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Health data storage has a climate cost. In the future data may be stored in DNA

A lot of energy is required to analyse and store large amounts of data. We may therefore have to take a different approach to data storage in the future. So says a professor Søren Brunak at the University of Copenhagen.

Random Forests Workshop

On 28/2 Jolanta Rieksta held Random forests workshop at VOLT. Random forests is a well-established machine learning algorithm...

Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole

University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems…

Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole

University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level. An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems…

Virtual reality matches real reality for med-student examination

Medical students can learn almost everything from books. Just not to recall their training in the chaos of a clinical situation. University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet usually test this skill in effective but…

Virtual reality matches real reality for med-student examination

Medical students can learn almost everything from books. Just not to recall their training in the chaos of a clinical situation. University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet usually test this skill in effective but…

Waste products could innovate pharmaceutical material design

Research highlights the potential for utilizing molecules extracted from side stream products in food and oil industry in the context of pharmaceutical innovation, showcasing the power of interdisciplinary research in…

Kjaergaard Group Research Workshop

On the 22nd and 23rd of march, the group held a research workshop with presentations of the current research in the group, and a visit from invited speaker Professor Olga Garmash. The workshop concluded with a group…

Cat and dog owners’ expectations and attitudes towards advanced veterinary care (AVC) in the UK, Austria and Denmark

This questionnaire study investigate cat and dog owners’ expectations and attitudes towards advanced veterinary care, and the factors that might influence those views.

Physicists develop modeling software to diagnose serious diseases

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark have recently published FreeDTS – a shared software package designed to model and study biological membranes.

New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland

The oldest Scandinavian bedrock was 'born' in Greenland according to a new geological study from the University of Copenhagen. The study helps us understand the origin of continents and why Earth is the only planet in…

Researcher: Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year – but a ban is not the solution

Annually, the global egg industry kills seven billion day-old male chicks because they don’t lay eggs and aren’t worth raising for meat. While several countries have banned the practice, neither bans nor other current…

Searching for ringdown higher modes

Do black holes behave as we expect? Is General Relativity the correct theory of gravity in the dynamical high-curvature regime? Spacetime vibrations, generated when the remnant black hole briefly shakes for a few…

Sarah Pearson among Berlingske’s top 100 talents

Each year Berlingske selects the 100 most promising young talents in Denmark in private industry and the public sector.

Elegant use of noise for quantum computing

Scientists around the world work hard to rinse quantum systems for noise, which may disturb the function of tomorrow’s powerful quantum computers. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have found a way to use noise…

Internships at Strong

Strong is now stronger, with two French students joining us for their Masters. Jamil Assaad joined us from Lyon and is working with Vitor and Rodrigo Panosso Macedo. The project aims to study black hole perturbation…

Multi-level and multi-stakeholder participation in policy processes to address climate change challenges

Read the reflections by the Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP) posted on LinkedIn after participating in the RUL4CLI workshop (24.1 2024) on stakeholder participation and engagement in policy processes related to…

New CPH Tech Policy Brief by DISTRACT researchers

DISTRACT researchers Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, and Helene Willadsen recently published a CPH Tech Policy Brief that dives into the concept of screen time and explores how people feel about engaging…

Irene Tamborra receives Elite Research Award

Queen Mary and Minister of Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund presented the Elite Research Award to NBIA Professor Irene Tamborra.

Irene Tamborra receives Elite Research Award

Irene Tamborra joined NBIA in 2016 as Knud Højgaard Foundation Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2021. Irene Tamborra has established the AstroNU group at NBIA with …

Lightning on exoplanets: Benefits to learning physics outside the solar system

Taking physics teaching several light-years away from our own planet can help students understand that the laws of physics are universal.

EU-project PREPARE4VBD held Annual meeting in Kenya

The PREPARE4VBD Project held their 3rd Annual Consortium meeting and summer-school in Kenya.

Visit from Professor Mark Potosnak

On Monday 11th, VOLT had a visit from Prof. Mark Potosnak whose research focuses on interactions between climate change, plants and air quality.

Straightening teeth? AI can help

A new tool being developed by the University of Copenhagen and 3Shape will help orthodontists correctly fit braces onto teeth. Using artificial intelligence and virtual patients, the tool predicts how teeth will move, s…