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Misguided sense of balance exacerbates climate scepticism

Many of us may have inadvertently contributed to the growing climate scepticism of recent years, a widespread phenomenon fuelled by “system errors” built into journalism, social media and parliamentary debates. A new…

Sea level will rise faster than previously thought

NBI researchers have constructed a new method of quantifying just how fast the sea will react to warming. The level of the sea is monitored meticulously, and we can compare the responsiveness in models with historical…

19.5 Mio to Crops For The Future

Professor Birger Lindberg Møller is a key collaborator in a new Semper Ardens project focusing on Sorghum with Carlsberg Research Laboratory and University of Queensland, Australia.

Georgios Magdis receives Villum Young Investigator Plus grant to investigate the beginning of galaxies

With the Villum Young Investigator Plus, he will be able to look even further into the past, to the first few billion years of galaxy evolution, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the James…

The Catcher in the Ice

A new device used to extract gas trapped in ice cores by sublimation will shave hours off the time needed by previous versions of the technology. It will use a light source with a more suitable wavelength, which will…

Wood formation can now be followed in real-time - and possibly serve the climate and builders of tomorrow

A genetic engineering method makes it possible to observe how woody cell walls are built in plants. The new research in wood formation, conducted by the University of Copenhagen and others, opens up the possibility of…

New study: Which beverages burst with umami potential?

In a new and first of its kind study, University of Copenhagen researchers study fermented beverages to find the one with the most umami flavour. Which one wins—champagne, beer, wine or sake? A UCPH researcher answers…

CPHSAXS, the In-House Biological Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) Facility at UCPH

CPHSAXS is a state-of-the-art, high-throughput, small-angle X-ray scattering instrument. Through funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the instrument is now in operation as an open facility.

Feature Interview: Henriette Elisabeth Autzen

Henriette Elisabeth Autzen is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In February 2020, Henriette was recruited as an Associate Professor in Biomolecular Sciences at the Department of Biology, UCPH, establishing her own lab…

Irene Tamborra receives grant to investigate the unknowns of neutron star mergers

The title is a little unusual for a scientific project: “Neutron stars - rattling, shining and sparkling”, but the idea is to take a closer look at where elements heavier than iron like platinum and gold actually come…

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

Virtual reality will help us in communicating the social benefits of vaccination

Professor Robert Böhm and Associate Professor Guido Makransky from the Department of Psychology have received funding for developing a virtual reality app to communicate herd immunity in vaccine advocacy.

New Professor investigates differential privacy techniques to protect sensitive data

How do we develop solutions that can make useful data analyses without invading privacy? Is it possible to share data on populations that cannot be traced back to individuals?

Athanasios Anastasiou

Galaxy evolution studies with the new, state of the art, multi-wavelength catalog in the COSMOS field Supervisors: Georgios MAGDIS and Iary DAVIDZON

Ella Jacobsen

Analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of plastics in the Baltic Sea Supervisor: Markus Jochum

New research project investigates: Can technology ensure a fair process for asylum seekers?

By combining methods from law, computer science, and health sciences, a new research project aims to find answers to why asylum cases have different outcomes in the Nordic countries.

David Aaron Soestmeyer

Local temperature reconstruction from gas trapping processes in the Dye 3 ice core from Greenland Supervisor: Thomas Blunier

Your organic waste will be upcycled to fertilise fields

Researchers behind a major EU project will develop technologies that make it easier to convert organic waste in our compostable trash bags into fertiliser. UCPH researcher says that agriculture sector needs to tackle…

The Niels Bohr Institute kick starts a new generation of climate scientists

There is a pressing need for skilled climate scientists with excellent insight into advanced mathematical theories as well as the physics of the Earth system. A European scientist training programme, CriticalEarth,…

The University of Copenhagen establishes a dedicated NLP research section

The University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science has become one of the top places for Natural Language Processing research in Europe.

How Earth’s oddest mammal got to be so bizarre

Often considered the world's oddest mammal, Australia’s beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has venomous spur…

Danish and Chinese tongues taste broccoli and chocolate differently

Two studies from the University of Copenhagen show that Danes aren’t quite as good as Chinese at discerning bitter tastes. The research suggests that this is related to anatomical differences upon the tongues of Danish…

Lara Möllney

Patterns of Dust-borne Iron Fertilization at the Last Glacial Maximum Supervisor: Markus Jochum

New technical Report - GIS

New technical report on GIS methodology published on the web site. The report describes how to perform GIS-based analysis to estimate the importance of each road in facilitating the mobility of urban residents and,…