Nature, Numbers & Technology

By analysing a simple blood sample, scientists from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in predicting if a woman will get breast cancer within two to five years. The method – a metabolic blood profile – is still…

Researchers have long known that there was water in the form of ice on Mars. Now, new research from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is liquid water close to the surface of Mars.

Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the…

There are electrical signals in the nervous system, the brain and throughout the human body and there are tiny magnetic fields associated with these signals that could be important for medical science.

Plants are particularly sensitive to climatic changes in early life stages and even small climatic changes can cause vegetation shifts.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in our galaxy, the Milky Way. By analysing these planetary systems, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have…

The Center for Quantum Devices, QDev at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and QuTech at Delft University of Technology in Holland have therefore entered into an international partnership in the…

How did the introduction of balance weights in Bronze Age Europe and Asia shape the way prehistoric cultures conducted trade? This fundamental question will inform a new groundbreaking ERC-funded research project based…

As with magnets and alternating current, positively charged molecules never aim for one another. Or so chemists used to believe...

The 27 km long subterranean particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is ready to start up again. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. After a break of two…

Tooth decay is a serious health problem and it is often necessary to repair cavities. Today they often use a composite filling material made of acrylate compounds, as it resembles the colour of the teeth and is…

Faculty of Science Dean John Renner Hansen recently signed an agreement with Qatar University’s College of Arts and Sciences. It is an agreement that Hansen hopes will make it easier to develop the current collaborative…

A chemist from the University of Copenhagen has invented a compound which measures oxygen in cells and other biological material with high precision. The novel method will make it possible to measure oxygen using the…

An analysis of DNA extracted from the tooth roots of three 17th century slaves reveals that they hailed from Bantu-speaking groups in northern Cameroon and non-Bantu speakers living in present-day Nigeria and Ghana.

In an atomic clock, electrons jumping from one orbit to another decides the clock’s frequency. To get the electrons to jump, researchers shine light on the atoms using stabilised laser light. However, the laser light ha…

Astronomers have for the first time observed a supernova multiply-imaged due to gravitational lensing. The light from the supernova is seen in four different images due to a cosmic phenomenon that causes light to be…

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded Professor Vincent F. Hendricks 1,92 million euros to establish the Centre for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) which is to be located at The Faculty of Humanities, University of…

Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But the earliest galaxies had no dust, only gas. Now an international team of astronomers, led by researchers from…

Biophysics professor Lene Oddershede of the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute at the Faculty of Science will receive an EliteForsk Award - Denmark's largest public research award - on Thursday, February 26…

A team of scientists lead by Danish geologist Nicolaj Krog Larsen have managed to quantify how the Greenland Ice Sheet reacted to a warm period 8,000-5,000 years ago.

A new study has found that while governments are making progress in expanding Protected Area networks, these are failing to provide adequate coverage for nature.

Three of the four most fatal cancers are caused by a protein known as Ras. Now a group from the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen discovered an effect that may lead to completely novel approaches to…

Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, says a team of 18 researchers including professor Katherine Richardson from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate. The…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has decided to award an additional grant of DKK 180 million (€24.2 million) to The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen.

A new type of ‘nanowire’ crystals that fuses semiconducting and metallic materials on the atomic scale could lay the foundation for future semiconducting electronics. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are…