Culture, Language & History

activism

2019.10.04

Chinese activists protest the use of traditional treatments - they want medical science

In China, traditional Chinese medicine has the same status in the health system as modern medical science. This has led thousands of science activists to protest that the state neglects its duty to treat its citizens…

The walrus

2019.09.13

Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement

An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands has for the first time used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic…

Exhibition

2019.09.04

Danish museum wins international award

The Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark, has won the prestigious UMAC Award for the museum’s experimental exhibition Mind the Gut which is a of blend science, art and history.

machine learning

2019.08.27

Women are beautiful, men rational

Men are typically described by words that refer to behavior, while adjectives ascribed to women tend to be associated with physical appearance. This, according to a group of computer scientists from the University of…

global research

2019.06.21

University of Copenhagen’s Amanda Hammar elected President of AEGIS

Head of the Centre of African Studies at University of Copenhagen, Amanda Hammar, looks forward to extending global research collaboration in African Studies as new president of the European African Studies Association.

DNA-SCIENCE

2019.05.10

Uncovering a 5000-year-old family tragedy

An international team, lead by researchers from the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, has shed light on a mysterious 5000-year-old mass grave in Poland. Despite being killed brutally, the victims were buried…

islamic studies

2019.02.06

Forgotten Islamic literary tradition uncovered in the Horn of Africa

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have spent the last five years identifying and analysing more than 2,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Horn of Africa in order to map and preserve the rich, but largely…

archaeology

2019.01.15

11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt

11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also have used them for hunting, a new study from the University of Copenhagen shows.

science communication

2018.09.24

Doubts and dialogue may alter public perceptions of science

Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other and the public. This…

archaeology

2018.07.16

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date,…

Indo-European languages

2018.05.09

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer groups in Kazakhstan who left little direct trace in the ancestry of modern populations.

Fertility

2018.04.13

China needs babies

Anthropological study shows a Chinese fertility industry on the rise.

wildlife trade

2017.11.22

EU trade ban brings down global trade in wild birds by 90 %

Trade of wild birds has dropped about 90% globally since the EU banned bird imports in 2005. A study published today in the recognized scientific journal Science Advances demonstrates how the EU’s ban decreased the…

egyptology

2017.11.10

Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper

Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least until the fourth and fifth centuries AD. But in a new University of Copenhagen study, analyses of 2,000-year-old papyri…

archeolinguistics

2017.09.29

Scandinavia’s earliest farmers exchanged terminology with Indo-Europeans

5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to innovations such as the wagon and dairy production, they brought a new language – Indo-European – that replaced most loca…

Exhibition

2017.09.05

Sugar Sweet Theatre Unites Art and Research

What happens when art studies research? For the exhibition Sugar Theater artists have created four works of art on sugar in cooperation with researchers from the University of Copenhagen. The result is an unusual…

Collaboration on the good life in old age

2017.04.06

Judith Kyst: We are gathering and sharing our knowledge about the good life in old age

The Department of Food Science, together with two other departments at the University of Copenhagen, has joined forces with the Food Culture Association (Madkulturen) in a new research centre, Centre for Good Older…

underwater archaeology

2016.12.20

Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours

Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of Copenhagen are continuing to make important discoveries at Lechaion, the main harbour town of ancient Corinth. Among them structures that…

origins of agriculture

2016.12.05

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant species (pre-domestication cultivation), a precursor of agriculture, developed across southwest Asia around 11,600-10,700…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

New interdisciplinary research group at FOOD sees food science as a path to better health

In recent years, the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen has had an increased research focus on how food affects human health. This focus cuts across department disciplines, so FOOD has…

eyetracking

2016.10.24

Eyetracking data can improve language technology and help readers

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that recordings of gaze data – within a few seconds – can reveal whether a word causes a reader problems

Brain research

2016.10.18

New initiative will promote brain research in Denmark

Five of Denmark’s leading researchers on structural biology will collaborate on a project to gain insight into the brain’s functions and diseases. The initiative is called BRAINSTRUC and funded by Lundbeckfonden with up…

food fraud

2016.10.05

Food scientists: We can detect much more food fraud

Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen point out that “non-targeted” methods of analysis can reveal far more food fraud than we are currently detecting. The analytical…

Food Award

2016.05.27

Head chef of Nordic Food Lab wins Sardinian Prize

Roberto Flore, head chef of Nordic Food Lab at University of Copenhagen, won the Sardinian award “Manos in Pasta” for sending a message about true Sardinian gastronomic heritage to the rest of the world.

Visual science

2016.02.04

University kicks of battle of beautiful data

Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen and Faculty of SCIENCE are inviting researchers from all walks of science to join the competition “Art in Science”.