Nature, Numbers & Technology

Quick measurements and mathematics combat waste in Danish biotech companies

Food researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen combat waste in the Danish biotech industry with sensitive sensors and mathematics. They use so-called fast methods, which can measure…

New basic research center:

New astronomy center will reveal the cosmic dawn

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in close collaboration with DTU Space.

How we can add to the good lives of older people

Over the last decades, a considerable amount of research has been focussed on children and young people who are, of course, our future. But at present more research is going in the direction of promoting the good lives…

Collaboration on the good life in old age

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…

Nordic Food Lab publishes book on eating insects

How do you harvest ants from an anthill in the forest? How does trading occur with insects in Thailand? How does an ant taste? Why does it make sense to harvest drone bee larvae, beyond the reason that they taste good?…

New vaccine concept to eradicate dreaded bacterial disease in fish

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new type of vaccine in collaboration with a Danish biotech company to participate in eradicating the unpleasant bacterial disease furunculosis amongst both…

Fermentation creates sustainable growth in the West African food sector

In West Africa, spontaneously fermented foods are deeply embedded in the food culture and the population has a great deal of knowledge about how these foods should be produced. This knowledge has been handed down over…

Substances in solution and solid materials:

Researchers will find the structure of the smallest building blocks in nano-chemistry

Structure and function on nano-scale level. Two young researchers from University of Copenhagen have received funding - DKK 10 million each - to build up research groups to study the relationship between the structure o…

The Indonesian fermented food tempe in Scandinavian context

Head Chef at the Nordic Food Lab, University of Copenhagen, Roberto Flore on how the lab is exploring the traditional Indonesian food tempe in a Scandinavian context. Research Intern Anna Loraine Hartmann on the…