News archive 2017

News archive 2017

Microsoft establishes Quantum Centre at the University of Copenhagen

2017.09.06

The University of Copenhagen plays a central role in an ambitious Microsoft multi-million dollar…
Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age

2017.09.05

Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the…
Sugar Sweet Theatre Unites Art and Research

2017.09.05

What happens when art studies research? For the exhibition Sugar Theater artists have created four…
More languages for more students

2017.09.01

The University of Copenhagen’s shared university-wide vision is to improve students’ language skill…
From Frue Plads to Frederiksberg

2017.08.31

The Matriculation Ceremony at the University of Copenhagen is a tradition that dates back more than…
Video: Paul Auster in conversation at the University of Copenhagen

2017.08.29

25 August American author Paul Auster visited University of Copenhagen for a conversation with…
From ”cook and look” to mechanistic food science

2017.08.24

Professor of Food Chemistry Leif Skibsted from the Department of Food Science at the University of…
Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago

2017.08.23

Excavations of architecture and associated deposits left by hunter-gatherers in the Black Desert in…
New Head of Department at the Niels Bohr Institute

2017.08.22

Jan W. Thomsen’s appointment as Head of Department at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr…
Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods

2017.08.13

The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each…
Chinese TV visited FOOD

2017.08.11

Chinese CCTV visited Nordic Food Lab at the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of…
Spying on malaria parasites at -196 Celsius

2017.08.08

A team of scientists led by postdoc Sergey Kapishnikov from the Niels Bohr Institute has managed to…
New Research Uncovers a Cause of Schizophrenia

2017.07.19

When the brain is formed in the embryonic stage, this happens partly according to a recipe from a…
New professor in how food microbes affect our health

2017.07.17

Microbiologist Dennis Sandris Nielsen from the Department of Food Science at the University of…
The Breivik terrorist attacks in Norway led to mental illness in Denmark

2017.07.17

The number of Danes diagnosed with trauma- and stressor-related disorders (including post-traumatic…
The earliest stages of life might be simpler than we thought

2017.07.13

4.5 days after fertilization the early mammalian embryo consists of approximately 100 cells. At…
Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem

2017.07.13

One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by…
Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked

2017.07.07

Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain…
New Company at the University of Copenhagen Banks on Development of Extremely Effective Vaccines

2017.06.28

Vaccine researchers from the University of Copenhagen have just founded a company by the name of…
Has human lifespan hit the ceiling?

2017.06.28

The forecast of human longevity attracts great societal attention. More and more people are living…

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