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A dozen Microsoft employees are currently working with scientists at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The goal is to build the first functioning quantum computer. At the University of Copenhagen alone, Microsoft has invested a three-digit million (DKK) amount.
Mikkel Nørtoft solves the riddles of language. As a student of Indo-European Studies, he uses linguistics, archaeology and botany to find out where we come from.
The Danish government wants to increase the total public research funding to DKK 22.2 billion on its budget. But this remains below the 2016 level before the large scale cuts. And the so-called re-prioritization contribution will continue, each year cutting two per cent from the universities’ grants for education.
It’s 9:56 am, and the first patient of the day is ready to be operated on. He’s three months old, weighs 190 kilos and is fully anesthetized. The five-person operation team is ready, too. For three of them, the surgery is part of their education.
It is the latest huge grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to UCPH. Researchers are to find new treatments for two types of blood cancer. The development of drugs for these diseases came to a standstill many years ago.
The Department of Computer Science at UCPH has jumped to 11th place on the world's best computer science departments list. UCPH is the only European university on the list apart from ETH in Switzerland.
For Gojko Barjamovic, a master’s degree in Assyriology from UCPH was the path to a job at one of the world's most prestigious universities.
Two UCPH researchers confirm in an article in Nature that there are traces of life in the world's oldest rocks. The rocks are in Greenland and are 3.7 billion years old. The two have used a completely new method.
27-årige Gildas Hounmanou arbejder med sin ph.d. på Københavns Universitet for at kunne vende tilbage til sit hjemland Benin og bekæmpe de mange udbrud af kolera i hele Afrika.
Disbelief in scientific knowledge is spreading and the universities are partly to blame. That is according to the organizers of a large conference for scientific journalism set to take place in June in Copenhagen.
