Nature, Numbers & Technology

Professor

2016.05.11

New Professor Thomas Günther-Pomorski breaks it all apart...

…just to build it up again. According to the recently appointed Professor, that is the key approach to understanding the complex membrane dynamics he and his team are dealing with. In doing so, there is scarcely anythin…

Marine life

2016.05.10

Coral mass spawning triggered by seasonal rises in ocean temperature

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

Sleep Research

2016.04.29

Salts in the brain control our sleep-wake cycle

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…

Vaccine

2016.04.26

Danish researchers behind vaccine breakthrough

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…

Quantum technology:

2016.04.26

Superfast light source made from artificial atom

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…

SOCIAL MEDIA

2016.04.14

The Faculty of Social Sciences is investing heavily in social big data

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

zinc

2016.04.11

Researchers find key to zinc rich plants to combat malnutrition

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…

Chemistry education

2016.03.30

New bachelor programme in chemistry opens doors to international jobs

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...

GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH

2016.03.30

For the first time scientists can observe the nano structure of food in 3D

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…

Published in SCIENCE:

2016.03.25

Gatekeepers of cell membranes studied one at a time with revolutionary nanotechnology

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

2016.03.18

Easter can be calculated with greater accuracy using new ‘old’ astronomical method

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…

Chemistry business

2016.03.17

University of Copenhagen spin-out presents air cleaner in Beijing

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

chemistry research

2016.03.17

Cleaning air with light proven to be uniquely versatile

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…

plant protection

2016.03.17

Breakthrough: Microbes protect plants with plant hormones

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…

Climate

2016.03.16

Climate variations analysed 5 million years back in time

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…

Chemistry Business

2016.03.10

University of Copenhagen spinout opens advanced air laboratory

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...

climate change

2016.03.03

Professors in The Lancet: We need an analysis of the consequences of climate change beyond 2050

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…

Cell treatment

2016.03.02

Cancer treatment on a cellular level

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’…

chemistry research

2016.03.01

Greener chemistry through renewable energy

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.

chemistry research

2016.03.01

Chemical snapshot unveils path to greener biofuel

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…

Marie Curie

2016.03.01

Mapping the unknown: what is the function of non-coding RNA in plants?

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…

On the edge of new territories

2016.02.25

Physicist Peter Lodahl receives prestigious EliteForsk Award

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…

chemistry research

2016.02.18

Chemistry trick paves way for safer diabetes medication

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

Life on Earth

2016.02.15

Oxygen was present in the atmosphere much earlier than previously assumed

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.

Big Data, DABAI

2016.02.11

New research centre DABAI will create innovation through Big Data

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…