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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…

Researchers have recreated the universe’s primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle accelerator, the LHC at CERN.

Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen and Faculty of SCIENCE are inviting researchers from all walks of science to join the competition “Art in Science”.

The mapping of food specialisation in hummingbird communities across the Americas, has led to a rare documentation of a large scale ecological pattern.

The koala could soon be even more endangered than at present, if it turns out that climate change alters the nutritional value of the only food it can eat – Eucalypt leaves. Assistant Professor Elizabeth Neilson from th…

Professor Dimitrios Stamou is awarded the Torkil Holm prize for work on borders between chemistry and biology.

Two American researchers believe that they have found evidence that there is still a giant planet in our own solar system that we have never seen. It has long been known that the small dwarf planet Sedna moved in a…

Infection with the nematode parasite Mansonella perstans is one of the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases. A team of researchers have mapped areas of high risk of M. perstans infection in Uganda and…

Peter Naur, a great Danish scientist and the first Danish professor in Computer Science at University of Copenhagen 1969-1998 died 3 January 2016 after a short period of illness.

New results from the Mars rover Curosity show that some rocks in Gale Crater have a high content of the element silicon. Since the accumulation of silica typically require a combination of both heat and water, this plac…

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

New study by geologist Christoph Korte from IGN, provides documentation to explain a previously not understood major change in temperature during the Jurassic.

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…