Nature, Numbers & Technology

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…

DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry of Europeans.

1 December 2014 Per Ambus will commence as professor in arctic isotope geochemistry at Center for Permafrost.

The invention of super resolution microscopy won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry - a revolutionary technique that literally has made the impossible possible. Thanks to a group of researchers at the Center for…

This could reduce the number of our last remaining large free-flowing rivers by about 20 percent and pose a serious threat to freshwater biodiversity.

Professor in Geophysics Hans Thybo, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at University of Copenhagen has been elected as Fellow of Geological Society of America.

Multiple pathways exist to a low greenhouse gas future, all involving increased efficiency and a dramatic shift in energy supply away from fossil fuels.

Ten of the world's top universities now release the Green Guide for Universities at the international conference Making Universities Sustainable Conference that takes place in Copenhagen this week. The guide makes it…

The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising – but how much? Now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and their colleagues have calculated the risk for a worst-case scenario.…

Companies need to pay close attention if they want to be frontrunners in technological development: University of Copenhagen brings together experts from more than 50 countries to discuss solutions to global challenges…

Despite some progress, more needs to be done to reach the internationally agreed set of biodiversity targets by 2020. New Science study out today.

The top researcher Corinna Cortes, born in Denmark, spends most of her days on Google’s floor of executive suites in New York City. At Google she is responsible for Google Research. But on 27 September she will return t…

New research from the Copenhagen Centre for Social Evolution and Yale University offers compelling support for the general evolutionary theory that birth weight and -length can partially predict the likelihood of being…

University College Capital and Metropolitan University College are joining the University of Copenhagen in a collaboration intended to promote practice-oriented research and improve study programmes.

Staying clear of diseases requires the proteins in our cells to cooperate with one another. But, it has been a well-guarded secret how tens of thousands of different proteins find the correct dancing partners as they…

Future quantum circuits are photonic circuits, i.e. circuits based on light (photons) instead of electrons. Now scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in creating a steady stream of photons emitted one at…