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Climate expert John R. Porter has never stopped being curious

John R. Porter retires after 35 years of crop science. The 67-year-old professor emeritus is now France's oldest postdoc

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Recognised climate expert a new professor at Niels Bohr

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen is an expert in using climate modelling to predict the climate of the future. Now the Niels Bohr Institute is hiring him as professor

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Gamma-ray burst triumph gets largest Danish individual research award

Great ideas and scientific advances in cosmology have secured the University of Copenhagen’s annual Villum Kann Rasmussen award to Professor Jens Hjorth from UCPH. His work is in understand dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95 per cent of the universe

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Researchers: Denmark has been an activist nation for a long time

Two UCPH researchers have been tasked by the Danish parliament to find out what we can learn from Denmark’s violent recent history. Perhaps we can learn that there is a surprising continuity in the Danish conduct of foreign policy, even if the methods change

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The forgotten collection

In the basement of the old Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University deformed animals are kept in formalin. The veterinary collection of deformities has lost its scientific value, but it is a cultural treasure that is in danger of disappearing

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UCPH scientists identify climate-friendly gas alternative

A new gas affects global warming 93 per cent less than the gas presently used in the electricity grid's substations. Researcher from the University of Copenhagen leads the team that has identified the substance

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The big quantum gamble at the University of Copenhagen

QUBITS - Microsoft wants a quantum computer. The University of Copenhagen wants a Nobel Prize (it has been 40 years since it last happened). So Microsoft is now moving into the university to build a groundbreaking new computer based on fundamental research from physicists.

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Penkowa is publishing again

Infamous scientist Milena Penkowa is up and running again. Now with a scientific article about the side effects of chemotherapy

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Thybo’s colleagues support their management

Sacked professor Hans Thybo has got support in his fight against University of Copenhagen management from students, from international peers, from within the UCPH Board and from one of the world's leading scientific journals. But his own department colleagues support UCPH management "in all aspects of the department’s activities”

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Polar researcher’s October sun

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – Job perks as a polar researcher include the exciting natural world experiences. Enjoy photos and coverage from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve.

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