Nature, Numbers & Technology

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…

Through generous donations from VILLUM FONDEN, The Novo Nordisk Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation and the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansens Foundation, the University of Copenhagen is now able to build the new Natural…

The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and almost everything else 66 million years ago.

The University of Copenhagen has set out ambitious new targets for sustainability designed to make UCPH one of the world’s most sustainable universities. With “Green Campus 2020: A Strategy for Resource Efficiency and…

Ever since agriculture evolved ca 10.000 years ago, plants have been artificially selectedto become the fast growing and highly productive varieties we know today. However, humans were not the first to see merit in…

If there is a blood clot preventing blood from flowing across the endothelial cells, they begin to divide actively. New research from NBI demonstrates that cell division is very ordered and create a dynamic movement…

A new method makes it possible to clone Nordmann firs – the Danes’ Christmas tree of choice. Robust, beautiful trees can now be grown without pesticides or any other form of chemical treatment used to help regulate tree…

The ESO Council has now decided to start building the new large European telescope E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) on 1 January 2015. This begins the first phase of construction of the world’s largest…

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute demonstrates that…

How is it that vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least lead to severe food-poisoning, and more likely kill most other animals?

University of Copenhagen has presented its Innovation Award 2014 to Matthew Johnson who is a professor of environmental chemistry at Department of Chemistry, UCPH. Johnson has invented a natural, inexpensive and…