Society, Politics & Law

In recent years, the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen has had an increased research focus on how food affects human health. This focus cuts across department disciplines, so FOOD has…

Already at the age of 50, we begin to lose muscle mass (called sarcopenia), which increases our risk for diseases, resulting in a loss of quality of life and costing society dearly. But if we easily can screen all older…

Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be…

The European Commission has appointed Professor Niels Thygesen of the University of Copenhagen to chair the European Fiscal Board, a brand new body set up to advise the Commission on fiscal matters.

Cut down on meat, leave out all dairy products and eat lost of leguminous fruit. Advice is plentiful when it comes to a sclerosis friendly diet, but in actual fact, not much is known about the subject. However, this is…

New research into digital treatment has led to the development of an app for treating people suffering from depression or bipolar disorder, preventing readmission to hospital. The Copenhagen Center for Health Technology…

Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen point out that “non-targeted” methods of analysis can reveal far more food fraud than we are currently detecting. The analytical…

The Department of Food Science (FOOD) at University of Copenhagen has received 6.3 million Danish kroner (app 1 million USD) from the Danish Council for Independent Research to study whether you can prevent obesity by…

UCPH professors in mathematics and in International Development Law received the Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize 2016.

Human activity has already transformed the surface of the Earth. A just published Science paper shows that it also seems to reduce genetic diversity within animals - putting them at higher risk of extinction. The…

Danish researchers are the first in the world to have finally established a link between the GALNT2 gene and the level of HDL cholesterol – otherwise known as ‘good cholesterol’. This paves the way for continued researc…

A small gadget that can protect us against food poisoning and reduce food waste. Organic dyes which bond properly to the fabrics during manufacture, rather than being flushed out with the waste water and contaminating…

Roberto Flore, head chef of Nordic Food Lab at University of Copenhagen, won the Sardinian award “Manos in Pasta” for sending a message about true Sardinian gastronomic heritage to the rest of the world.

Starting on 1 September 2016 professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen will be taking over from Lars Bo Kaspersen and assume the position as Head of the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Today, Arla Foods and University of Copenhagen celebrate the renewal of a strategic framework agreement signed in 2011. The agreement consolidates a very strong relation and research collaboration within dairy process…

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

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…

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…

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.

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.