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What the heck are pulses? European unawareness stands in the way of this “green” superfood

European consumption of pulses doesn’t stack up against national dietary recommendations – with Denmark in last place. This is the finding of a new EU-funded study by the University of Copenhagen as part of the…

Construction work near the Biocenter

There is a risk that this type of construction work may be noisy and can sometimes produce low-frequency vibrations. For further details, please see the attached letter from the construction management (in Danish only).…

COVID calculations spur solution to old problem in computer science

Mathematician from University of Copenhagen was keen to forecast the evolvement of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades.

Lachlan Bryant Lugg

Investigation of the ongoing impacts of climate change in Australia

Eva Maria Gonzalez Ruiz

Single-photon sources as a key resource for developing a global quantum network Supervisor: Prof. Anders S. Sørensen

Anna Ida Katharina Kirchner

Title: North Atlantic Circulation Variability and Teleconnections to Surface Climate Conditions in CMIP6 Models Supervisor: Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Christian Michelsen

Biological Data Science - Ancient genomics, anesthesiology, epidemiology, and a bit in between Principal Supervisor: Troels C. Petersen, NBI Co-supervisor: Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Globe Institute

The Vetschool receives important accreditation: “It means everything!”

The EAEVE accreditation is vital to the veterinary programme’s international collaborations and the existence of the animal hospitals. “Without it, too many doors would close on us,” says Professor Charlotte Reinhard…

Christoffer Ousager

The role of International Law in accommodating Climate Action in the European Union

Cells use mechanical principles to integrate within existing tissues, new study shows

A new interdisciplinary study reveals how new cells join a tissue by reading mechanical information from the neighboring tissue. They use cellular fingers called filopodia to touch the neighboring cells to open up the…

Maja Skafsgaard

2020hgw: Properties of an Unusually Bright Type II Supernova Supervisors: Charlotte Angus & Christa Gall

BBC Interview with Maria Pettersson

Maria Pettersson, partner in the FutureArcticLives project, in interview with BBC News about the plight of reindeer herders in the face of the Arctic industry boom.

Hussam receives Carlsberg Foundation grant

Research Infrastructure

Hussam receives grant from NNF

Exploratory interdisciplinary synergy grant

Daisy Newsletter 31 and 32 out

Daisy Newsletter 32 is out AgroEco-HPM funded Daisy Newsletter 31 is also out, some time ago Daisy 6.32 released

Edis Devin Tireli and Mads Mølbak Hyttel

Exploring a common solution to Dark Matter, Neutrino oscillations and Baryogenesis of the Universe Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Oleg Ruchayskiy

Sustainable labs are climate-friendly and save money

More than 1,200 researchers and laboratory technicians are involved in a new programme that has led to more sustainable laboratories at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It benefits the climate and creates green…

Ethicists’ commentary on inappropriate home treatment

Ethical question of the month, October 2022 You are an ambulatory veterinarian who offers occasional service to a remote community. There is a rescue agency in the community that uses the pro bono or deeply discounted…

An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has co-edited the book An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies, authored the preface and in collaboration with Maja Hojer Bruun, the chapter 'Drones as a gendered matter of concern'

Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies and Everyday Life

Associate Professor Karen Waltorp has edited the book Energy Futures. She contributed the chapter ‘Imagining energy futures beyond colonial continuation‘.

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Early forests did not change the atmospheric CO2 level very much

Earth scientists from University of Copenhagen have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet.

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…