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2011.08.31 | Awards
Flemming Besenbacher receives distinguished American chemistry award
Professor Flemming Besenbacher has been awarded the Langmuir Lecture Award 2011.
2011.08.30 | Research
Efficient use of nature’s packed lunch
Newly hatched chicks use the packed lunch they bring with them from the egg best if their first meal is postponed.
2011.08.29 | Research
A new spin on topological insulator surfaces
A team of researchers headed by Aarhus physicist Phillip Hofmann has discovered that properties of the topological insulator bismuth selenide could provide the solution to how a new computing technology called ‘spintronics’ can work at room temperature.
2011.08.22 | Research
New protein complexes shed light on quality control in human cells
Researchers at Aarhus University have identified and characterised two novel protein complexes associated with the human RNA exosome, an important player in the cell's quality control of RNA.
2011.08.16 | News from the management
Aarhus University moves up the ranking list
Aarhus University has moved up twelve places in the Shanghai ranking list of the world’s best universities. With its placing as number eighty-six, the university is thus among this year’s high jumpers on the list.
2011.08.15 | Research
PhD student wins international engineering competition
Lasse Bjerg, a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO) and the Centre for Energy Materials (CEM), Aarhus University, has won the title of EUSPEN International Challenge Winner 2011 at the Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, UK.
2011.08.08 | Research
Millions of small RNAs paint a bigger picture of human gene activity
Scientists have discovered the origin of a new group of small RNAs (sRNAs) that contain genetic information.
2011.08.08 | News from the management
EU supports new degree programmes at Aarhus University
In fierce competition with universities from all over Europe, Aarhus University has secured support from the European Union for two international degree programmes in journalism and sustainable farming.
2011.08.08 | Research
Sea ice in the Arctic is far from stable
A new research project involving scientists at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, has shown that the summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from stable during the last 10,000 years.
2011.08.03 | Research
Digging Into the Past: AU excavation team finds history underground
An excavation team, led by Aarhus University professor Andres Dobat, heads to Germany to piece together a story of politics, violence and religion.
2011.08.01 | Research
Save money and increase yield with smart traffic in the field
A new decision support system can help farmers optimize their traffic in the field. The farmer can thereby increase machine efficiency, avoid soil compaction, save on pesticides whilst increasing yield.
2011.08.01 | Research
Prestigious award for trapping antihydrogen
The American Physical Society has awarded the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research 2011 to Jeffrey Hangst and Paul Bowe, Department of Physics and Astronomy.