Society, Politics & Law

Danish and Norwegian researchers have moved one step closer to understanding where face blindness stems from in the brain.

In history books, the islands of the eastern Caribbean, the Lesser Antilles, are described as small isolated societies controlled by European colonial powers. But the many small islands were in fact deeply dependent on…

Professor of Political Science Anne Rasmussen is set to receive a DKK 15 million ERC Consolidator Grant to study how interest groups’ use of digital forms of communication (e.g. tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook posts an…

In China, traditional Chinese medicine has the same status in the health system as modern medical science. This has led thousands of science activists to protest that the state neglects its duty to treat its citizens…

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied what it means for children to have parents who are refugees and have PTSD. The study shows that these children have a significantly higher risk of contact with…

People who have found themselves below the relative poverty threshold four or more times in their adult life age significantly earlier than others. This is shown in new research from the Department of Health and Medical…

The European Research Council has awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant worth DKK 11 million, to sociologist Kristian Karlson for an ambitious research project designed to identify areas in which there is the…

Since its inauguration in 2009, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research has placed Danish biomedical research firmly onto the world map by creating a highly successful international beacon of leading…

According to a large new study a seemingly harmless concussion can cause the loss of a job - especially for patients who are in their thirties and for those with a higher education.

Research from the University of Copenhagen shows that crops around the world are already affected by climate change. This means a decrease in yield in almost half of the countries where food production is already…

The Rector of the University of Copenhagen supports the Saudi Arabian historian and human rights activist Dr. Hatoon al-Fassi in a letter to the King of Saudi Arabia.

The EU’s policy on GMO is extremely strict and prevents new GMO crops from being authorized. The policy is based on arguments about the risk and unnaturalness of GMO plants – but these arguments cannot justify the…

The teacher is just as important in a virtual learning environment as in a normal classroom, but a new study shows that boys and girls differ greatly in terms of how they learn best.

Your lifestyle is formed to a great extent by the health and disease among your relatives, and this is important knowledge in the economic research, states the English-speaking business-news media Quartz.

New research shows that wage transparancy reduces gender pay gap by 7%.

New research results challenge previous findings of huge differences in life expectancy between the rich and those at the bottom of the income scale.

As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, traits as egoism, machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadisme share a common ‘dark core’. So, if you have one of these tendencies, you…

Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other and the public. This…

Edyta Roszko, Ph.D., has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for an innovative anthropological research project exploring transoceanic networks connecting Chinese, Vietnamese, African and…

Keeping global warming to within 1.5-2°C may be more difficult than previously assessed. An international team of scientists, with the participation of Center from Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of…