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UCPH scientists confirm the oldest life on earth

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.

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Education

Cholera kills in Africa – Gildas fights it in Copenhagen

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.

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Science

Universities share part of blame for rising distrust in scientists

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.

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Education

Andreas de Neergaard new Associate Dean for Education at Social Science

The Faculty of Social Sciences takes on a new associate dean from the Faculty of Science and focuses on globalization, digitalization and data science

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Science

An inventor's triumph and frustration

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.

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Science

Taking the supernatural seriously (academically speaking)

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

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Science

An app to put your heart at ease

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.

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Crowdfunding: 10 tips on how to take control and do it yourself

All beginnings are hard. This also goes for crowdfunding when you try it out for the first time. Here are 10 tips to make sure your project takes off

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Science

TOP 10: UCPH scientists with the most articles in Nature and Science

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.

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Science

Nordic record: UCPH the 'most published' in prestigious journals

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?

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