Science

A new treatment concept that uses pulsating electromagnetic fields can cure patients with chronic depression. But, according to the inventor, it is an open question whether Denmark is too conservative for something so new to win over the health system.

Should anthropologists take shamans, spirits and other supernatural phenomena seriously? For some, the idea is absurd, but, as University of Copenhagen anthropologist Morten Axel Pedersen explains, it might not be as far out as it sounds

A UCPH computer scientist has helped develop an IT system that eliminates the time wasted for cardiologists who would otherwise have had to make repeated calls in vain to heart patients.

UCPH has published a list showing which university researchers have published the most articles in Nature and Science journals and subsidiaries. Eske Willerslev is on the list. But he is far from top spot.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen get more articles published in the two most important scientific journals Nature and Science than their Nordic colleagues. Does this mean that the University of Copenhagen is the best university in the Nordic region?

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, is dying. A student from the University of Copenhagen helped document this while on exchange at James Cook University in Australia.