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Inequality under hypercapitalism calls for humanist reform, says cultural psychology scholar

The experience of injustice can trigger anger and protest when people feel that their status, identity and recognition are under threat, Séamus Anthony Power argues in a new book.

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Science

UCPH’s new head of security must reconcile intelligence-service logic with open research

After 13 years with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Esbern Stig Møller will now protect UCPH’s research from espionage by foreign states. But he acknowledges that security may conflict with the University’s openness.

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Science

In a Copenhagen suburb UCPH experiment with Frankenstein trees and seeds for the future

For 70 years, the University of Copenhagen’s living gene bank Pometet has preserved old fruit varieties, experimented with new cultivation methods, and fought to hold on to space in a surrounding world that has repeatedly tried to build over it.

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Education

Danish researchers lose access to the world’s largest university press

After a year and a half of negotiations, the Royal Danish Library and Danish Universities have given up on reaching a new agreement with Oxford University Press. In the humanities, Associate Professor Christian Dahl fears that researchers and students will overlook important knowledge.

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Science

Ancient feuds over power, magic and economy come back to life online

A research project between the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark has opened up ancient cuneiform tablets to the public, bringing more than 4,000 years of history etched in clay back to life.

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Science

The images that veil Denmark’s colonial past

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.

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Science

The stories we kept: Inside family photo albums

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.

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Science

She brings the circus into physics — and questions everything

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.

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Science

Astrophysicists solved mystery of red dots

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.

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Science

Dean: Academic freedom should never be taken for granted

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.

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