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Ancient maize genomes reveal the early evolutionary history of commercially important flint and dent varieties

A study published in Cell uncovers the deep evolutionary roots of flint and dent maize, two foundational varieties central to modern maize breeding and cultivation. By analysing the genomes of 32 ancient maize samples…

Research seminar on Digital (mis)trust

On Friday the 29th of November five scholars (including DISTRACT researcher Kristoffer Albris) presented their work and thoughts on digital (mis)trust at the launch of a new special issue entitled Digital (Mis)trust:…

The sound of black holes in Osaka & Taipei

Vitor Cardoso was a plenary speaker at two major meetings with over 200 participants on gravity.

Warming temperatures may shrink wetland carbon sinks

An international team of scientists buried 19,000 bags of green tea and rooibos in 180 wetlands across 28 countries to measure the ability for wetlands to hold carbon in their soil, known as wetland carbon sequestration…

Coveted ERC Consolidator Grant goes to Associate Professor Bulat Ibragimov

The grant gives Bulat Ibragimov a solid push on the path to creating the first AI-guided toxicity atlas for safer and more effective abdominal radiation therapy.

Tetiana Kozynets

Atmospheric neutrino oscillations in IceCube-DeepCore within and beyond the unitary framework Supervisor: D. Jason Koskinen

New SODAS professional training courses

You can now sign up for two new SODAS professional training courses taking place in early 2025

Successful PhD and postdoc conference at IGN

The Global Wetland Center was well represented at IGN's PhD and postdoc conference 2024.

Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy

Congratulations to PhD student Pengpei Zhu who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, for his master’s thesis at Leiden.

Ministry of Digital Affairs grants a total of 30.7 Million to ambitious Danish language model project

The University of Copenhagen, together with the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University, and the Alexandra Institute, has received a total of 30.7 million kroner from the Ministry of Digitalisation to establis…

Ethicists’ commentary on dangerous dog assessments

Ethical question of the month, September 2024 You are a veterinarian hired in your region as an authority to assess dangerous dogs. The counties you work with have differing regulations regarding dogs that are deemed to…

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc fellowship for 2 exciting projects.

Look up in December

Read here (in Danish) about Orion and the red giant Betelgeuse in the stellar sky in December.

NQCP Photonic Pilot Line

The Photonic Pilot Line team here at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP), led by Associate Professor Stefano Paesani, is dedicated to advancing the development of quantum photonic components…

BARC visited ITU for the social programming event of the year

BARCies coding for drinks!

Fermented seaweed found to boost gut health and immunity in Atlantic Salmon

A new study has found that fermented sugar kelp can enhance gut health and immunity in Atlantic salmon, offering a sustainable solution to boost fish welfare in a growing aquaculture industry.

Morten Axel Pedersen comments on new study about AI poems

DISTRACT PI, Professor Morten Axel Pedersen was interviewed for the article: “Folk foretrækker digte skrevet af kunstig intelligens frem for Shakespeare” (EN: “People prefer poems by artificial intelligence to…

Price increases from January 1, 2025

General pricing The following general price increases have been decided for internal users in 2025: 8 pct. (including the regular 3 pct. P/L) price increase for rodent housing 13 pct. (including the regular 3 pct. P/L)…

Economist wants to shed light on corporate waste

How is a company's waste production and recycling affected by owners, managers, employees and lenders? Professor Morten Bennedsen will investigate this in a new project supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Lifetime health care costs for dogs based on data from seven veterinary clinics in Denmark

Nielsen, S. S., Larsen, C. H., Frederiksen, J. M., Christensen, T., & Sandøe, P. (2025) Preventive Veterinary Medicine. Elsevier Abstract Reports indicate that owners believe the health care costs for their dogs are too…

PhD Fellow: Architecture for data sharing is anything but smooth and seamless 

Data sharing across systems and countries is not just a technical challenge. It’s a negotiation filled with tension and friction, and the implications go far beyond the shape of the data architecture, says new PhD…

Exciting times at CAB

The first snow covered the country last week and numerous crates and boxes arrived at CAB, giving an early Christmas feeling. Two new Leica microscopes have been delivered, one at each campus, and installation is…

New insights into hologenomics research in wild vertebrates

In a new technical paper just published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, researchers highlight the potential of hologenomics to deepen our understanding of biological systems from a host-microbiota perspective.…

Caste Differentiation in Ants

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have revealed how a specific hormone regulates ant caste differentiation by phenotypic measurements of organ-level developmental changes and matching transcriptome analyses.…