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Astronomers observe a sunburst from the early universe – in 12 copies

With the powerful eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by Håkon Dahle at UiO observed straight into the bright and hot heart of a galaxy 11 billion years old in no less than 12 multiple, gravitationally lensed images. The finding casts light onto a crucial era in our universe’s history: the epoch of reionization.

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Slow loris study reveals: The human rhythm of sleep can be much older than expected

People typically sleep seven to eight hours in one stretch and stay awake for the rest of the day. Evolutionary scientists have assumed that this rhythm of sleep arose when our early ancestors went from being nocturnal to diurnal, but a new study of the Javan slow loris indicates that the human way of sleeping is much older.

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New map of the seabed reveal more deposits than expected

The world’s great oceans are known to most people. Less well known is the seabed, and the fact that sediments are continually being deposited there. The recently updated map GlobSed shows 30 % more sediments on the seabed than previously assumed. A PhD Fellow at UiO has led the update.

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  • trond-helge-torsvik-350px GEO-professors from UiO on list of global highly cited researchers Nov. 21, 2019 3:30 PM

    Professor of geophysics Trond H. Torsvik from CEED and the Department of Geosciences, and Professor II of meteorology Michael Schultz, the GEO-department and The Norwegian Meteorological Institute appear on the Web of Science Group's list over global highly cited researchers. The list is based on citation on the 1 % top articles by field for 2008-18.

  • ingrid-anell-507px Successfull “Outside the BoCCS” seminar – The role of law in CCS deployment Nov. 19, 2019 4:07 PM

    Several of Norway’s legal experts on CCS deployment took to the podium at the Science Libray on Thursday 14.11.19 at the “Outside the BoCCS” seminar. The seminar was streamed, find the link here.

  • ep2scienceestsouvik The "Science of EST" ep.2: Convection, advection, and solar granulation Nov. 19, 2019 10:24 AM

    With the advent of the 4-m European Solar Telescope, the surface of the Sun will be observed with unprecedented detail. Such measurements will help us understand the twisting motions responsible for the generation of vortex flows and waves that propagate higher up in the solar atmosphere.

  • nettkurs-bilde-507px The landscape after a severe meteorite strike Nov. 12, 2019 3:52 PM

    – Join us as a crater detective!

    A new online knowledge resource “Large, round structures in Norwegian nature” is developed by researchers at the Dept. of Geosciences.

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