Science

Before humans repurpose nature for our own needs, it is important to develop a language to discuss what nature is, say Mickey Gjerris and Johan Olsen in their new book.

The Niels Bohr Institute is to make a DKK 5 million payroll cut. Partly because the scientists have been good at getting research funding from councils and foundations.

In several homicides, statistics researcher Therese Graversen from the University of Copenhagen has helped British police to identify a probable offender. She uses a unique method, for the first time in English legal history, and which will set new standards for future legal proceedings.

Ten major foundations have granted 11.8 out of a total of DKK 15 billion to ongoing research projects at the University of Copenhagen. But the money is not just a blessing.

Rice plants 'breathe' through a thin gas coating, that works like the gills of fish. UCPH researcher has helped to locate the gene in rice that makes it water resistant for days. Now he wants to solve a wet climate challenge.

Clearly changes in immigration policy generate winners and losers. But perhaps not the winners and losers that the government might expect.

In the Andes Mountains, the young Assistant Professor Mattias Borg Rasmussen has learned about the local value and meanings of water. Here water is a symbol of life, a dwindling and complex resource and a creator of collaborations.