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2012.05.14
Turkish author recieves Denmarks largest culture award. The Sonning Prize is given to a person who has
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2012.05.09
A new PhD thesis shows that a film series like Twilight replaces traditional religion and enhances interest
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2012.04.30
The shift in India's image is not merely a result of economic growth figures alone – it has resulted
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2012.03.01
New research shows that some Scandinavian conifers survived the inhospitable ice age climate likely
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2012.02.20
Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert,
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2012.02.20
Researchers have discovered a natural substance in a Chilean avocado plant that is active in combination
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2012.02.03
New research shows that just a few hours of schooling a week markedly effects the health of children
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2012.01.19
The number of new cases of blindness and severe visual loss in Denmark has been halved during the last
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2011.12.01
Researchers who have been following Danish HIV patients for more than fifteen years now see that the
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2011.12.01
A new research project will bring together an unprecedented range of young researchers to examine the
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2011.11.02
Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals? University
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2011.10.20
An astonishing new chapter has been added to North American prehistory with research showing that the
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2011.10.19
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels,
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2011.10.02
Playing street football two or three times a week could halve the risk of early death in homeless men,
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2011.09.07
Drought and hunger are not the only things raging on the Horn of Africa. The countries are also torn
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2011.08.25
Researchers have examined a number of plants which are used for illegal abortions in Tanzania. Several
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2011.08.02
For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The Arctic Ocean – probably less than half
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2011.07.11
Researchers from Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen have discovered why malaria parasites
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2011.07.11
In the remote region of Pamir in Afghanistan two University of Copenhagen students have tracked antihistaminic
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2011.05.12
On 13 May the University of Copenhagen appoints world famous American author Paul Auster honorary alumnus.
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2011.03.28
Danish researchers, some from the University of Copenhagen, have discovered that very early symptoms
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2011.03.03
The University of Copenhagen and three other Danish universities are part of the largest grant ever
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2011.01.27
New research from the University of Copenhagen and Harvard University has found that infants understand
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2011.01.07
Contrary to the increasing stringencies on immigration, a new study shows that Danes are in fact growing
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2010.10.19
A new PhD thesis provides a voice for the countless, silent victims of civil war and conflict, the
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2010.09.07
Today, DNA researcher Professor Eske Willerslev and his team open the doors of their new Centre for
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2010.07.28
Bedrock has been reached at the deep ice core drilling site NEEM on the Greenland Ice Sheet at the
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2010.06.30
The soon-to-be-published and complete Danish translation of all the Icelandic sagas, a literary cornerstone
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2010.06.11
"Shut up and mind your own business". This code permeates the Danish prisons, where telling tales is
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2010.05.19
An international team of scientists have discovered that climate change played a major role in causing
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2010.04.21
Scholars at the Department of Scandinavian Research have received a scanner that can reveal hidden
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2010.04.06
Soccer is a pleasurable team sport that provides an all-round fitness and can be used as treatment
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2010.03.29
15,000 years ago the northern regions of the planet, from the coast of Portugal, right across Eurasia,
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2010.02.10
For the first time an ancient genome has been reconstructed in detail. The innovative technique can
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2010.02.02
A just published research experiment on inactive men with high blood pressure shows that just 3 months
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2010.01.29
A strategic commitment to distance learning has proved a success at Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE),
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2010.01.27
When the first semester of 2010 starts, the University of Copenhagen will come to include the best
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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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2009.12.17
Woolly mammoths and prehistoric horses grazed on the North American plains for several thousand years
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2009.12.04
The Faculty of Life Sciences recently decided that all researchers who teach in English-medium programmes
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2009.11.30
Watch online videocasts of all the presentations and check out the main recommendations from the event...
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2009.10.07
Through a UNIK grant of 120 million kroner the University will open its largest ever cross-disciplinary
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2009.10.02
New research shows that women benefit more from playing recreational soccer than from running when it
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2009.09.16
German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger is the recipient of the 2010 Sonning Prize, Denmark's most prestigious
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