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Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

There are far more trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel than most would expect. A combination of artificial intelligence and detailed satellite imagery allowed a team from the University of Copenhagen and…

Using Your Smartphone in Class Does Not Affect Your Learning

A large-scale research project among university students reveals that using your mobile phone in the classroom does not affect your learning negatively

New AI system will detect critical heart and lung diseases faster

A new system built on artificial intelligence will help radiologists analyse and prioritize chest X-rays in Denmark. The Innovation Fund Denmark has invested DKK 13.8 million in the project.

New project will crack the code to effective job matching with AI

A new research project will develop a machine learning solution to help companies find the right candidates, in collaboration with Denmark’s largest online recruitment portal, Jobindex.

New anthology on cashlessness: Who’s Cashing In?

A new anthology on the cashless society examines the strategies adopted by different people when traditional coins and banknotes rapidly disappear from their daily economic exchanges.

New study: Eyes linger less on 'fake news' headlines

A new study reports that people spend a little less time looking at 'fake news' headlines than to factual ones — knowledge that could make it easier to sort through fake news.

Researchers got busy: After nearly allowing the solution to a math conundrum from the 1980’s slip away

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) thought that they were five years away from solving a math riddle from the 1980’s. In reality, and without knowing, they had…

New blog looks at social consequences of a cashless economy

Researchers at the Department of Anthropology have launched a new blog, which discusses the transition to a cashless economy and the impact on the cash-reliant and indebted urban poor.

Fitness watches generate useful information, but increase patient anxiety

How does measuring our sleep, exercise and heart rates using various apps and fitness watches affect us? Self-quantifying may better the understanding of our individual health, but according to a new study, it also give…

Fitness watches generate useful information, but increase patient anxiety

How does measuring our sleep, exercise and heart rates using various apps and fitness watches affect us? Self-quantifying may better the understanding of our individual health, but according to a new study, it also give…

How do we increase diversity in Computer Science? Inspiring insights from our webinar with two experts

The Department of Computer Science was honored to have Dr. Carol Frieze and Dr. Jeria Quesenberry from Carnegie Mellon University share the story about how they managed to transform the gender diversity among the…

3D breakthrough: Now anyone can print an interactive model of the brain

A new method developed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen allows anyone to print interactive 3D objects. These might include models of the brain, to be used as educational tools.

Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivity

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have discovered a new way of developing topological superconductivity that may provide a useful route toward the use of Majorana zero modes as the foundation of qubits for…

SODAS-project to study social networks by using data from mobile payment transactions

SODAS researchers David Dreyer Lassen and Sune Lehmann have received DKK 19.7 million from VILLUM FONDEN for their project 'Nation-scale social networks'. Using population data and data about mobile payment transactions…

Size does matter: People with longer thumbs mistype on their phones more often

People with long thumbs have a tougher time hitting the right phone keys. According to a recent study from the University of Copenhagen, thumb length accounts for 12 percent of touch errors on smart phones.

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…

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…

In VR boys learn best when the teacher is a drone – girls learn better from virtual Marie

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.

Department of Computer Science main driver of two new STEM educations

From the summer of 2019, two new STEM bachelor educations will be available at the University of Copenhagen: 'Machine learning and data science' as well as 'Computer Science and Economy'. Hopefully, this will satisfy th…

Doubts and dialogue may alter public perceptions of science

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…

Biomarker in ovarian cancer patients linked to longer survival

High levels of the protein CT45 is associated with longer survival in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. The discovery published today in the scientific journal Cell is made by researchers from Germany, the USA and…

Sociologist Deborah Lupton to be awarded honorary doctor

Professor Deborah Lupton will be awarded with an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen. Lupton was nominated by the Department of Sociology.

Tower Talks with Soeren Brunak

The general public is showing increasing interest in the health and medical sciences. DR has named 2018 ‘science year’ and is e.g. currently airing the series Din geniale krop (Your Brilliant Body), to which several…

Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper

Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least until the fourth and fifth centuries AD. But in a new University of Copenhagen study, analyses of 2,000-year-old papyri…