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New Research: Strong Link Between Western Diet During Pregnancy and ADHD

New research from Denmark reveals that a mother’s diet during pregnancy—characterised by a Western dietary pattern high in fat and sugar and low in fresh ingredients—may increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders…

Petra Kristensen Slotterøy

This thesis examines Norway’s climate obligations in Greenpeace Nordic v Norway compared to the ECtHR’s Klimaseniorinnen ruling.

Major project launched: improving climate models with historical data

How can climate history help us create a more accurate picture of the future climate? A major European consortium, consisting of 24 partners, will spend the next four years working intensively to answer this question.

Tayo Elizabeth Gbemi

Tayo Gbemi researches environmental and participatory governance in wind energy licensing across Africa and Europe.

Ethicists' commentary on balancing religious tolerance and animal welfare

Ethical question of the month, December 2024 As a veterinarian contemplating a position at a federal meat processing plant, I am extremely uncomfortable with the recent federal injunction to forgo the requirement to…

50 million to revolutionize sustainable plant-based food production

Having secured a Novo Nordisk Foundation RECRUIT grant of DKK 50 mil. Professor Remko Boom is joining the Department of Food Science, where he will combine data- and food science to improve the sustainability of…

VOLT PhD student receives prestigious Elite Forsk travel grant

PhD student Marta Contreras Serrano from VOLT (Center for Volatile Interactions) at Copenhagen University's Department of Biology has received an EliteForsk travel grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and…

Jacob Bourjaily receives Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize 2025

At an award ceremony on February 24. former NBIA Associate Professor Jacob Bourjaily received the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025

VAT adjustments could save 170,000 lives a year in Europe

170,000 deaths a year could be avoided if European countries were to increase value-added tax (VAT) rates on meat and dairy products, while reducing them on fruits and vegetables. Such changes would also reduce Europe’s…

Daisy 7 Launch meeting 19th of March

Daisy version 7 will soon be available for all platforms featuring an updated ammonium sorption, updated Soil Organic Matter breakdown and a new python interface, among other things. In addition, we have a new Daisy…

Filippo Leveraro

Title: Novel Techniques for Fast and Precise Estimation of Qubit Decay Rates Supervisors: Jacob Hastrup and Morten Kjaergaaard

New insights into galaxy growth and dark matter from James Webb

An international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has released a comprehensive study on how galaxies and their dark matter have evolved across most of the history of the…

AI Unlocks the Emotional Language of Animals

Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A pioneering study suggests the answer is yes. Researchers from the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen have successfully trained a…

Katherine Richardson receives Planet Earth Award

Katherine Richardson receives the AWS Planet Earth Award for her contributions in science and science-policy interfaces.

Katherine Richardson receives Planet Earth Award

Katherine Richardson receives the AWS Planet Earth Award for her contributions in science and science-policy interfaces.

Biospace2025 - Biodiversity insight from space

Global Wetland Center was represented at Biospace2025, with a successful workshop focusing on wetland biodiversity

New member of Global Wetland Center

The Global Wetland Center is happy to welcome our newest PhD student Sarah Franze!

Nitrogen fixation on marine particles is important in the global ocean

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria found in marine waters can…

Paper selected for Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2024

The paper "Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders" by Poul H. Damgaard and Kanghoon Lee has been selected to be one out of six papers in the Physical Review Letters section of Particles and…

Hanzhi Wang awarded for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

Hanzhi Wang awarded the 2024 China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Changes in management of owned cats in the countryside

This study investigates changes in the management of owned domestic cats (Felis catus) in a rural area of Denmark, at two points in time separated by 24 years.

Soil microbiome inoculation could enhance forest restoration on post-agricultural lands

Can soil microbiome inoculation accelerate forest recovery on former agricultural lands? Researchers from the Silva Nova Project explore this innovative approach in a newly published opinion paper.

Tremendous funding success for VOLT Center!

Last week was filled with great news, as four(!) of our Center postdocs were awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowships! From left to right: Yunyao Ma, Wanying Zhang, Mehrshad Foroughan, and…

Climate Law Journal

Beatriz Martinez Romera, CLIMA's Head of Centre, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Climate Law, a peer-reviewed journal covering climate change law and its interaction with other legal fields.