Society, Politics & Law

Food science

2020.03.05

The composition of urine is related to economic status

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that the diets of the wealthy and people in risk of poverty are correlated with urinary fingerprints of their respective metabolisms. Urine samples from more than…

FACE BLINDNESS

2020.02.19

Scientists pinpoint brain coordinates for face blindness

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

Dementia

2020.02.11

Taller young men may have lower dementia risk

Being taller in young adulthood is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia in men, even when education, intelligence and family genetics are taken into account.

air pollution

2020.01.20

New discovery about harmful particles: "We have found a fundamental shortcoming in air pollution models"

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a surprising phenomenon in a process by which certain gas molecules produce harmful particles. The impact of this phenomenon is likely to increase in urban…

ERC grant

2019.12.10

New research project will tell the entangled history of the Lesser Antilles

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…

RESEARCH FUNDING

2019.12.10

Mapping the digital impact of interest groups on politicians and the public

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…

Gastronomic research

2019.11.12

Knowledge of the origin of the food makes it taste better

Food we are familiar with tastes the best, but if we know where the food comes from and how it is made, it actually gets better, even if we don’t think the taste is spot on. New research from the Future Consumer Lab at…

activism

2019.10.04

Chinese activists protest the use of traditional treatments - they want medical science

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…

Biodiversity

2019.09.13

Why is Earth so biologically diverse? Mountains hold the answer

Life on Earth is amazingly diverse, and exhibits striking geographical global patterns in biodiversity. A pair of companion papers published September 13th in Science reveal that mountain regions—especially those in the…

Children

2019.09.13

Children of Refugees with PTSD are at Higher Risk of Developing Psychiatric Disorders

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…

Climate

2019.09.06

Results of an eight-year climate experiment: Danish heath vegetation increases CO2 uptake as atmospheric concentration rises

In a unique experiment, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, DTU and Aarhus University have simulated future climate change on a heath in Jægerspris, Denmark. The heath was exposed to increased CO2, higher…

Early aging

2019.09.05

Repeated Periods of Poverty Accelerate the Ageing Process

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…

Grant

2019.09.03

Researchers to map the social mobility of siblings

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…

Grant

2019.09.02

Major grant strengthens leading Danish position in protein research

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…

Innovation

2019.08.29

UCPH-spinout receives support for development of cancer-drug

The biotech company ADCendo ApS, a spinout-company from the Biotech Research and Innovation Centre within University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet, has been accepted into the start up-programme Creation House at the…

CONSUSSION

2019.07.09

A concussion can cost your job - especially for the young and well educated

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.

CLIMATE

2019.06.25

Climate change is already affecting food production worldwide

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…

agriculture

2019.06.14

UCPH researchers on hunt for sustainable super crop recipe

Smarter food production is becoming an imperative as the world's population swells and climate changes. With the backing of a 203 million kroner grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers at the University of…

Scholars at risk

2019.05.09

Rector supports imprisoned researcher and human rights activist

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.

GMO

2019.04.24

Risk and unnaturalness cannot justify EU’s strict policy on GMO

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…