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Band uses sounds from 80s computer

Remember the Commodore 64? Some years ago, a group of computer science graduates from the University of Copenhagen, set up a band using its tones

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Campus

Inside the new KUA 2 buildings

Before it officially opens next week, the University Post went snooping inside the new Faculty of Humanities building on Amager

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Politics

EU scoreboard: Danes are innovative

Denmark is one of the most innovative countries, according to the latest EU Commission analysis. But it lags behind in attracting international scientists, and Danish students are slow

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Science

High hopes for ‘map app’ courses

Geographical information systems, ‘GIS’, are being used for almost everything now, including map applications on smart phones. Students from 14 countries took a course on it

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Science

So what is GIS?

With Geographical Information Systems, known as GIS, you can map everything

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Opinion

Comment: Stop the ´doom and gloom´ health rhetoric

Lifestyle diseases like obesity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, are often seen as inevitable: An upcoming tsunami of disease, and an economic and social threat, that is just too big to do something about. But we should focus on the opportunities instead, argues Copenhagen health scientist

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Science

Best year ever for Øresund Aquarium

More paying visitors to the University of Copenhagen's sea-water aquarium in 2012, than in any other year since its creation in 1973

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Science

New medical search engine FindZebra diagnoses rare diseases

FindZebra, co-developed by a University of Copenhagen assistant lecturer diagnoses rare and genetic diseases more accurately

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Campus

Surge of volunteers to the Studenterhuset

120 volunteers, mostly international, now tend the bar and organise the social and academic events at Copenhagen’s student café. There are many Danes, but more from other countries, with the biggest group from America

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Campus

War of the Wardrobes: Calgary student fashion

Popular demand has us back with our competitive student fashion series, the War of the Wardrobes! We start up with the University of Calgary, next to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and pitch it against a set from the Faculty of Health and Medicine in Copenhagen

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