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Bee experts from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered an endangered bee at a military exercise site in the north of the Danish island of Zealand.
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer is the first female philosophy professor in the University of Copenhagen's 545-year history. She looks at the skewed gender balance in the field with both seriousness and humour.
Research managers need to be better at focusing on how researchers relate to each other in the workplace. If they don’t do this, it will be harder for them to recruit talented researchers, according to a professor. He has helped start a new initiative.
Helle Porsdam is a professor of history and cultural rights. And as a UNESCO Chair, she advocates for cultural human rights. Cultural human rights include science, and they are often overlooked.
The workshop is a key part of the cutting-edge research at the Niels Bohr Institute. It has, perhaps, the best working environment at the University of Copenhagen. And it can solve almost impossible tasks. Now they have finally got the pendulum swinging again
Human biologist Emil Andersen got an idea about how to cheaply measure the sperm quality of men who struggle with fertility. Now he has created an international business.
An investigation method that combined the analysis of DNA and genealogy may have solved a 34-year-old murder case. The Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Copenhagen helps the Danish police solve crimes.
Assistant Professor Marie Larsen Ryberg has observed courses where students were completely overwhelmed. But she found that this was precisely where the students learned the most. Here she offers up her advice on how teaching can open up a space for uncertainty.
Nicklas Brendborg is a bestselling author with two books on how we can live longer. The inspiration comes from the animal kingdom, and from experiments on his own body. We visited him in the laboratory where he is a PhD student.
Medical doctor and postdoc Amani Meaidi spends all her waking hours working against one particular imbalance: The amount of research into men's and women's diseases. She is so obsessed with women-specific genes that she sometimes gets a stress rash on her hands.
