Research news
2011.03.30 | Research, News
DKK 1.7 million for advanced anemometer
Associate Professor Per Nørnberg, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, has been granted DKK 1.7 million (approximately EUR 228,000) by the VILLUM FOUNDATION for the purchase and construction of a combined two-dimensional Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA) and Phase Doppler Anemometer (PDA) system.
2011.03.28 | Research, Forside au.dk, News
Artificial antibodies for improved diagnostics and therapy
Scientists from Aarhus University are the first in the world to develop a method that makes it possible to create artificial antibodies against a single cell in a heterogeneous mixture.
2011.03.18 | Research, News
Super tweezers grab hold of a single atom
Jacob Sherson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Munich have produced incredibly precise tweezers that can grab hold of a single atom – a major breakthrough in the development of potent quantum computers.
2011.03.16 | Research, News
The Japanese earthquake registered in Aarhus
The shaking from the violent events near Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was also felt in Aarhus. In the basement of the Department of Earth Sciences, a seismometer measured the Earth’s movements with great accuracy.
2011.03.15 | Research, News
New IALEI-study: Reengage with multicultural education
Multiculturalism has receded to the background of societies' priorities. A group of leading international researchers now conclude that education systems around the world need to put multicultural diversity at the forefront of their concerns.
2011.04.01 | Research, News
Bacteria in pig feed can protect the environment
Specially developed bacteria added to pig feed can help reduce nitrogen emissions from agriculture.
2011.03.04 | Research, News
New world-leading Danish platform for genome research
A ground-breaking collaboration cutting across four Danish universities and the business sector is now setting up a research and technology platform with the capacity and ambition to analyse the genome of the Danish population.
2011.03.03 | Research, News
Scientists to study the storage of CO2 at a distance from land
The high content of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is of concern to both scientists and the general public. The storage of CO2 is under fierce debate as a temporary solution to the not so straightforward road to greener times.
2011.03.01 | Research, News
Ultra-short laser pulses write holograms in record-high resolution
New research has created high-resolution, computer-generated reflection holograms with three-dimensional effects written directly on the surface of a silicon crystal.
2011.02.23 | Research, News, Society and politics, Health and disease
Researchers to explore prison-based drug treatment
Researchers at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Treatment at Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences have just received a major grant for studies of drug treatment in Nordic prisons.
2011.02.09 | Research, News, Environment, climate and energy, Nature and technology
North Atlantic pulse has influenced climate development since the Ice Age
Along with a researcher from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), scientists at Aarhus University have demonstrated that natural oscillations in the sea surface temperature recorded in the North Atlantic for the last 140 years existed throughout most of the Holocene Epoch – i.e. since the last Ice Age 11,500 years ago.
2011.02.08 | Research, News, Health and disease
iNANO scientists have determined the structure of a central player in Parkinson’s Disease
Together with collaborators at Copenhagen University and EMBO, scientists at iNANO and inSPIN have managed to determine the overall structure of a very important protein complex called an oligomer. This oligomer is believed to be the component that leads to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.