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New study pinpoints the weaknesses in AI

ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. As the first in the world researchers from University of Copenhagen has proven mathematically…

Yannick Elias Heiser

Title: The role of grain size on ice properties and deformation Supervisors: Anders Svensson

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to five European pioneers who discovered the link between greenhouse gases and rising global temperatures enclosed within the polar ice. Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen from PICE at th…

A delicious surprise: Vertically farmed greens taste as good as organic ones

Consumer skepticism about the taste of vertically farmed greens is widespread. But the first scientific taste test from the University of Copenhagen and Plant Food & Research, New Zealand shows that respondents rate…

ERSILIA GUARINI

Exploring the High-Energy Transient Universe with Neutrinos Supervisor: Prof. Irene Tamborra

How did the bushpig cross the strait? A great puzzle in African mammal biogeography solved by genomics

Africa has a huge diversity of large mammals, but their evolutionary relationships and movement across the continent over time often remain a mystery. A new scientific study led by researchers from the University of…

Marcia Tiemi Saito visiting from Brazil

Marcia Tiemi Saito (Federal Institute of Paraná, Brazil) will be a Guest Researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive from February 2024 to January 2025.

Jann Zosso joins Strong

More than a hundred years after Einstein's prediction of their existence, the gravitational wave revolution in physics has now begun. While almost a hundred events of binary coalescence's have already been observed and…

Assistant Professor Jose Ezquiaga brings NBIA into the LIGO Collaboration

Assistant Professor Jose Maria Ezquiaga has led NBIA to become a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. This represents the first LIGO group in Denmark and will join an international association with more than 150…

A grassroot movement fighting for sustainability grown big

CPR Goes Green started as a grassroot initiative at CPR almost four years ago. Now the initiative has spread to many places at SUND and the “Goes Green”-teams are learning from each other’s initiatives to help labs to…

Deyang Xu receives new NNF grant

Project description: Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is the world’s third largest oilseed crop. The press cake that remains after oil pressing contains 30-40% protein with an excellent amino acid composition. The press cake i…

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

NBI joins the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration was responsible for the discovery of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes in 2015, which granted the founders of the project the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017. Since then…

Ethicists’ commentary on current considerations when advising on destroying honeybee colonies

Ethical question of the month, October 2023 You are a veterinarian who advises on the care of honeybees. You have a client with a colony that is suspected to be infected with American foulbrood, a reportable disease in…

2023 Publications Highlights

VOLT center started this year and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. While most of the new data still needs to be…

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

Alessandro Galli

Alessandro Galli is LLM candidate in Law at the University of Milan. His master thesis research focuses on the role of the State aid as a potential tool for the protection of the environment, the development of renewabl…

AI can spot suicidal tendencies among young people

An increasing number of young people are attempting suicide. While old methods of assessing risk factors have limited effect, artificial intelligence can help spot the most important warning signs. This is according to …

Call for Abstracts – InterAct Conference International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change

The Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen welcomes proposals for paper presentations for the conference ‘International law-making: Actors in shipping and…

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Oceans Special Edition

The Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) and the Copenhagen Ocean Hub are organizing a special edition of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability with a focus on oceans. The…

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position

A tenure-track assistant professor position available at the department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

10 months of VOLT: a review of 2023

VOLT has started in March 2023 and what a year it has been! The official opening ceremony was in June, with a great turnout, VIP guest speakers and a musical moment, followed by a reception. In addition, while waiting…