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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…

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…