Nature, Numbers & Technology

Researchers at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, have discovered an unknown reaction for cancer battling Hadron therapy...

Leaders and diplomats tweet diligently - also from closed negotiations. Rebecca Adler-Nissen will research what this means to the diplomacy and its ability to create peaceful solutions on iternational tensions.

In the basement under the Niels Bohr Institute building on Juliane Maries Vej in Copenhagen they have found astronomical observations that go more than 120 years back in time. The observations were recorded on thin…

Intestinal bacteria change their composition and function when diabetic patients are treated with the drug metformin.

By 2050, the global population is expected to increase to 9.6 billion people. The world will need more nutritious, affordable, and environmentally sustainable food - exactly what the EU funded project PROTEIN2FOOD has…

The world’s most powerful accelerator, the 27 km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at CERN in Geneva established collisions between lead nuclei, this morning, at the highest energies ever.

The cuckoo is not only capable of finding its way from unknown locations; it does this through highly individual decision making, shows new research from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

Department of Food Science at University of Copenhagen is part of the consortium "FoodNexus" (formerly Foodbest), which is currently developing an application for the status of a European innovation alliance – a…

New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North Atlantic propagated globally. The study, led by researchers from The Niels Bohr Institute, shows how interaction between heat transport in the ocean and…

The NASA satellite, Swift, has now detected its 1000th gamma-ray burst. Since the launch of the satellite in 2004, it has revolutionised research into gamma-ray bursts.

Collaborations on climate change research are divided into separate regions of the world with little knowledge exchange between them. The most vulnerable countries of the world are largely disconnected from the…

New research shows that the ice sheet on Greenland contains the nutrient phosphorus, which was carried by the atmosphere across the country, where it fell with precipitation. This new knowledge is important for...

Plant science has a necessary but not sufficient role to play in meeting the global food security challenge, conclude the Dr. John S. I. Ingram from University of Oxford and Professor Dr. John R. Porter from University…

Study of insects on the roof of Zoological Museum has revealed local insect community turnover due to climate change.

However, it was at least another thousand years until the bacterium that causes the disease, Yersinia pestis, acquired key changes in virulence genes, allowing it to spread via fleas and evade the host immune system. “W…

New details on how birds respond to climate change have been revealed by volunteer bird watchers all over Europe.

The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences invites businesses to benefit from the department’s expertise and facilities, and anticipates that shared workdays will be a fertile ground for innovation and…

The University of Copenhagen has joined the ranks of the top 50 research institutions that publish the highest number of articles in two of the world’s most acclaimed and influential scientific journals.

Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of CO2 in the ocean than previously thought.

A new version of vegetationmap4africa makes it easier to select species for agroforestry and land restoration via web, smart phone and Google Earth…

Linguists from the University of Copenhagen can now produce language technology – based on Biblical verse and Wikipedia articles – for up to 100 small and big languages at the same time.

Most of the world’s biodiversity is below ground, but little is known about how it affects ecosystems or how it will be affected by climate change. A new paper by CMEC demonstrates the importance of soil biodiversity fo…

The future survival of the wild Sumatran rhinos now depends entirely on the less than 100 individuals estimated to live in Indonesia and the nine rhinos in captivity.

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered a new type of photonic channels, where back and forth are not equal distances! Such a system has been a missing component for building quantum photonic circuits…

Believe it or not: X-ray works a lot better on rocks than on paper. This has been a problem for restorers trying to save historical books and letters from the ravages of time and fungi. They frankly did not know what…