Researchers from Aarhus University have led a team that has discovered one of the ways legume plants balance nitrogen acquisition from the soil with…

An international team led by researchers from Aarhus University have discovered how plant receptors recognize specific carbohydrate signaling…

The Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD) has awarded DKK 280 million to 55 green research ideas, 15 of which are from Aarhus University. Five…

Postdoc Laura Stidsholt from the Department of Biology is one of the grant recipients under the Villum International Postdoc talent programme. The DKK…

Denmark’s first Biodiversity Council has been set up to advise the government and the Danish Parliament on nature initiatives. The Minister for the…

Legumes can make agriculture greener, both by carbon fixing, but more specifically because they do not need artificial fertilizers supplying nitrogen,…

The modern university is closely intertwined with the surrounding community. This does not mean that the freedom of research is compromised, writes…

Researchers at Aarhus University have elucidated structures of a sugar transport protein that drives transport of sugar in plants. The study provides…

A large part of the world's population has fragments of neanderthal genes in their DNA. The length of these fragments provides new insight into how…

The Villum Foundation grants DKK 6 million for two interdisciplinary research projects at Aarhus University - more specifically the Department of…

A new, unique research centre has been launched. The Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center is to be established with a grant of DKK 630 million…

The Faculty of Natural Sciences (Nat) is a good place for daring ideas that can and will change our perception of the world around us. The VILLUM…

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany have discovered that root commensal…

Det Fjernstyrede UndervisningsTeleskop (FUT) is a free offer from Aarhus University to the Danish educational community. Pupils will be able to…

A total of 14 new AIAS-COFUND Marie Sk?odowska-Curie fellows from around the world has been selected in a thorough international, triple peer-review…

On Wednesday, 25 August 2021, a multitude of new students started their studies at Aarhus University, of whom the Faculty of Natural Sciences welcomed…

Providing clean water and sanitation while still protecting natural environments is one of greatest challenges in modern society, one of the UN…

The human body's attempt to eradicate invading viruses can eventually become fatal. With the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is in many cases…

A paper from Jørgen Kjems and colleagues published in Nature Communications presents a new method to determine the full-length sequence and isoform…

In a joint collaboration, researchers from Aarhus, Cambridge and Warsaw have characterized how the essential mRNA poly(A) tails are synthesized in the…

The phenomenon of citizen science is taking an ever more important role in a number of research projects all over the world. Aarhus University has…

Researchers have re-examined the last meal of the famous Tollund Man bog body, consumed shortly before he died around 400 BC. The analysis reveals…

Biologists from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen have studied the environmental DNA in water samples collected simultaneously by 370…

Faba beans are an excellent source of food protein, but about 4% of the world’s population are afflicted by favism, which renders them sensitive to…

There is still so much we don’t know about the earth. One of the blind spots can be found in northeast Greenland, and it is relevant to climate change…

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ebbe S. Andersen who is awarded the Danish polymer prize, Elastyrenprisen 2021, for being an internationally…

One of the Nordic region's most prestigious research prizes, the Anders Jahre Prize, goes to Professor Poul Nissen from Aarhus University. Poul Nissen…

Researchers from Aarhus University and Caltech have developed a method to build much larger, though still nanosize, RNA scaffolds than previously…

This summer, Aarhus University will welcome Professor Anja-Verena Mudring when she joins the Department of Chemistry. Professor Mudring is one of the…

Why spend time wading through streams and rivers to catch insects and other small animals with finely meshed nets, when all you need is their DNA in a…

Every year, the Aarhus University Research Foundation awards PhD prizes to five young researchers with extraordinary talent. The five award recipients…

A research group at Aarhus University has found a way to transform a naturally occurring substance class that is toxic for both bacteria and mammals…

A new partnership between Skrydstrup Group (iNANO & Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University), Vestas, Olin, and the Danish Technological Institute…

Chemically synthesized short DNA sequences are extremely important ingredients with countless uses in research laboratories, hospitals and in…

Professor of biology Signe Normand from Aarhus University is one of the five recipients of the Elite Research Prize for 2021. There are also Elite…

Andreas Sommerfeldt, PhD in chemistry and nanotechnology from Department of Chemistry and iNano at Aarhus University has won the PhD Cup final. The…

Professor Birgit Schiøtt has been reappointed as the head of the Department of Chemistry on a three-year contract starting when her current five-year…

Four early career researchers at Nat have just received grants from the Lundbeck Foundation as part of their postdoc programmes. The grants will…

Postdoc Andrii Bugai from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives the highly prestigious Marie Sk?odowska-Curie…

Nanomaterials have become indispensable for modern life, and our lives increasingly depend on nanomaterials with defined structures and properties. A…

A new, national pioneer center for artificial intelligence research is expected to open at the end of 2021.

