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News 2012
Tropical cyclones are occurring more frequently than before
2012-10-16
Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute clearly shows that there is an increasing tendency for cyclones when the climate is warmer
Methane emissions can be traced back to Roman times
2012-10-03
Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere can be traced back thousands of years in the Greenland ice sheet. The results go all the way back to Roman times and up to the present
The Mars rover Curiosity finds an old riverbed on Mars
2012-10-01
The rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars on the 6th of August, has found deposits formed in the Martian past by a fast moving stream of water with a depth between ankle and hip height
CERN experiments may reveal new state of matter for the 'glue particles', the gluons
2012-09-14
At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established for the first time. At the LHC accelerator at CERN, collisions between protons and lead nuclei were established tonight, for the first time
Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun
2012-09-06
Researchers from NBI have related the layers in the ice cap on Mars’s north pole to variations in solar insolation on Mars, thus established the first dated climate history for Mars
The mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered
2012-09-04
With the latest observations from the Planck satellite, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, may be closer than ever to a solution to the origin of the mysterious dark matter
Sweet building blocks of life found around young star
2012-08-29
Life is made up of a series of complex organic molecules, including sugars. Astronomers from NBI have now observed a simple sugar molecule in the gas surrounding a young star
Successful landing on Mars
2012-08-06
"It has succeeded, it has landed”, it sounds from head of the Danish Mars research group, Morten Bo Madsen, who is reporting from NASA’s control centre in Pasadena, California
Warming and melting on top of the Greenland ice sheet
2012-08-03
On top of the approximately 3 km thick ice sheet in Greenland the temperature is normally around minus 10-15 degrees C in the summer. This year, researchers from NBI observed temperatures above zero
Rise in temperatures and CO2 follow each other closely in climate change
2012-07-23
New research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise in the atmospheric CO2 follow each other closely in terms of time.
