Center for Particle Physics at NBI has received a grant of 40 million kroner from the…

National Instrument Center for CERN Experiments

News: Particle Physics

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

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

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

Deep Learning online Workshop at the Niels Bohr Institute: Great Learning

Three young scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

Irene Tamborra receives the 2019 Shakti P. Duggal Award

Irene Tamborra, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, receives scientific prize

Four young scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Milky Way type dust particles discovered in a galaxy 11 billion light years from Earth

Here is what it looks like, when a massive black hole devours a star

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

ERC Starting Grant for Jacob Bourjaily

Undervisnings- og Forskningsminister Søren Pind besøger CERN

Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje member of EU science committee

First step in the Deep Space mission

Scientist Holger Bech Nielsen turns 75

The long hunted sterile neutrino cannot be traced

Danish professor new vice-president of the CERN Council

The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN

Troels Petersen from the Niels Bohr Institute receives Science Dissemination Award

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

Pavel Naselsky appointed Professor

CERN restarts particle collisions at record high energy

Detector at the South Pole explores the mysterious neutrinos

CERN starting the LHC accelerator up again to solve new mysteries

Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti is next CERN Director-General

Over 12 million kroner to two researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute

CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science

Two NBI researchers receive Sapere Aude grants

The ALICE group at NBI receives 6½ million kroner to research primordial soup

6.7 million DKK for Danish CERN research

Niels Bohr Institute part of the research project IceCube at the South Pole

Nobel Prize for the Higgs mechanism

Discovery Center receives 40 million kroner