From 1 June 2021, Associate Professor and Head of Department Erik Østergaard Jensen has been reappointed for another three years as head of the…

Again this year, Aarhus University is seeing an increase in the numbers applying via quota 2, and at Natural Sciences, applications are stable in…

In two new scientific articles, two geologists from Aarhus University have demonstrated that strontium from agricultural lime runs off from upper soil…

Jørgen Kjems from iNANO and the Department of Molecular Biology at AU and the AU spinout company, OMIICS, are partners in a new consortium, PRIME,…

For the first time ever, the Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted project funding earmarked specifically for basic research within the natural and…

Glycine can stimulate or inhibit neurons in the brain, thereby controlling complex functions. Unraveling the three-dimensional structure of the…

Following a grant from the National Committee for Research Infrastructures (NUFI) of DKK 25 million, an Aarhus research group headed by Professor Bo…

The bats' echolocation is more advanced than previously thought. Bats muffle their screams almost to a whisper when hunting, so echoes from trees and…

New paper in Nature Physics: A collaboration in the “Center for Complex Quantum Systems” at Aarhus University has successfully observed the formation…

Postdoc Thibaud Dieudonné from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives the highly prestigious Marie…

Associate Professor Frans Mulder is heading a new consortium, BOUNDLESS, funded by the Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme of the Novo Nordisk…

After seven years of intense research, a research group from Aarhus University has succeeded - through an interdisciplinary collaboration - in…

In a recently published scientific article, a research group led by the Stellar Astrophysics Centre at Aarhus University describes a very special…

As quantum technology makes its inroad, we need to be able to use new materials to capture and tame the promising new opportunities offered by the…

The Lundbeck Foundation is giving the DANDRITE neuroscience centre at Aarhus University funding to spend on research up to 2028. The funds worth DKK…

Ten years ago, researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, reported the discovery of centimeter-long cable bacteria, that live by conducting an…

Two research projects at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, have received a total of DKK 61.6 million for research equipment and facilities to support…

A scientific article published in Nature in 2016 has been the subject of criticism from peers for a number of years, and it has given rise to an…

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has just granted almost DKK 37 million to a targeted effort to unravel the importance of the ongoing…

Although the protein ITIH4 is found in large amounts in the blood, its function has so far been unknown. By combining many different techniques,…

Professor Jens-Christian Svenning conducts research into the dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems to reveal the factors that shape, threaten and…

With a grant of DKK 15 million (EUR 2M) from the Green Development and Demonstration Programme (GUDP) - a programme under the Ministry of Food,…

Since 2011 the Young Investigator-programme from the VILLUM Foundation has supported the carriers of young and ambitious researchers. This year two…

Associate Professor Magnus Kjærgaard participates in a new consortium, BOUNDLESS, headed by Associate Professor Frans Mulder and funded by the…

Professor Lars Arge, Department of Computer Science, passed away 23 December 2020 at the age of just 53.

At the Faculty of Natural Sciences (NAT) 22 researchers have received grants from two of the Carlsberg Foudation programmes for a total sum of DKK…

Results published in Science from Aarhus University describe how legumes pick up special signalling molecules to distinguish between harmful and…

Andrew Murray and Mads Faurschou Knudsen from the Department of Geoscience, together with colleagues from DTU and the universities in Oslo, Uppsala,…

In a joint collaboration, Danish and German researchers have characterized a cellular activity that protects our cells from potentially toxic…

The Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma plays a major role in research by Nordic astronomers, and in the education of new astronomers. It has been…

The groundbreaking open research collaboration, so far between Aarhus University and nine pharmaceutical and biotech companies, ODIN, is now up and…

Researchers at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University and the Natural History Museum in Aarhus have now shown that cow pads contain DNA from…

Researchers from Aarhus and Copenhagen universities have shown that environmental DNA - the method of analysing DNA from an environmental sample to…

Associate Professor Bjørn Panyella Pedersen from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Aarhus University receives an ERC Consolidator…

Over the next four years, a major new EU project will examine how noise from shipping affects the marine environment and identify solutions to make…

Peter Henriksen, senior researcher at the Department of Bioscience will take up the position as the new head of WATEC on 1 December 2020. The research…

The sperm whale is the world's largest toothed predator, and they consume as many fish and squid as the entire global fishing industry. However, we…

With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR – which allows direct editing of our genes – evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to…

The Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded some of the foremost research talents, Sapere Aude research leader grants. There are three…

Aarhus University is collaborating with three Danish universities to establish a national satellite programme in collaboration with the Danish…

In a screening for a functional impact to the neuronal differentiation process, Danish researchers identified a specific circular RNA, circZNF827,…

Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) has just published the 65 research projects on the green transition that have been awarded grants. At the…

Georg Bruun and Nikolaj Thomas Zinner have both been appointed professors in theoretical physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus…

Aarhus University Press publishes a revised translation of 'Camp Century – The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the…

Postdoc Line Meldgaard Madsen from the Department of Geoscience has received more than DKK 2.3 million for her research project. The grant is from the…

With the grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, main applicant Poul Nissen and colleagues from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and…

VILLUM Experiment has just awarded grants to a number of researchers, who each represent innovative approaches to their research areas, and who can…

AU researchers will receive a total of DKK 119.1 million to establish research centres to find research-based solutions to future-proofing…

Kristine Kilså is to be vice-dean for education and David Lundbek Egholm is to be vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences. This…

Kristine Kilså is to be the new vice-dean for education at Natural Sciences from 1 December. Kristine comes from a position as the head of studies…

David Lundbek Egholm will be the new vice-dean for research from 1 November. He comes from a position as a professor of climate and ice dynamics at…

What happens to the nanoparticles when they are injected into the bloodstream, for example, to destroy solid tumours? With new results published in…