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2025.02.11

Twenty years on, biodiversity struggles to take root in restored wetlands

While the restoration of natural areas is high on political agendas, a comprehensive new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that – after more than two decades – biodiversity growth has stalled in restored…

antibiotic resistance

2025.02.05

Researchers raise the alarm: Antibiotic resistance can spread unpredictably into the environment

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have learned that antibiotic resistant DNA can survive on the surface of minerals such as sand or clay, and this may increase the spread of antibiotic resistance from animal…

SEXUAL HEALTH

2025.02.03

Danes find it hard to talk about sex: How to boost the conversation through science

A quarter of the Danish population find it difficult to talk about sex. Our inability to talk about it is bad for our sexual health and enjoyment of life in general – but all’s not lost, says a researcher.

Research

2025.01.29

AI creates new winners and losers in the labour market

Demand for professional skills has changed significantly since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to a new international study.

Sonning Prize

2025.01.27

Gastronomic artist is awarded the Sonning Prize 2025

French Hervé This, who invented molecular gastronomy, has fundamentally changed European food culture and put gastro experiences at the top of many people's bucket lists.

Award

2025.01.23

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

As a student, Professor Eske Willerslev had an idea: He wanted to extract DNA directly from the soil. This has led to major scientific breakthroughs and an entire new research field, eDNA, for which he now receives one…

Cancer

2025.01.21

New effective treatment for deadly cancer may be on its way

A new advanced form of treatment for one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, pancreatic cancer, may be on its way, research from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet shows. It has the potential to increase…

health

2025.01.20

Many Greenlanders Face 10 Times Higher Risk of Diabetes – Exercise May Be Their Only Solution

A significant portion of the Greenlandic Inuit population carries a genetic variant that increases their risk of type 2 diabetes tenfold. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that the key t…

RNA damage

2025.01.17

Textbooks need to be rewritten: RNA, not DNA, is the main cause of acute sunburn

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage. However, a new study by the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, reveals that RNA, another vital cellular molecule…

antibiotic resistance

2025.01.16

Denmark's largest quantum computer is here

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Twenty years on, biodiversity struggles to take root in restored wetlands

Researchers raise the alarm: Antibiotic resistance can spread unpredictably into the environment

Danes find it hard to talk about sex: How to boost the conversation through science

AI creates new winners and losers in the labour market

Gastronomic artist is awarded the Sonning Prize 2025

Eske Willerslev found the past in two grams of soil. His finding gives us a window into the future

New effective treatment for deadly cancer may be on its way

Many Greenlanders Face 10 Times Higher Risk of Diabetes – Exercise May Be Their Only Solution

Textbooks need to be rewritten: RNA, not DNA, is the main cause of acute sunburn

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