Nature, Numbers & Technology

Scientists have discovered rapidly rising seasonal sea temperatures are the likely trigger for coral reproduction allowing them to predict when mass spawning will occur.

Danish research is behind a new epoch-making discovery, which may prove decisive to future brain research. The level of salts in the brain plays a critical role in whether we are asleep or awake. This discovery may be o…

A Danish research team from the University of Copenhagen has designed a simple technique that makes it possible to quickly and easily develop a new type of vaccines. The simple and effective technique will pave the way…

New research results from the Niels Bohr Institute show that light sources can be made much faster by using a principle that was predicted theoretically in 1954. Superfast light sources can be used, for example, in lase…

The Faculty of Social Sciences is opening a new research centre for social big data: Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS).

The diet in many developing countries is lacking zinc, but researchers have just solved the riddle of how to get more zinc into crop seeds. The discovery has been published in Nature Plants, and the research was led by…

University of Copenhagen Department of Chemistry is establishing a new chemistry undergraduate programme in “Oil and Gas Chemistry”. It can be chosen after the first of three undergraduate years at UCPH...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have, for the first time, created a 3D image of food on the nanometer scale. The method the scientists used is called…

All cells protect themselves from the environment using very thin but ultra-strong membranes. In order to let useful molecules (nutrients etc.) go through the membrane, cells use ‘gatekeeper molecules’ called…

Easter can fall early and late, in fact, the timing can fluctuate by an entire month from late March to late April. Using a new astronomical method of calculation, the date of Easter would be better defined as the first…

A novel technology to clean air is now presented in the Chinese capital Beijing...

A novel invention using light to remove air pollution has proven to be more versatile than any competing systems. It eliminates fumes as chemically diverse as odorous sulfur compounds and health hazardous hydrocarbons…

Researchers from the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at University of Copenhagen have for the first time demonstrated that the production of a plant hormone by a beneficial microbe is protecting a plant…

When we talk about climate change today, we have to recognise the natural variations to be able to distinguish them from the human-induced changes. Researchers from the NBI have analysed the natural climate variations…

Danish air quality company “Infuser” is now inaugurating what promises to be Europe’s, and possibly the world's, most advanced laboratories for the analysis of air quality...

What if there is good reason to believe the greatest risks of climate change lie beyond 2050? This question is asked in a comment in the medical journal The Lancet by Professor Alistair Woodward, Head of Epidemiology an…

The most common treatments for cancer are radiation and chemotherapy. However they have side effects and also damage healthy tissues. Researchers at NBI are therefore working to develop a gentler treatment that ‘tricks’…

A group of researchers, headed by chemists based at the University of Copenhagen, plan to use green energy to help make chemical production greener, safer and more decentralised.

Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have taken a leap ahead in understanding how one family of enzymes ease the transformation of cellulose. This can be incredibly important for, among other things, the development…

Non-coding RNA could play an important role in plants’ ability to cope with temperature changes and be the key to developing for example cold resistant crops. Post doc Peter Kindgren from Copenhagen Plant Science Centre…

Peter Lodahl, professor of quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has received the prestigious Danish elite researcher award, the EliteForsk Award 2016. Peter Lodahl works with…

Entirely new approach for designing insulin-based pharmaceuticals could open the door for more personalized medications against Type 1 Diabetes.

Reconstructing the emergence and evolution of life on our planet is tightly linked to the questions as to when and to what extent Earth’s atmosphere became oxygenated.

In a large alliance with Danish universities, public and private organisations, the Computer Science Department at University of Copenhagen has engaged in a new data research centre, DABAI, which will provide research…

Efforts to “rewild” the landscape have become increasingly popular, but a new paper led by the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate states that the scientific evidence supporting the potential benefits of this…