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New study from CEBI: Parents’ birth weight influences children’s performance in school
The correlation between one’s birth weight and how one makes it later in life is not a new phenomenon within science. According to a new…
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Former DNRF head of center Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen will be the leader of a new center at the University of Southern Denmark
On November 1, Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, professor and previous head of center at the DNRF’s Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces (QGM) at Aarhus…
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A simple mathematical equation explains how people synchronize when tapping out rhythms together
When two people tap out a simple rhythm together, they choose different strategies to synchronize. Sometimes one person becomes a leader, and the other becomes…
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New study from CCS: Women’s naturally fluctuating fertility curve is caused by chromosome abnormalities
It is well known that women’s natural fertility curve goes up and down throughout their lifetimes, but a new study, led by researchers from the…
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Major space news from DAWN: The final piece in the puzzle of the origin of the elements
Press release from University of Copenhagen: The first unequivocal evidence of where the heaviest elements were forged has now been found by a research group…
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Other October News in Brief
The Danish National Research Foundation and two other public foundations behind a contribution to Altinget; a big interview with Rita Felski in Politiken; Carsten Rahbek…
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New study from McGrath’s Niels Bohr Professorship in the Lancet: Mentally ill die many years earlier than others
PRESS RELEASE: New research from Aarhus BSS confirms that people with mental disorders have an increased risk of premature mortality. When compared to the general…
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The Danish National Research Foundation is ready to invest DKK 1.1 billion in 10 new Centers of Excellence
The board of the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) has decided to invest DKK 657 million and allocate an additional DKK 440 million to 10…
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Two ERC Synergy Grants to researchers with a connection to the DNRF
Two research teams with a connection to the Danish National Research Foundation are among five recipients from Denmark of this year’s Synergy Grants from the…
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New study from bigQ: Blanket of light may provide better quantum computers
News from bigQ and DTU: Researchers from the DNRF Center bigQ at DTU Physics describe in an article how – by simple means – they…
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Previous DNRF-head of center Karl Anker Jørgensen is the first recipient of H. C. Ørsted Gold Medal in 30 years
For the first time in 30 years, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science decided…
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PERSIMUNE examines how the gut flora is affected in patients with suppressed immune systems
Researchers from the Center of Excellence PERSIMUNE at Rigshospitalet will examine how the gut flora is affected in patients with suppressed immune systems caused by…
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Observations of red giants may confirm 50-year-old theory
When low-mass stars, such as the Sun, are about to burn out, they swell and become red giants – a phase in the life of…
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Discovery of the most remote galaxy cluster in the making moves the limit of our understanding of the cosmic dawn
An international research team, including researchers from the Center of Excellence Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) at the University of Copenhagen, has discovered a very remote…
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Other September News in Brief
Seven researchers with a connection to the DNRF received a Villum Experiment grant; UrbNet has launched a new journal; CeMiSt has discovered a bacterium with…
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