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All organisms from fruit flies to humans share the same mechanism for controlling the day and night rhythms also called the circadian rhythms. This mechanism is considered fundamental to all advanced life forms, and it has a surprising feature. It binds us genetically to live on earth. Michael Rosbash received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2017 for the discovery of the circadian rhythms together with Jeffrey Hall and Michael Young. He is a professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Brandeis University. In 2019 he was invited by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters to give the nineteenth Royal Academy Nobel Laureate Lecture in Copenhagen and was interviewed by science journalist Jens Degett. Photo credit: Chris Heller for Science Stories. Release date: 10 September 2025 [Best of] Circadian Rhythms By Science Stories is

June 2025 Marked an important leap in Danish space history. A satellite was launched into orbit on 23 June from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch was initiated by the Danish and Swedish Defense ministries and several space research industries and research institutions. The satellite is called Bifrost. And it has a dual mission. This time Science journalist Jens Degett talking to The Danish Defense specialist Martin Laimonis. In the end of the interview there is lot of information and hints about how satellites are being built and how to get your own project funded.

We are used to telescopes as instruments on Earth looking out on space or instruments in space looking at even more distant objects in outer space. The Einstein Telescope is very different and will be build deep under the surface of the Earth. Over 2,000 researchers participate in the international organisation and there is a competition between different countries about where to build it. One of the researchers who are involved is Professor Niels Obers from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Niels Obers is telling Science journalist Jens Degett what the new instrument is able to reveal when it is finished? Niels Obers also describe gravitation in Newtonian terms and in the frame of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Both descriptions are incomplete but due to research with gravitational waves we may reach a better understanding of these phenomena

Center for Exolife Sciences at the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen organised a conference under the theme "Are we a unique species on a unique planet or are we just the ordinary standard?" We may already have detected traces of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet called K2 18b. During four days in Copenhagen 100 researchers were discussing how we interpret signs of life outside our planet. In this podcast Science Journalist Jens Degett is interviewing Professor Nikku Madhusudhan from University of Cambridge on exoplanetary atmosphere analysis. and former NASA Chief Historian and Director of the NASA History Officer Steven Dick on conspiracy aliens in the media. Follow Science Stories on: Apple Podcast, SoundCloud, Spotify, Spreaker, Google Podcasts, Podimo, and Instagram.

Though we may not hear so much in the media about Mars these days, there is still a lot of really interesting research on the red planet. The two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance are more than living up to their mission expectation but there are 7 other missions making new discoveries every day and a handful of new missions are on their way. Science Journalist Jens Degett is interviewing PhD Fellow Katrine Wulff Nicolaisen from Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the University of Copenhagen. She is working on a daily basis with the two rovers on mars and she is also working on a meteorite called Black Beauty which originates from mars.