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Research links older dads to genetic diseases

Children of older fathers are more likely to have certain genetic diseases. U of C research collaboration pinpoints testicular tumors as the cause

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Science

The future looks short and chubby

Natural selection ignores the advancement of medicine and improved public health. Evolution still favours those that have the most children. This means the women of the future will be a bit shorter and bit a heavier

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Science

Diabetes shot beats slimming pills

Research by University of Copenhagen obesity expert Arne Astrup shows diabetes injection is more effective than one of the leading obesity drugs

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Science

New enzymes cut pollution

University of Copenhagen chemists create a fast-acting, powerful enzyme to replace dangerous chemicals

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Culture

Palestinian poet to talk exile

The Palestinian poet and author, Mourid Barghouti's I Saw Ramallah has just been translated into Danish, and for this occasion he is visiting the University of Copenhagen

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Campus

Climate lecture cancelled

Ed Miliband, Britain's energy and climate change secretary, has cancelled his upcoming climate lecture at the University of Copenhagen on Saturday 24 October

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Opinion

Neo-liberalism, socialism: Never the same again

Governments of the US and UK have grown continuously for the past decades. What exactly is happening here and what can we expect in the future? The University Post sought out an answer from the political theorist Noel Parker

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Campus

New university building is carbon neutral

Some said it couldn’t be done – and that if we did, it would be ugly. Not so, says Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard to University Post

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International

German universities: Give us more money

Germany needs to boost university funding. This is according to Margret Wintermantel, the President of Germany's Rectors' Conference.

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International

God is sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider

Is the CERN experiment LHC’s purpose so »abhorrent to nature« that it is being sabotaged by its own future? University of Copenhagen physicist blames ‘backward causation’ for the collider’s teething troubles

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