The man in the photo has willingly been drinking liquid pesticides in a desperate suicide attempt after realising that his harvest has failed. He is not alone: around 35 percent of all suicides in many Asian countries
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary relationship between a two million year old giant primate and the living orangutan. It is the first time genetic material
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Food we are familiar with tastes the best, but if we know where the food comes from and how it is made, it actually gets better, even if we don’t think the taste is spot on. New research from the Future Consumer Lab at
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During the last 100 years hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive, new research from the University of Copenhagen shows. The study has surveyed the most destructive hurricanes on the south- and east
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just signed a contract for DKK 7.75 million for the development of intelligent exercise clothing that will monitor the fitness level of astronauts in space. The physiological part of
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown how the brain's circadian rhythm in rats is, among other things, controlled by the stress hormone corticosterone - in humans called cortisol. This has been shown
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Besides the prompting major economic and social changes, the collapse of the Soviet Union also precipitated an enormous savings of greenhouse gas emissions. Reduced meat consumption and abandoned farmland resulted in
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A fluorescent blend of silver and DNA could help us better understand diseases. University of Copenhagen researchers have crystallized a compound with properties that could make it an effective tool for tissue and cell
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