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Black holes — and the physics and dreams of Albert

Albert Sneppen is a bright young star in the field of astrophysics . He has his own key to Copenhagen’s medieval Round Tower and has just finished a book about the universe's black holes. »My publisher joked that the book was written for the nerdy dad type. But my hope is that it is the 14-year-old girls that get their hands on it.«

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Education

From India to the University of Copenhagen to learn waste recycling

He got on a plane for the first time in his life to go to an industrial district 90 km west of Copenhagen. Here, in the first year of a new Master's degree programme, Lokesh Venkatesan is specializing in bio-waste.

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Science

Avocados get the blame when meat-eaters defend their eating habits

Consumers resort to excuses when they want to avoid cutting back on meat in their diets. The avocado, in particular, seems to be suitable.

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Science

They thought it was extinct: Bee seen for the first time since 1973

Bee experts from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered an endangered bee at a military exercise site in the north of the Danish island of Zealand.

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People

Six million kroner for research into plant buds

»I'm very proud of this grant because I came to Denmark 15 years ago with an inferiority complex,« says molecular plant biologist Laura Arribas-Hernandez, a new research director.

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Science

New initiative: Research culture needs 'kindness' as a core value

Research managers need to be better at focusing on how researchers relate to each other in the workplace. If they don’t do this, it will be harder for them to recruit talented researchers, according to a professor. He has helped start a new initiative.

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Science

He invented a home sperm test when he was a PhD student

Human biologist Emil Andersen got an idea about how to cheaply measure the sperm quality of men who struggle with fertility. Now he has created an international business.

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Student life

TEST: Can you get around CSS campus with a pram?

If you have your baby with you at the Faculty of Social Sciences, you have to change its diapers on the floor. Two students do not understand why the facilities for new parents at the University of Copenhagen are so bad.

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Campus

TEST: Can you get around the Faculty of Law in a wheelchair?

The Faculty of Law is well equipped for wheelchair users. We were given a guided tour by law student Emilie Ghali, who has only positive things to say about the accessibility at her faculty. She feels one hundred percent included.

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Academic life

TEST: Can you get around Frederiksberg Campus in a wheelchair?

Frederiksberg campus reminds you of one of those impossible M. C. Escher illusions: Many stairways, and many reasons to just give up.

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