Researchers developed a versatile remote gaming interface that allowed external experts as well as hundreds of citizen scientists all over the world through multiplayer collaboration and in real time to optimize a quantum gas experiment in a lab at Aarhus University. Surprisingly, both teams quickly used the interface to dramatically improve upon the previous best…
Mammals Cannot Evolve Fast Enough to Escape Current Extinction Crisis
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature’s built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3 to 5 million years to recover. There…
Oil Rigs May End Their Days as Valuable Artificial Reefs
A large group of international researchers have just published a scientific article in which they encourage environmental authorities across the globe to rethink the idea of removing oil rigs, wind turbines and other installations in the sea when they are worn out. A submerged camera at an old worn out oil rig shows an extensive…
Heat Loss From the Earth Triggers Ice Sheet Slide Towards The Sea
Greenland’s ice sheet is becoming smaller and smaller. The melting takes place with increased strength and at a speed that no models have previously predicted. Today, in the esteemed journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources present results that, for the first time, show that…
Nanobodies Derived from Llamas Solve Crystal Structure Issues
Aarhus University scientists have developed miniature antibodies (nanobodies) that can be labeled on certain amino acids (Acta Crystallographica Section D, “Introducing site-specific cysteines into nanobodies for mercury labelling allows de novo phasing of their crystal structures”). This provides a direct route for solving new X-ray crystal structures of protein complexes important for gaining mechanistic understanding…
