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                    <title>Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon</title>
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                    <description>For over 20 million years, the landscape of Europe has been a tree-rich mosaic of grasslands, scrubs and more or less open woodlands with an abundance of wildflowers. A new study suggests that modern reforestation runs counter to the continent’s long-term ecological trajectory.</description>
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                    <author>Peter F. Gammelby</author>
                    

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                    <title>Genetic breakthrough could boost faba bean cultivation in colder climates</title>
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                    <description>With a newly identified genetic region in faba beans, researchers can now point to what makes the crop more robust in colder climates. The breakthrough could eventually create a stronger incentive to grow many more legumes, for example in Danish agricultural fields.</description>
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                    <author>Peter F. Gammelby</author>
                    

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                    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:23:27 +0100</pubDate>
                    <title>Researchers recreate nature’s molecules to develop the antibiotics of the future</title>
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                    <description>Researchers in Aarhus are recreating and improving nature’s own molecules. This could have a major impact on future disease treatments. At a time when antibiotic resistance is becoming an increasing concern, there is a need for new “super natural compounds” that can eventually be developed into effective antibiotics.</description>
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                    <author>Michaela Stigaard Thulesen</author>
                    

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                    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:22:46 +0100</pubDate>
                    <title>An ancient biological mystery solved: How bird retinas function without oxygen</title>
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                    <description>A research team led from Aarhus University has, after eight years of detective work, uncovered how bird retinas function without oxygen—even though they rank among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom. In the long term, this may have implications for the treatment of conditions such as stroke.</description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                    <title>New Head of Department of Mathematics: “The department is my lifeblood”</title>
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                    <author>Michaela Louise Thulesen</author>
                    

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:21:33 +0100</pubDate>
                    <title>Breakthrough: Now we can detect specific DNA with a phone</title>
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                    <description>A Danish research group has designed proteins that search for specific DNA sequences and produce light if they find them. A light that a phone&#039;s camera easily captures.</description>
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                    <title>A Clear Successor in the Glass Workshop</title>
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                    <description>The flames have been lit once again in the glassblower’s workshop. Jule Janssen succeeds Chris Kondrup at the Department of Chemistry as the country’s only scientific glassblower at a university.</description>
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                    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
                    <title>Mystery solved: How Europe’s largest bat catches and eats passerines mid-air</title>
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                    <description>After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe’s largest bat doesn’t just eat small birds – it hunts and captures them more than a kilometre above the ground. And it eats them without landing.</description>
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                    <title>We are close to proving life on Mars – but still 11 billion dollars short</title>
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                    <description>A new study of leopard-spotted rocks on Mars presents the most convincing evidence yet for life beyond Earth. However, according to a professor of astrobiology, it is almost impossible to make further progress in the current political climate.</description>
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                    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:59:47 +0200</pubDate>
                    <title>New Danish technology could make windows intelligent — entirely without power</title>
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                    <description>Researchers from Aarhus University have developed a new light-responsive hybrid material which, when embedded in window glass, automatically adapts to the intensity of sunlight and regulates heat radiation entering buildings. The technology works without electricity or electronics and has the potential to reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions from cooling, especially in modern glass buildings.</description>
                    <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Et nyt dansk forskningsgennembrud kan i fremtiden gøre bygninger langt mere energieffektive. Forskere fra Aarhus Universitets Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) har udviklet et lysfølsomt hybridmateriale baseret på såkaldte sølvnanoringe, som automatisk reagerer på solens intensitet og regulerer, hvor meget varme der trænger ind gennem vinduer.</p>
<p>De mikroskopiske sølvringe blokerer mere og mere for nær-infrarødt lys, jo stærkere sollyset er, uden, at glasset bliver mindre gennemsigtigt.</p>
<p>Teknologien fungerer uden brug af strøm, sensorer eller elektronik – og kan potentielt anvendes som vinduesbelægning i bl.a. kontorbyggeri og moderne boligbyggeri, hvor glasarealer fylder meget, og hvor varmeindstråling fra solen kan være en udfordring. Det gør løsningen særlig relevant i en tid, hvor energiforbruget til køling overstiger behovet for opvarmning i store dele af verden.</p>
<h3>Kommercielt potentiale</h3>
<p>Teknologien er stadig på forskningsstadiet, men Aarhus Universitet har allerede indsendt en patentansøgning, hvilket vidner om det kommercielle potentiale.</p>
<p>– Vi har udviklet en kombination af materialer, som ændrer sine optiske egenskaber i takt med sollyset. Det tillader varme at slippe ind, når solen står lavt, men blokerer for varmestråling midt på dagen, hvor behovet for køling ellers stiger. Og det hele sker helt uden strøm, siger ph.d.-studerende Xavier Baami Gonzáles.</p>
<p>Resultaterne er netop publiceret i det anerkendte videnskabelige tidsskrift <em>Advanced Functional Materials</em>.</p>
<p>"Denne type løsninger er afgørende, hvis vi skal bygge mere klimavenligt uden at gå på kompromis med komfort og dagslys. Vores håb er, at hybridmaterialet på sigt kan integreres i smarte vinduesløsninger og finde vej til kommerciel anvendelse," siger Duncan Sutherland, der leder forskningsprojektet.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p><table class="au_table_style2-lightblue" summary> 	<tbody class="au_table_style2-lightblue"> 		<tr> 			<td colspan="2" rowspan="1" scope><h3>Supplerende oplysninger</h3></td> 		</tr> 		<tr> 			<td colspan="2" rowspan="1">Vi bestræber os på, at alle vores artikler lever op til Danske Universiteters&nbsp;<a href="https://dkuni.dk/analyser-og-notater/danske-universiteters-principper-for-god-forskningskommunikation/" target="_self" data-htmlarea-external="1">principper for god forskningskommunikation</a>. På den baggrund er artiklen suppleret med følgende oplysninger:<br> 			&nbsp;</td> 		</tr> 		<tr> 			<td><strong>Finansiering</strong></td> 			<td>Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond</td> 		</tr> 		<tr> 			<td><strong>Læs mere</strong></td> 			<td>Den videnskabelige artikel&nbsp;<em><a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202518295" target="_self">Thermoplasmonic Nanorings for Passive Solar-Responsive&nbsp;Smart Windows in Energy-Efficient Building Applications</a>&nbsp;</em>i Advanced Functional Materials</td> 		</tr> 		<tr> 			<td><strong>Kontakt</strong></td> 			<td><strong>Duncan Sutherland</strong><br> 			Professor, iNANO, Aarhus Universitet<br> 			Tlf: <a href="tel:+4523385789">+45 23 38 57 89</a><br> 			Mail: <a href="mailto:duncan@inano.au.dk">duncan@inano.au.dk</a><br> 			&nbsp;</td> 		</tr> 	</tbody> </table><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded>
                    
                    
                        
                            
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