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Endurance sport can push the body to its limits

For sporting events such as the Olympic Games, top athletes can push their bodies a lot. In fact, in the case of endurance sport, the body undergoes medical conditions normally associated with health injury, says UCPH…

Is high performance sport even healthy: What does the research tell us?

The extreme athletic feats that we see in the Olympic Games are truly impressive. However, based on current research, it is difficult to find an unequivocal answer to exactly how healthy high performance sport is, says…

Natural History

Dinosaurs lived in a warmer and more dynamic climate than previously thought

Global climate during the late Cretaceous Period, an era when dinosaurs ruled the planet, was warmer and more varied than previously believed according to a new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and…

More complex than we thought: The body’s reaction to contact allergens

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have outlined an entire new subgroup of allergic reactions which explains early skin reactions in contact allergy.

Researchers: Let crop residues rot in the field – it’s a climate win

Plant material that lies to rot in soil isn’t just valuable as compost. In fact, agricultural crop residue plays a crucial role in sequestering carbon, which is vital for reducing global CO2 emissions. This, according t…

Tokyo 2020: from euphoria to deep worry

There was great joy and honour when the Japanese capital Tokyo was selected as host of the 2020 Olympics. Now they would show that Japan was back on the world stage again after the economic crisis in the 1990s.

Olympics in 60 seconds: From Greek myth to modern-day mega-event

The Olympic Games began in ancient Greece in honour of the gods. In addition to an abundance of sports, the Olympics of today are money, politics and propaganda.

The Weight of an Olympic Medal

It can have negative consequences for the individual athlete when we focus more on the performance than the person behind. Because what happens when the moment the athlete has based his or her identity on is over?

In principal, some Olympians can indulge in junk food for breakfast and still perform

OL-buffeten bugner hver dag af lækkerier, men hvorvidt atleterne kan spise løs eller nøje må udvælge deres kost, afhænger fuldstændigt af, hvilken sportsgren, de konkurrerer i. Læs med, når KU-forsker Lars Nybo giver di…

sustainable crops

Danish researchers find a way to make faba beans safe for all to eat

Consuming large amounts of faba beans can be dangerous for about 400 million people due to a compound called vicine, which accumulates in the beans. This limits their potential as a widespread, sustainable source of…

Protein mapping

Old dog poop provides insight into one of Alaska's indigenous peoples and their relationship to the dog

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in mapping the proteins in an old, frozen poop. The samples of dog poop are hundreds of years old and stem from sledge dogs at a settlement belonging to one of Alaska's…

Covid-19 clinical trials ignore gender differences

Although the coronavirus affects men and women differently, most clinical trials do not mention sex/gender, a new analysis of 4,420 studies concludes. Ultimately, it can influence the treatment negatively.

Danish invention to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly

An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined,…

Climate report: Home buyers ignore flood risk

Buyers neglect to investigate the risk of flooding until after purchasing new homes according to a new report from the University of Copenhagen. The report also reveals that home prices are only slightly affected by…

Come get involved in sustainability

The University of Copenhagen and Actory invite incoming exchange students at UCPH to get involved in sustainability initiatives while in Copenhagen. From recycling clothes and furniture to the possibility of…

Sustainability studies across disciplines and borders

Climate change is not only a global challenge, but also a challenge that must be tackled with solutions from all the different fields within higher education. An international student experience can be both an inspiring…

Sustainability; Make it easy to walk the walk

The University of Copenhagen has been serving society with knowledge and innovative solutions since 1479. The issues have changed over time, but the tireless effort to address them has not. Climate change and…

Education in Change

Students develop solutions to companies’ tricky challenges

TASTE AND SMELL

The sense of smell in older adults declines when it comes to meat, but not vanilla

Contrary to what science once suggested, older people with a declining sense of smell do not have comprehensively dampened olfactory ability for odors in general – it simply depends upon the type of odor. Researchers at…

Education in Change

First time in the lab: Everything suddenly made sense

The University of Copenhagen has its first Chief Innovation Officer

Marius Sylvestersen is the University of Copenhagen’s first head of a newly established shared innovation centre.

Ticket inspection

Five types of passengers: How we respond to fines on the bus

As passengers we respond very differently when caught without a valid ticket on the bus. Using video analysis, sociologists have identified five typical patterns of reaction.

Researcher: Drop the notion that we can protect our own data

Users should not ultimately be the ones responsible for protecting their data, as the long, cryptic privacy settings on many apps suggest. In reality, we have almost no power over our data and who uses it for what,…

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

QUANTUM RESEARCH

New invention keeps qubits of light stable at room temperature

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have developed a new technique that keeps quantum bits of light stable at room temperature instead of only working at -270 degrees. Their discovery saves power and money and is …

New Associate Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences

On 1 September Professor Sara Hagemann takes up office as the new Associate Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Education in Change

Tommy Ahlers: A big b** was a law student’s best asset

Former minister for Higher Education and Science, Tommy Ahlers, graduated from UCPH with a law degree 20 years ago. He felt the prejudice himself back then that law was an out-of-step education with memorising and the…

artificial intelligence

Algorithm reveals the mysterious foraging habits of narwhals

An algorithm can predict when narwhals hunt – a task once nearly impossible to gain insight into. Mathematicians and computer scientists at the University of Copenhagen, together with marine biologists in Greenland, hav…

Bacteria used to clean diesel-polluted soil in Greenland

Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria according to an extensive five-year experiment in Mestersvig, East Greenland, to which the…

Ancient air bubbles speak to a much warmer Antarctica during the ice-age than once believed

Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested. This is according to new research in which the…

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