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Music historian Christine Jeanneret has, after being ‘discovered’ by the Danish Institute in Rome, received a prize for outstanding research into the migration of Italian musicians and opera singers to Copenhagen 250 years ago.
Niels Thordal needed a couple of gap years to zoom in on the right study programme after high school. But he finally found his inspiration by working with giant, deadly, saltwater crocodiles on a safari farm in Australia.
Professor emeritus Heine Andersen worries that when publishing can be postponed, research results will be used to promote a political agenda.
Severe funding cuts threatened to decimate the staff at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. Until someone had a crazy idea.
A new report comparing freedom of research across 28 EU universities has ranked Denmark in 24th place. According to several experts, the university act does not adequately protect the academic freedom of researchers.
She is the unofficial University of Copenhagen fundraising champion. Ulla Wewer describes her 11 years as Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences as a 'golden age'. We asked her how she does it.
It took the workshop for fine mechanics three days to build a low-tech apparatus to cut hard grains of the barley plant into millimetre-thin slices so nutrition scientists could investigate their properties.
By combining measurements of gravitational waves and observations of light, the scientists have discovered and described a clash between two neutron stars. Analyses of light from the explosion - called a kilonova - show the creation of heavy elements, solving an older scientific problem.
Professor Jørgen Agerholm from the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, who has researched hereditary cattle diseases since 1989, has uncovered a completely new disease due to a mutation in a breeding stud.
A DKK 2.6 million apparatus was originally purchased for research in the oil industry. Today, chemistry lecturer Tue Hassenkam uses it to sniff out the birth of life on Earth. The device has already played an important role in a discovery that he published in 'Nature' in July, and now he dreams of looking for traces of life on Mars.
