sustainability 2024.04.26 Fixin’ to be flexitarian: Scrap fish and invasive species can liven up vegetables Greening the way we eat needn’t mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to “boring” vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G.…
Atoms 2024.04.22 Superradiant atoms could push the boundaries of how precisely time can be measured Superradiant atoms can help us measure time more precisely than ever. In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen present a new method for measuring the time interval, the second, mitigating some of th…
CLIMATE 2024.04.18 Increased CO2 emissions from world’s tundra surprise researchers As they warm, Arctic tundra environments will probably release 30% more CO2 than they do today – an increase that is nearly four times more than previously estimated. This is the conclusion of a large international stud…
Quantum Data 2024.04.15 Internet can achieve quantum speed with light saved as sound Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with…
species 2024.04.12 Iconic savanna mammals face genetic problems due to fences and roads Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic decay in those herds…
poverty 2024.04.11 Economist: Tens of billions of dollars in forest products are being overlooked Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests – including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade statistics, their economic valu…
Marine Biology 2024.04.09 Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones" Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The researchers from University of Copenhagen and Lund University suspect…
Diversified farming 2024.04.05 Major study reports that people and environment both benefit from diversified farming, while bottom lines also thrive Mixing livestock and crops, integrating flower strips and trees, water and soil conservation and much more: Massive new global study led by the University of Copenhagen and University of Hohenheim, has examined the…
Quantum Particles 2024.04.04 “It’s ultimately about predicting everything” – theory could be a map to hunted quantum materials A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step towards predicting the behavior of the fundamental matter of which our world is built. It can be used to calculate systems of enormous quantities of quantum…
artificial intelligence 2024.04.03 Computer scientists show the way: AI models need not be SO power hungry The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising…
Green data 2024.03.26 Health data storage has a climate cost. In the future data may be stored in DNA A lot of energy is required to analyse and store large amounts of data. We may therefore have to take a different approach to data storage in the future. So says a professor Søren Brunak at the University of Copenhagen.
Green medicine 2024.03.26 Waste products could innovate pharmaceutical material design Research highlights the potential for utilizing molecules extracted from side stream products in food and oil industry in the context of pharmaceutical innovation, showcasing the power of interdisciplinary research in…
Quantum physics 2024.03.26 Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems…
Virtual Reality 2024.03.26 Virtual reality matches real reality for med-student examination Medical students can learn almost everything from books. Just not to recall their training in the chaos of a clinical situation. University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet usually test this skill in effective but…
animal production 2024.03.21 Researcher: Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year – but a ban is not the solution Annually, the global egg industry kills seven billion day-old male chicks because they don’t lay eggs and aren’t worth raising for meat. While several countries have banned the practice, neither bans nor other current…
Geology 2024.03.21 New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland The oldest Scandinavian bedrock was 'born' in Greenland according to a new geological study from the University of Copenhagen. The study helps us understand the origin of continents and why Earth is the only planet in…
AI 2024.03.13 Straightening teeth? AI can help A new tool being developed by the University of Copenhagen and 3Shape will help orthodontists correctly fit braces onto teeth. Using artificial intelligence and virtual patients, the tool predicts how teeth will move, s…
Cost-benefit analyses 2024.03.08 Economists: Ecosystems have higher monetary value than previously calculated Current economic practice systematically underestimates the value of nature, according to an international group of economists. Writing in the journal Science, they propose a new calculation formula.
Methane 2024.02.29 Young researcher makes surprising methane discovery in Yukon glaciers: "Much more widespread than we thought" Global melting is prying the lid off methane stocks, the extent of which we do not know. A young researcher from University of Copenhagen has discovered high concentrations of the powerful greenhouse gas in meltwater…
Foods of the future 2024.02.27 Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for "meat-like" proteins Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have not only succeeded in using blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for a new protein – they have even coaxed the microalgae to produce "meat fibre-like" protein strands…
Sustainability 2024.02.26 Robots, monitoring and healthy ecosystems could halve pesticide use without hurting productivity Smarter crop farming that combats weeds, insect pests and plant diseases by integrating modern technologies like AI-based monitoring, robotics, and next-generation biotechnology with healthy and resilient agricultural…
archaeology 2024.02.19 Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic peoples harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds that would…
CLIMATE CRISIS 2024.02.09 Easy solutions are rarely the answer to society's climate challenges It can sometimes seem like we're making problems unnecessarily complicated when we, as a society, need to solve the big sustainability challenges. But there are no simple solutions to solving 'wicked problems'.
Wetlands 2024.02.02 Tags Methane CO2 climate mitigation Geography Climate Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management wetlands Facult Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the greenhouse gas budgets…
Climate 2024.01.31 New study reports that Greenland is a methane sink rather than a source Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that the methane uptake in dry landscapes exceeds methane emissions from wet areas across the ice-free part of Greenland. The results of the new study contribut…