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Several research groups all over the world are working intensively around the clock driving rowers around and making experiments on Mars. A lot is happening, and we are learning a lot every day.
Senior researcher Morten Bo Madsen from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen explains to science Journalist Jens Degett some of the latest results presented rently.
Huge amount of water is detected beneath the surface of Mars. Astrophysicist states that travel to Mars can be done in two weeks with unlimited fuel and power.
Stone with organic like materials collected to be sent to Earth.
MOXIE a success!
If you wonder why the podcast is in English, and not Danish it is because we have an increasing number of listeners whenever we publish a podcast in English. Therefore, we make the experiment the next few months to produce all our podcasts in English.
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Life has existed and evolved on earth for almost 4 billion years. Living organisms copy themselves from other life and central for all known life forms is the genetic code.
We are used to hear life described by biologists. but physicists have access to tools which can give a different and to some extend deeper understanding of life. Science Journalist Jens Degett is visiting the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, talking with Professor in physics Kim Sneppen.
If you wonder why the podcast is in English, and not Danish it is because we have an increasing number of listeners whenever we publish a podcast in English. Therefore, we make the experiment the next few months to produce all our podcasts in English.
This podcast is supported by a Maria Leptin / EMBO Science Journalism Fellowship. -
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About fifty million individuals worldwide are affected by chronic hepatitis C virus. It has been one of the most expensive virus infections to treat, and it is an ongoing threat to global health. Now the virus has revealed a secret to a group of researchers in Denmark lead by Jannick Prentoe, from University of Copenhagen, after five years of intensive work.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07783-5
If you wonder why the podcast is in English, and not Danish it is because we have an increasing number of listeners whenever we publish a podcast in English. Therefore, we make the experiment the next few months to produce all our podcasts in English.
This podcast is supported by a Maria Leptin / EMBO Science Journalism Fellowship. -
Today’s story is a good example of how little we know about biology and life, and how we can use our knowledge to better fight diseases and environmental threats.
We are going to talk about bacteriophages or just fages. These are small viruses which attack bacteria. The story is literally about life and death and most organisms on earth are being killed every week.
Senior researcher Namiko Mitarai from the biocomplexity group at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen Namiko Mitarai is being interviewe by Science Journalist Jens Degett. The podcast is supported by a Maria Leptin / EMBO Science Journalism Fellowship. -
With new astronomical instruments and new knowledge of fundamental physics our understanding of the universe is developing fast. The new understanding of the universe from its Dark Ages, after the Big Bang, to the current acceleration with planets, stars, galaxies and life raises a lot of questions.
In this podcast, Science Journalist Jens Degett interviews Associate Professor Darach Watson from the Cosmic Dawn Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
The podcast is part of our project "Danish Space Research" supported by Otto Mønsteds Foundation and Thomas B. Thriges Foundation.
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Gennem nogen tid har man kunnet høre politikere og meningsdannere tale om at skære ned på uddannelserne, gøre dem kortere og udhule indholdet, så man ikke behøver at kunne så meget. Antallet af studerende skal skæres ned, og det skal være sværere for mange at komme ind på den uddannelse de ønsker sig.
Forskerne klager samtidig over at forskningsmidler som udbydes i fri konkurrence er stagneret i gennem de sidste år og helt galt står det til med EU-Midlerne der modregnes i forskningsbudgettet, så når forskerne har success til at hjemtage midler fra EU, så bliver der færre penge til den øvrige forskning.
Hvad foregår der egentligt? Videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett fra Science Stories har talt med forskningsordfører fra Radikale Venstre, Stinus Lindgreen om udviklingen inden for uddannelse og forskning. Er der et rationale bag, eller er forsknings og uddannelsessystemet bare meget dårlige til at forklare hvorfor de er vigtige? -
Superstrings was a very popular topic among physicists in the 1980ies. They had a renaissance in 1995 but then the researchers changed focus to other things. Now superstrings have gained new momentum in physics again. Professor Niels Obers from the Niels Bohr Institute explains what superstrings and string theory is. He also explains why superstrings are popular among researchers. Science journalists Jens Degett is interviewing.
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Midt i sommerferien 2024 afholdt Centre for Exolife Sciences på Københavns Universitet en konference om liv i universet. Konferencen havde været under forberedelse i fire år og omfattede 100 af de førende eksperter i exoplanetarisk liv. Med andre ord - Findes der liv uden for den jordklode vi lever på?
