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.

Photo credit: Jens Degett, © Science Stories ApS

The Universe from the Dark Ages to Life

DNA and RNA sequence analysis enable researchers to form a total overview of which species of microorganisms and parasites live with humans, animals and plants. It is not just in our gut where microorganisms are playing a role in our digestion. Also on the skin and all mucous membranes, in the mouth and all the way down into the hair follicles, we live together with parasites and microorganisms which help to shape our lives and our development.

This knowledge makes it possible to see organisms in a far more holistic perspective, which provides a far better understanding of the factors that have evolutionarily shaped the species as they now appear in nature.

In this podcast, Science Journalist Jens Degett talks to Professor Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert from the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH) at the University of Copenhagen. The center received DKK 67.7 million from the Danish National Research Foundation.

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[Best of] Hologenomics: A holistic picture of evolution

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.


Gravitational waves is supported by Otto Mønsted Foundation og Thomas B. Thriges Foundation.

Gravitational waves

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.

Best of Entanglement

[Best of] Entanglement

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.

Photo credit: Jens Degett, © Science Stories ApS

[Best of] From the Dark ages to life

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.

Physics in a biological world

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