In September, the UN General Assembly will host a high-level dialogue on energy. Aarhus University will participate in efforts to identify green…

The countries around the Baltic Sea do not respect their binding international agreement to reduce agricultural pollution of the marine environment.

Soon, packaging for take-away foods might be completely based on local, sustainable materials instead of fossil-based products. In a new research…

Five talented researchers set to receive Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD Award for their PhD projects from 2020. They have all attracted…

Too much bread ends up in the trash, but what if, instead, it could return to the supermarket in as high-performing and fully biodegradable packaging?…

With a grant of DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers from Aarhus University are aiming to find out how best to use naturally…

Professor Charlotte Lauridsen will be replacing Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen as the head of department at the Department of Animal Science from next…

With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark of DKK 2 million, a team of researchers from Aarhus University hopes to develop a sensor made of…

The ReMeSh research project will increase our understanding of microorganisms' ability to convert CO2 into methane and it will form the basis for…

In a major EU project, researchers from Aarhus University will develop brand new technologies to process and analyse image and audio sensor data from…

A new innovative project aims to redraw the boundaries for fashion design, recycling technologies and consumer behaviour. Worn, damaged or new clothes…

It might be a good idea to look for inspiration in nature when designing load-bearing foundations for buildings. Researchers from Aarhus University…

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences have found that when farmers apply lime to acidic fields, they can…

Global climate change is putting pressure on our wheat crops with rising temperatures, droughts and higher concentrations of CO2, but the different…

The concept of storing renewable energy in stones has come one step closer to realisation with the construction of the GridScale demonstration plant.…

Overlap of food and the Danish list of threatened species (red list) can help to guide action plans and management of bees in nature areas in Denmark,…

A building at AU Foulum, which among other things houses a demonstration plant for biorefining, was ravaged by fire on Tuesday night. Despite damage…

Using a medical CT scanner in a laboratory experiment, researchers have assessed the ability of five crops to loosen heavily compacted soil caused by…

Using excess electricity from wind and solar power, and CO2 from biogas, a new research and development project is aiming to produce biomethane in a…

Researchers from the universities in Aarhus and Aalborg are working closely with leading companies to develop intelligent, battery-less sensors that…

As a policy support response to the Danish Agency for Agriculture, researchers from Aarhus University have created a model that, based on air…

Selin Kara is a new professor at the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University, where her research aims at using natural…

Aarhus University in Foulum leads a new and exciting project which is to form the basis for producing sustainable milk in the laboratory as an…

Professor Milena Corredig from the Department of Food Science at Aarhus University will receive a grant of DKK 30 million from the VILLUM FOUNDATION.…

Researchers from Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG) participate in a new EU Horizon2020 project – RUMIGEN – which aims at developing…

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

Researchers from the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Aarhus University are participating in an EUDP-supported development…

Limitations in models used by the IPCC in its calculations of possible pathways to climate-neutral energy production suggests that the potentials of…

We live in a world where we want our electronics to be flexible, bendable and stretchable apart from being intelligent. Printed electronics technology…

This April, anyone with an interest in health and natural science research of the very highest calibre will have the opportunity to meet a Nobel…

An article in the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information, criticises Aarhus University for being unwilling to disclose unpublished research data to a…

A Vietnamese, sustainable straw was the inspiration for two AU students' thriving business of sustainable packaging for restaurants and takeaways in…

Peat soils, paludiculture, and greenhouse gas emissions were the topics when Claudia Kalla Nielsen on 18 March won the annual Three Minute Thesis…

A large gathering of fish tempts harbour porpoises to search for food around oil and gas platforms, even though the noise from these industrial plants…

How do we know, if our food tastes good, or if it has already gone bad? The startup BettaSensing has created an innovative flavour recognition…

Engineers and biologists from Aarhus University have developed an intelligent light trap that can count insects and determine their species as they…

Technical Sciences has received 500 first-choice applications. This is fewer than last year. More people have applied for the new BScEng programmes in…

The right mix of the ultraviolet radiation UV-B and monochromatic light, i.e. light with only one wavelength, can boost germination of our cucumber…

The green transition, sustainable technologies and interdisciplinary solutions to society's greatest challenges are the focal points of AU…

Every year, a new growth layer is added to the narwhal’s spiralled tusk. The individual layers act as an archive of data that reveals what and where…

Using machine learning, researchers from Aarhus University have developed a method that can map the distribution of grass, clover, and weeds on the…

Denmark is a leading nation of knowledge when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. A workshop followed by an international…

We need to move beyond simple linear cause-effect relations of food production and consumption and take a more holistic view, a so-called food systems…

Artificial intelligence is a key word in two major EU-funded projects aiming to dramatically reduce the number of accidents and close call incidents…

The project, which is being run by Henrik Skov at the Department of Environmental Science, will receive DKK 16.7 million for research equipment and…

