2017 – University of Copenhagen

Study: Structured daily habits may be the key to lasting weight loss

2017.12.22

New findings from a small study at the University of Copenhagen suggest that people who structure…

Chaos in the transition from sleep to awake

2017.12.15

Danish researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have investigated how to describe one of the most…

Pesticide researcher: Deeper understanding of cocktail effects is a must

2017.12.13

One group of chemicals, known as synergistic chemicals, makes it hard to accurately calculate…

Research project will create healthier infant formula

2017.12.12

Many newborn babies are given infant formula, which is not as beneficial as natural breast milk.…

Fascinated by fish

2017.12.06

Camilla Trab Damsgaard, Associate Professor in child nutrition at the University of Copenhagen’s…

Qubits put into reverse

2017.11.30

A group of scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has figured out how to…

From deep under the Antartica-surface: IceCube has collected new knowledge about high-energy neutrino physics

2017.11.23

High-energy neutrinos ‘caught’ in Antarctica Scientists from NBI were part of an international team…

EU trade ban brings down global trade in wild birds by 90 %

2017.11.22

Trade of wild birds has dropped about 90% globally since the EU banned bird imports in 2005. A stud…

Research talents propose solutions for global challenges

2017.11.20

Three-hundred talented life science students from seven of Europe's top universities assembled for…

Ink from ancient Egyptian papyri contains copper

2017.11.10

Until recently, it was assumed that the ink used for writing was primarily carbon-based at least…

New lecture series at the Nordic Food Lab: Monday Aperitivo

2017.11.06

The Nordic Food Lab at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has started…

Danish islands - an overlooked reservoir of insect genetic diversity?

2017.10.27

Insect account for the largest biodiversity and significant part of the biomass here on Earth, but…

Neutron star smash shakes universe

2017.10.17

Scientists have, for the first time, captured gravitational waves as well as light, from two neutro…

Now we know where the heavy elements come from

2017.10.16

The discovery of a kilonova produced by the collision of two neutron stars brings researchers a big…

By changing one detail you can improve the whole

2017.10.06

What drives me in my job every day is that we constantly have the opportunity to do even better. By…

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

2017.10.05

Early humans seem to have recognised the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and…

Greenlandic deltas have grown as a result of the warmer climate

2017.10.05

In an article just published in Nature, researchers from the University of Copenhagen show how…

FOOD and AAK want to revolutionise the fat in ice cream

2017.10.04

Can you make ice cream with unsaturated oil? Researchers at AAK AB, which produces vegetable oils,…

ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space

2017.10.03

Observations made with ALMA and ESA’s Rosetta mission by an international team, including…

3D printed food to help hospital patients

2017.10.03

The Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen is taking part in a new research…

New ’building material’ points toward quantum computers

2017.10.02

A Danish-American research team has shown that it is possible to produce ‘Majorana particles’ in a…

Supercontinuum lasers can lead to better bread and beer

2017.09.19

Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark…

Video about gastrophysics with professor Ole G. Mouritsen

2017.09.19

Video from professor Ole G. Mouritsen's professor inaugural lecture with the title: Gastrophysics -…

Outstanding PhD trio receives honours

2017.09.18

On Friday, September 15, the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science presented awards to thre…

Star formation influenced by local environmental conditions

2017.09.15

Three scientists at Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, have carried out extensiv…

Young research talents receive prestigious grant

2017.09.12

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Starting Grants to five young…

Jorge Ruiz-Carrascal becomes affiliate meat professor at FOOD

2017.09.11

Professor Jorge Ruiz-Carrascal’s appointment as affiliated meat technology professor at the…

Microsoft establishes Quantum Centre at the University of Copenhagen

2017.09.06

The University of Copenhagen plays a central role in an ambitious Microsoft multi-million dollar…

Massive Antarctic Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Abrupt Southern Hemisphere Climate Changes Near the End of the Last Ice Age

2017.09.05

Halogen-rich eruptions created a stratospheric ozone hole over Antarctica that, analogous to the…

From ”cook and look” to mechanistic food science

2017.08.24

Professor of Food Chemistry Leif Skibsted from the Department of Food Science at the University of…

New Head of Department at the Niels Bohr Institute

2017.08.22

Jan W. Thomsen’s appointment as Head of Department at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr…

Celebrated gastronomy professor at FOOD

2017.08.21

Ole G. Mouritsen is a professor of gastrophysics and culinary food innovation at the Department of…

Satellite photos reveal gigantic outburst floods

2017.08.13

The lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years - each…

Chinese TV visited FOOD

2017.08.11

Chinese CCTV visited Nordic Food Lab at the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of…

Spying on malaria parasites at -196 Celsius

2017.08.08

A team of scientists led by postdoc Sergey Kapishnikov from the Niels Bohr Institute has managed to…

New professor in how food microbes affect our health

2017.07.17

Microbiologist Dennis Sandris Nielsen from the Department of Food Science at the University of…

Smart atomic cloud solves Heisenberg's observation problem

2017.07.13

One of the most fundamental principles of physics, "Quantum Back Action", has been challenged by…

Iron secrets behind superconductors unlocked

2017.07.07

Due to magnetism iron should - theoretically - be a poor superconductor. Nevertheless certain…

The University of Copenhagen contributes to the largest global restoration of forests and forest landscapes in history

2017.06.26

The University of Copenhagen collaborates with the international movement, “The Bonn Challenge” in…

New ice core drilling in Northeast Greenland to help us prepare for climate change