Et tidligere interview med to af deltagerne af konferencen har været bragt under overskriften "Exoplanetary life conference 2024"
I dette interview taler videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett med professor Uffe Gråe Jørgensen som er idemager og initiativtager til konferencen.
Photo credit: Jens Degett
Podcasten er støttet af Otto Mønsteds Fond og Thomas B. Thriges Fond. -
Senioringeniør Hans Jensen fra Terma fortæller om hvordan den danske elektronik-virksomhed Terma kom med i det internationale rumkapløb tilbage i 1960erne og nu leverer elektronik til nogle af de mest spektakulære missioner i rummet nogensinde.
Der er tale om en helt række af missioner, hvor dansk elektronik har spillet en afgørende rolle for meget præcis styring af satellitter over meget store afstande i solsystemet. Den avancerede teknik skal virke fejlfrit inden for minutter selv om satellitten har været 10 år undervejs.
Det er vidrnskabsjournalist Jens Degett som interviewer senioringeniør Hans Jensen fra Terma.
Foto kredit: Jens Degett, © Science Stories ApS.
Podcasten er en del af vores projekt Historier om Dansk Rumforskning støttet af Otto Mønsteds Fond og Thomas B. Thriges Fond. -
Center for Exolife Sciences at the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen organised this week a conference under the theme "Are we a unique species on a unique planet or are we just the ordinary standard?" We may already have detected traces of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet called K2 18b. During four days in Copenhagen 100 researchers were discussing how we interpret signs of life outside our planet.
In this podcast science journalist Jens Degett is interviewing professor Nikku Madhusudhan from University of Cambridge on exoplanetary atmosphere analysis. and former NASA Chief Historian and Director of the NASA History Officer Steven Dick on conspiracy aliens in the media.
Photo credit: Jens Degett
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For nylig var det amerikanske tidsskrift Science ude med en
artikel om store mængder kulbrinter omkring skive-dannelsen ved en meget lille stjerne.
Foto kredit: Jens Degett
For at forstå hvorfor det er vigtigt, er videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett taget ind på Niels Bohr Instituttet hvor han taler med Professor Jes Kristian Jørgensen.
Podcasten er støttet af Otto Mønsteds Fond og Thomas B. Thriges Fond
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This is a story of human ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and greed. If we do not learn from this history, we are just as doomed among the species on Earth as the Great Auk.
The Great Auk was once a very common bird in the northern hemisphere. The bird could not fly, it was clumsy on land and was easy to catch for sailors and people who used their feathers. Professor Gisli Pálsson has found the description of how the last Auks were hunted down and killed.
This story was written by egg collector John Wolley and ornithologist Alfred Newton, during their visit to Iceland in the summer of 1858, ten years after the Auk disappeared. The story is both a tragedy, but it is also a symbolic story about how greed and ignorance can result in the extinction of important animals with major consequences for the food chain and an ecological balance forever.
If this extinction of animals and ecosystems continues, the balance of nature could even threaten man. Videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett talked with med professor Gisli Pálsson fra Islands University. -
We are used to think about the universe as a structure which started with a Big Bang and then expanded. Sir Roger Penrose, who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, has developed an alternative theory of the universe based on Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity which is called "Conformal Cyclic Cosmology". In this new model we don’t have one single Big Bang, but an iteration of infinite cycles (or aeons) of expansion and cooling, each beginning with a “big bang” and ending in a “big crunch”.
Science Journalist Jens Degett interviews Professor Niels Obers, Director of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) and professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, on Roger Penrose’s theory and how much evidence is needed in order to change the general view of a central paradigm which is written in our school textbooks. What if Penrose is right? What consequences or perspectives will it have for us? -
When someone begins to study the evolution of the universe and the laws of physics, one easily comes to wonder how strange it is that humans and life exist, and that we are able to observe the universe.
If the laws and constants of nature were just a little bit different, the occurrence of life would be unthinkable.
However, we can state that we are here, and this raises a number of other issues, such as: Has the universe always been able to sustain life? Will the universe continue to sustain the existence of life in the future ? Are we just one of many universes that exist in parallel?
Science Journalist Jens Degett from Science Stories talks to Professor Niels Obers, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
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Entanglement is here to stay. The podcast was recorded just after the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. This Nobel Prize was shared between Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, which underlines the importance and the recognition of quantum physics and its strange properties. In particular, entanglement is expected to impact our everyday life very soon. But from proof of concept to practical application there is still way to go.
