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Breakthrough in preventing maternal malaria 2010.02.04 Researchers have synthesized the entire protein that is responsible for life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and their unborn children...

Play yourself healthy 2010.02.02 A new experiment on inactive men with high blood pressure shows that just 3 months of soccer twice a week is more effective than the doctor's usual advice on healthy diet and exercise...

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  Hunger for stimulation driven by dopamine in the brain

  2010.02.01

  Dopamine's action upon the brain explains why people who constantly crave stimulation are in danger …

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  University online courses yield impressive results

  2010.01.29

  A strategic commitment to distance learning has proved a success at Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), …

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  Innovative Kierkegaard Research

  2010.01.27

  When the first semester of 2010 starts, the University of Copenhagen will come to include the …

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  Master of Disaster students flown to Haiti

  2010.01.22

  A special postgraduate degree course in disaster management has been run jointly by the University …

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  Scholars will explode the myth of The New Testament

  2010.01.21

  Bible scholars across the world have for many years believed that two of the Gospels of the New Testament …

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  Scientists begin search for super Aloe vera

  2010.01.13

  From prehistoric times, Aloe vera has been know for its healing effects - now, using DNA technology, …

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  The mammoths' swan song revised

  2009.12.17

  Woolly mammoths and prehistoric horses grazed on the North American plains for several thousand years …

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  New York Mayor visits Green Lighthouse

  2009.12.16

  Yesterday New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Denmark's first public CO2 neutral building. Green …

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  Focus on forests' importance to climate

  2009.12.09

  Forest & Landscape will be there when the international Forest Day 3 conference takes a close look …

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  Language centre to assess researchers' English skills

  2009.12.04

  The Faculty of Life Sciences recently decided that all researchers who teach in English-medium programmes …

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  Lykke Friis new Minister of Climate and Energy

  2009.12.01

  On Tuesday 24 November, Prorector Lykke Friis was appointed Minister of Climate and Energy by Prime …

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  Consensus among world's leading sports researchers

  2009.11.30

  Watch online videocasts of all the presentations and check out the main recommendations from the event... …

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  If he knows where you live, he knows the colour of your lungs

  2009.11.30

  Major cities around the world use the modelling of Ole Hertel, when they want to asses how badly their …

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  Sustainable monoculture fungus-farming in termite societies

  2009.11.27

  Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it …

• New global research programme to combat climate change

  2009.11.12

  In the coming years, a large-scale research programme involving international research centres and …

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  Orphaned army ant workers help their neighbours

  2009.11.06

  When the ant queen dies, colonies tend to disappear quickly. This has puzzled naturalists for a long …

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  Danish nanowires have great potential

  2009.11.02

  Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology …

• Train less and be better

  2009.11.02

  Reducing the volume of training and introducing speed endurance training can improve not only short-term …