Science

A new AI model with contributions from the University of Copenhagen can predict the onset of illness across entire populations. But it also raises ethical questions about data security — and about people’s right not to know which diseases might affect them in the future.

Stories of a deeply polarised United States are overblown. Just 1.1 per cent of Americans want an ethnically homogeneous society. This is according to a new study led by psychologist Séamus Power of the University of Copenhagen.

Oluf Borbye Pedersen has shown that humans are temporary guests on a planet that is actually ruled by bacteria. His discovery of gut microbes faced fierce resistance — but is now patented by the University of Copenhagen.

Denmark enters the global race for chip production — the University of Copenhagen and French company RIBER to build a new manufacturing plant in the Niels Bohr Building.

In 1936, seismologist Inge Lehmann was the first in the world to prove that the Earth has a solid inner core. She earned widespread international acclaim — but in Denmark, she received neither the title nor the recognition she deserved.

If University of Copenhagen's 38,000 students are representative, 1,300 of them have the skin condition plaque psoriasis. A lot of people have it, but current treatments are impractical. Two UCPH researchers have developed a clever alternative.

In body-temperature incubators at BRIC, a series of micro cancer tumours are growing — based on cells from real patients. The tumours can be used to test more than 1,000 alternative treatment options simultaneously.

David Dreyer Lassen sees a shift in the EU’s view on technology with both civilian and military uses — UCPH must decide where to draw the line.

Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.