Science Journalist Jens Degett interviewed Niels Obers, Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at the Niels Bohr Institute (UCPH) and Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), about entanglement and its implications for society. -
Professor Eske Willerslev fra Globe Institute på Københavns Universitet har fået en bevilling på 500 millioner kr. fra Novo Nordisk Fonden og 85 millioner kr. fra Wellcome Trust.
I en samtale med videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett forklarer Eske Willerslev hvordan DNA har særlige egenskaber som gør det muligt at bevare intakte stumper af op til 2 millioner år gammelt DNA og gøre det muligt at kortlægge den flora og fauna, som har eksisteret tilbage i tiden.
De indsamlede data skal blandt andet bruges til at forstå hvordan planter og dyr har tilpasset sig forskellige økologiske miljøer i forskellige perioder.
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For 4 et halvt år siden i januar 2020 lavede jeg en podcast med professor Lone Simonsen fra Roskilde Universitet om Den Spanske Syge.
Jeg tænkte, at selv om det var 100 år siden Den Spanske Syge, som skyldtes en influenzavirus, slog mere end 50 millioner mennesker ihjel, så var der stadig en risiko for at helt en ny pandemi kunne blive et problem for verdens sundhed. Meget lidt havde jeg forestillet mig at vi mindre end to måneder efter podcasten blev optaget ville stå i en global pandemi, som ville ændre verden i vores tid.
I dag næsten fem år efter, er der stadig næsten hver dag lyttere, som streamer interviewet med Lone Simonsen på Science Stories, og der er noget at komme efter - for forskningen i Den Spanske Syge viser at vi har meget at lære om virus-pandemier. En pandemi kan ændre sig og komme tilbage i nye bølger med virkninger, som man ikke kan forudsige.
Selv om der har været flere begyndende skrækscenarier i de senere år med anslag til sygdomme som spreder sig over hele verden, så er vi ikke vant til at infektionssygdomme kan sprede sig med stor hast og ramme tusinder eller millioner af mennesker. Med det seneste coronavirus udbrud er vi blevet opmærksomme på, at et nys i Kina hurtigt kan få global effekt, —også i Europa.
Den sidste store globale pandemi, som virkeligt betød noget var den Spanske Syge, som i 1918 dræbte millioner af mennesker verden over. Selv om det er over 100 år siden er der stadig meget vi kan lære af den influenza.
Hvor farlige er disse globale infektionssygdomme egentlig? Hvad kan vi gøre for at beskytte os? Og er det rigtigt at militæret har eksperimenteret med virus til biologisk krigsførelse? Jeg stiller om til interviewet med Lone Simonsen som blev optaget i januar 2020 og sendt første gang den 4. februar.
Professor Lone Simonsen fra Roskilde Universitetscenter fortæller om de globale pandemier til videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett fra Science Stories.
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Space rocks from all over the world, including pristine material which has been collected directly from asteroids in our solar system is being analysed in Copenhagen by Professor Martin Bizzarro. He is Director of Center for Star and Planet Formation at University of Copenhagen and explains what we can learn from the material collected in space compared to meteorites on Earth. Will we have a space mining industry in the future? How old is our solar system really? Do we find traces of life on pristine asteroids in space?
Martin Bizzarro is interviewed by science journalists Jens Degett from Science Stories.
Photo: Jens Degett
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Gravitational waves is a strange phenomena which was predicted already by Albert Einstein.
To understand gravitational waves you need to understand gravitation. In this podcast professor Niels Obers describe gravitation in Newtonian terms and in the frame of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Both descriptions are incomplete but due to research with gravitational waves we may reach to a better understanding of these phenomena.
Since 2015 where gravitational waves were first detected with certainty, a number of new gravitational wave detectors are being build and researchers are learning more about the ripples in time, space and the fabric of the universe.
Science Journalist Jens Degett from Science Stories is interviewing professor Niels Obers from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen.
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Vi bruger rigtigt meget tid og energi på vores arbejdsplads, men hvor meget bliver vi påvirket af stress og dårligt arbejdsmiljø, og hvordan løser man problemerne når det går galt. Videnskabsjournalist Jens Degett er taget ud på det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø (NFA), hvor han taler med arbejdsmiljøforsker Jesper Kristiansen.
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