Two research projects at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, have received a total of DKK 28.9 million for research equipment and facilities to support…

As the sea ice shrinks in the Arctic, the plankton community that produces food for the entire marine food chain is changing. New research shows that…

Climate change is more pronounced in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet, raising concerns about the ability of wildlife to cope with the new…

A new global collaboration to examine new ways of producing green ammonia is to receive DKK 21 million from the EU framework programme for research…

296 new Bachelor of Engineering students started their programmes at Aarhus University last week. This is an increase of 31 per cent compared with the…

Aarhus University now has its new management for the engineering area in place, and on 1 March 2021, four heads of department will take up their…

A new study from Aarhus University shows that almost a third of the Danes have reduced or stopped their meat consumption. Among these are, in…

Aarhus University is to head development of the next generation of electric car batteries with a recharging time of just six minutes. The EU is…

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

Monday 18 January was demo day at Jydsk Emblem Fabrik A/S in Malling – a 135-year-old family-owned company, which was demonstrating an intelligent,…

A new grass weed species has in recent years become a bigger and bigger problem in winter cereals and grass seed crops. Knowledge about rattail fescue…

Scientists are combining artificial intelligence and advanced computer technology with biological know how to identify insects with supernatural…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted funding to a project to develop a multi-step system to treat water for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.…

The potential of autonomous solutions for offshore operations in the maritime sector is huge. The Danish drone company Upteko is collaborating with…

Researchers from Aarhus University aim to enable the use of data-driven deep learning models for wind farm flow simulations, optimization and control,…

At the turn of the year, Aarhus University has implemented an organisational change to open four new departments. This is part of work to enhance…

Using an unusual, light-dependent enzyme and a newly discovered enzymatic mechanism, researchers from Aarhus University and Massachusetts Institute of…

Kidney diseases, atherosclerosis, colon cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and neurological disorders are five global health problems that the…

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

What is a baking contest winner made of? Equal parts of pure joy of baking mixed with scientific curiosity is the recipe for Mads Eg Andersen, who…

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…

Researchers from Aarhus University have modelled the decarbonisation of the sector-coupled European energy system using very high-resolution data. The…

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…

Seagrass meadows the world over have vanished over the last 100 years. Danish eel grass meadows too are not growing as they did in the past. A new…

In collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University has developed photonic sensor…

As the new vice-president of the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE), Aarhus University will play an important role in European efforts…

A new cross-disciplinary centre will develop brain-machine interface technologies. One of the goals is to develop the next generation of technology to…

When the four new engineering departments open on 1 January 2021, they will have a transitional management until the appointment process for the new…

A new research project at Aarhus University will use Bayesian Neural Networks to model, analyse and understand trading behaviour in the world of…

There are lots of green, modern agricultural technologies, but they are used far too little. With funding of DKK 15 million, a number of European…

ReDoCO2 is a new Danish development project, which the Innovation Fund Denmark supports with DKK 24.3 million. kr. Researchers from the Department of…

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

In a new international cross disciplinary study, researchers have used artificial intelligence to analyse large amounts of historical photos from WW2.…

Professor Martyn Tranter from the Department of Environmental Science has been selected to receive the prestigious Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal…

A pan-European consortium consisting of vehicle manufacturers, research institutes and suppliers have joined forces to set up a new research and…

The Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate nonlinear effects in…

At a board meeting on 8 October, the AU board gave the green light to establish four new engineering departments at the university. The purpose of the…

Danmarks Sportsfiskerforbund (Danish Sports Fishing Association) has just awarded its Nature and Environment award, which is presented for…

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

After three years of strenuous effort, the Faculty of Technical Sciences (Tech) has now obtained documentation for the high quality in its public…

Professor Ole Hertel is switching career path from being one of Denmark's leading researchers in air quality to taking up a position as the head of…

A new research project is aiming to develop a camera-based separation system that can separate plastic waste according to type. The machine will be…

Intelligent marine robots open up a wide range of possibilities in the vast unknown areas below sea level, covering more than 70 per cent of the…

A large-scale industrial and academic collaboration project between Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality and Aarhus University is 'a huge opportunity', says…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has granted DKK 15 million from its interdisciplinary synergy programme to project DRAMA. With researchers from both Nat…

It is possible to produce healthier alternatives to the processed meat products, which are in high demand in Denmark as well as in the rest of Europe,…

Single-celled algae generate approximately 50% of the world's oxygen production. Despite the huge prevalence of these algae and in the world's oceans,…

An international research team has looked at life on the surfaces of glaciers. Their work may turn out to challenge our previous understanding about…

This year, Technical Sciences welcomes 1,131 new students on the engineering degree programmes and agrobiology. Due to corona, orientation days are a…

A new project, supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark, will make it possible to read data directly from compressed IoT data. The project is…

A citizen's council is to be set up with 99 randomly selected Danish citizens as part of the government's new climate legislation. Professor Jørgen E.…