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Research project will crack the code behind green neighbourhood communities

With support from THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS, new research anchored at the Department of Anthropology will examine how to create green neighbouring communities in housing associations.

New algorithm could save lives: Predicts COVID-related intensive care unit resource use

A new algorithm can predict how many patients will need intensive COVID-related healthcare. This is valuable knowledge when it comes to prioritising caregivers and ventilators in individual hospitals. The innovation…

New grant from VELUX FONDEN – Fighting food waste

From 2022 till 2025 CIP will be part of an interdisciplinary research project on food waste funded by VELUX FONDEN’s HUMpraxis programme.

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

We prefer farmed salmon – as long as we don't know what we're eating

A blind taste test by University of Copenhagen researchers demonstrates that Danes prefer the taste of both conventionally and organically farmed smoked salmon over wild-caught salmon. However, the picture is turned…

Science StoriesDK: Podcast on Plants Secret Life and Future Crops

In this Science Stories Podcast Head of DynaMo Professor Barbara Ann Halkier talk about her research in plants and sustainable agriculture. The interviewer is Journalist, Jens Degrett. Link to podcast

Artificial intelligence favours white men under 40

Publicly available language models of the sort used for everything from Google and Siri, to insurance and legal casework systematically favour the language of young white men. At the same time, they discriminate in…

New knowledge about our Earth’s most important biochemical reaction: A step towards increasing CO2 uptake in plants

A group of proteins in plant cells plays a vastly more important role in regulation of photosynthesis than once thought, according to new research at the University of Copenhagen. The research is an important step…

Dina Rapp

Title: Ice Flow and Machine Learning Supervisors: Christine Schøtt Hvidberg, Anne Munck Solgaard

Zebrafish reproduction affected by plastic particles in the aquatic environment

Plastic nanoparticles cause mild inflammation, disrupt metabolic pathways, change the gut microbiota and affect reproduction in zebrafish.

Copenhagen Ocean Hub is launched

Copenhagen Ocean Hub must explore the oceans as a social, political and cultural space and thus contribute to solving key problems in managing the oceans.

Researchers puncture explanation for largest increase of biodiversity in Earth's history

The greatest increase in marine biodiversity on Earth was not due to the explosion of an asteroid, as previously believed. In fact, the explosion caused the development of new animal species to stagnate for a period of…

Danes have reduced meat consumption – but we lag behind other Europeans

A major new survey on meat consumption in Europe reports that Europeans have a growing appetite for plant-based foods and that meat consumption has dipped. While this applies to Denmark as well, Danes lag behind the…

Katrine Frantzen

Spectral Analysis of the Kilonova AT2017GFO using Tardis and X-shooter Data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Katrine Høier Frantzen

Title: Spectral analysis of the kilonova AT2017gfo using TARDIS and X-shooter data Supervisor: Darach Jafar Watson

Mads Juhl Storr-Hansen

Title: Improvement of Photon PID through Machine Learning Supervisor: Troels Christian Petersen

Nikki Arendse

Cosmic Dissonance - Addressing tensions in modern cosmology Supervisors: Prof. Jens Hjorth and Dr. Radosław Jan Wojtak

Veterinarians’ course of treatment based on financial concerns

Ethical question of the month, August 2021 You are an employee of a veterinary hospital with strict billing protocols. If a treatment is deemed necessary to avoid unnecessary suffering or death then an estimate is…

Julien Westhoff

Visual Stratigraphy of the EastGRIP Ice Core Supervisors: Prof Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Prof Ilka Weikusat

Danish children love fish, but eat it all too rarely

Danish children eat less than a third of the recommended amount of fish. A new study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen reports that this isn’t because kids don’t like fish – in fact, they’re wild about it.…

Ultracoherent mechanical devices

Similarly, a phononic crystal is a fabricated object with a repeating pattern that gives it a particularly useful property – a bandgap that forbids the propagation of motion at certain frequencies. This allows us to…

Can we become more climate-friendly with the help of our personality traits?

Psychologists will investigate whether they can get participants to act more climate-friendly by adapting initiatives to their personality traits.

Innovative chip built by UCPH physicists resolves quantum headache

Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin qubits on the same quantum chip,…