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She has been a climate scientist for five decades. Now she has a message for young people

She has been the face of ice core research at the University of Copenhagen for decades. Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has gone to Canada to make room for the next generation. Her message is: You should change – not fear – the future.

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Psychedelic trips help cure psychiatric disorders at University of Copenhagen clinic

The psychedelic substance psilocybin can have a healing effect on people with psychiatric disorders. At the Copenhagen University Clinic for Psychedelic Research, they treat patients with therapy and a psilocybin trip, and the results are promising.

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Avocados get the blame when meat-eaters defend their eating habits

Consumers resort to excuses when they want to avoid cutting back on meat in their diets. The avocado, in particular, seems to be suitable.

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They thought it was extinct: Bee seen for the first time since 1973

Bee experts from the University of Copenhagen have rediscovered an endangered bee at a military exercise site in the north of the Danish island of Zealand.

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The University of Copenhagen gets its first female philosophy professor

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer is the first female philosophy professor in the University of Copenhagen's 545-year history. She looks at the skewed gender balance in the field with both seriousness and humour.

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New initiative: Research culture needs 'kindness' as a core value

Research managers need to be better at focusing on how researchers relate to each other in the workplace. If they don’t do this, it will be harder for them to recruit talented researchers, according to a professor. He has helped start a new initiative.

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Did you know that you have a right to science?

Helle Porsdam is a professor of history and cultural rights. And as a UNESCO Chair, she advocates for cultural human rights. Cultural human rights include science, and they are often overlooked.

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This team fixed the Foucault pendulum at the Geocenter

The workshop is a key part of the cutting-edge research at the Niels Bohr Institute. It has, perhaps, the best working environment at the University of Copenhagen. And it can solve almost impossible tasks. Now they have finally got the pendulum swinging again

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He invented a home sperm test when he was a PhD student

Human biologist Emil Andersen got an idea about how to cheaply measure the sperm quality of men who struggle with fertility. Now he has created an international business.

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From DNA sample to DNA profile: Forensic geneticists behind closed doors

An investigation method that combined the analysis of DNA and genealogy may have solved a 34-year-old murder case. The Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Copenhagen helps the Danish police solve crimes.

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