2017.06.26

The East Greenland Ice-Core Project – EastGRIP – is led by the Centre for Ice and Climate at the…

FOOD hosted the world's largest conference on NIR Spectroscopy

2017.06.23

Professor Søren Balling Engelsen from the University of Copenhagen (FOOD) has just hosted a great…

High School Students! Don't cheat! You'll get busted eventually

2017.06.21

More than 6% of the Danish high school pupils cheat with assignments or at their final exams. Some…

Minister was external examiner for PhD defence

2017.06.19

The importance of camel milk was emphasised when the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Professor…

Statistics professor named Teacher of the Year at SCIENCE 2017

2017.06.14

TEACHER OF THE YEAR Professor Susanne Ditlevsen at the Department of Mathematical Sciences is so…

Process Analytical Technology creates smart production

2017.06.14

Many manufacturing companies still base their production on a few seasoned employees who have a hig…

Post-learning exercise improves learning retention for kids

2017.06.13

University of Copenhagen study demonstrates that exercise immediately after learning improves…

New research provides practical cooking tips for your red wine sauce

2017.06.06

Can you get intoxicated by pouring beer or wine into your sauce or stew? This question is important…

New research will provide better quality of dairy products with plant polyphenols

2017.06.06

Associate Professor Marianne Nissen Lund at Department of Food Science (FOOD) and Department of…

New map of life on Earth shows how we can halt the worlds sixth great extinction

2017.06.06

International study examines a bold new approach to halting the world’s sixth great extinction.

Quick measurements and mathematics combat waste in Danish biotech companies

2017.06.02

Food researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen combat waste i…

Bridging industry and the University of Copenhagen

2017.05.24

38-year-old Associate Professor Søren Stobbe of the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute…

Scythian horse breeding unveiled: lessons for animal domestication

2017.04.27

A new study led by Professor Ludovic Orlando and published in Science unveils the secrets of horse…

New astronomy center will reveal the cosmic dawn

2017.04.19

Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is a new basic research centre funded by the Danish National Research…

An important step towards new malaria medicine

2017.04.12

An international research team, led by Sergey Kapishnikov and Jens Als-Nielsen from the X-ray and…

How we can add to the good lives of older people

2017.04.07

Over the last decades, a considerable amount of research has been focussed on children and young…

Judith Kyst: We are gathering and sharing our knowledge about the good life in old age

2017.04.06

The Department of Food Science, together with two other departments at the University of Copenhagen…

Large ERC grant for Kim Sneppen

2017.04.05

An advanced ERC grant for Kim Sneppen of DKK 16.500.000 was awarded for development of new methods…

Nordic Food Lab publishes book on eating insects

2017.04.05

How do you harvest ants from an anthill in the forest? How does trading occur with insects in…

Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: new robust oilseed crop can resist global warming

2017.03.28

University of Copenhagen and the global player Bayer CropScience have successfully developed a new…

New Structural Biology Cluster at the University of Copenhagen

2017.03.24

The University of Copenhagen is establishing a new cluster, ISBUC, which compiles researchers from…

Ice core-researcher, astrophysicist and computer scientist honoured by VILLUM FONDEN

2017.03.23

Professors Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jens Hjorth and Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen’s…

New centre of excellence in algorithms research in Copenhagen

2017.03.20

With a grant of DKK 40m from the VILLUM Investigator Programme, four international leading…

Universities want to help companies benefit from materials research of the future

2017.03.20

How might Danish firms large and small make use of the world’s most powerful neutron and X-ray…

Surprise: Transport proteins evolved long before their compounds emerged

2017.03.09

Danish scientists from the DynaMo Center, University of Copenhagen, bridge an important gap that…

Breakthrough in live coral imaging

2017.03.06

Scientists at University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and…

Elite Research Prize won by a mathematician in a league of his own

2017.02.27

On February 23, Professor Søren Galatius of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of…

Fermentation creates sustainable growth in the West African food sector

2017.02.20

In West Africa, spontaneously fermented foods are deeply embedded in the food culture and the…

Researchers will find the structure of the smallest building blocks in nano-chemistry

2017.02.07

Structure and function on nano-scale level. Two young researchers from University of Copenhagen hav…

World renown climate expert to become professor

2017.02.06

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen to take up professorship at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr…

Researchers cultivate wine gold in Danish apples

2017.02.06

Researchers at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen are searching for the…

New Danish research collaboration will investigate effects of climate change on snail-borne parasites

2017.01.30

New research platform will shed light on how climate change affects the spread of freshwater snails…

Math learned best when children move

2017.01.30

Children improve at math when instruction engages their own bodies. This is one of the findings fro…

Scientists show how cells communicate

2017.01.30

Primary cilia are antenna-like structures that are present on the surface of most cells in the huma…

Danish astronomer to receive major research award

2017.01.23

Jens Hjorth, professor and director of the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen,…

Most of the world is dark

2017.01.20

"The universe is dark – and mainly consists of dark matter and dark energy. Only 5% of the universe…

The Indonesian fermented food tempe in Scandinavian context

2017.01.16

Head Chef at the Nordic Food Lab, University of Copenhagen, Roberto Flore on how the lab is…

Routes of migratory birds follow today’s peaks in resources

2017.01.04

Movement of migratory birds is closely linked to seasonal availability of resources. The birds…

Katherine Richardson among the 15 scientists to draft UN Report on Sustainable Development

2017.01.04

Katherine Richardson from Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate is among the 15 scientists…

AMPK – the enzyme that makes physical activity healthy

2017.01.02

Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that…