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We talk about the era of colonialism as something that is over. But we forget to ask — over for whom? In a new book, Professor Mathias Danbolt dwells on some of the most iconic and familiar images from the colonial period, and he asks us stay with the discomfort.
We take more photos than ever. But we are losing our connection to them. Professor Mette Sandbye has looked at family photo albums from the 1960s right through to our current age of algorithms.
Perhaps science needs to look in entirely new directions to crack the toughest unsolved problems. Clara Ferreira Cores explores the intersection of art and research in an unusual PhD project.
Research team at the Niels Bohr Institute cracked the enigma of red light sources in the early universe. We talked to the astrophysicists who were first to unravel the mystery.
After a summit called by the Minister for Higher Education and Science on academic freedom, a warning from humanities dean Kirsten Busch Nielsen: In a polarised public debate researchers are avoiding sensitive topics.
After an unusually high number of whale strandings since the turn of the year, experts from the Natural History Museum of Denmark have secured the lower jaws and other bones from the enormous animals. They will now be cleaned and catalogued so they can be used for research and become a part of the scientific collection.
People who are under pressure in their professional lives are willing to act brutally to climb the career ladder. And this can be exploited, new Copenhagen study shows.
At the Royal Danish Academy, David Dreyer Lassen spoke of fierce competition, an increase in fixed-term appointments, and the need for new criteria for recruitment of academics.
The soya bean is set to be replaced by the Danish pea in plant-based food. University of Copenhagen associate professor explains the sustainable food initiative.
An internship in Australia set off a research project on functional disorders. Now, two Danish students have published their results in one of the world’s leading medical journals.
