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Copenhagen on the map for ´map app´ conference

Developers and users get together to talk about the mapping software QGIS. Lecturer and developer Tim Sutton explains to the University Post why it should be kept open source

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Up on the ice sheet - looking down with a radar

Thousands of years ago a volcano somewhere in the world erupted. Now we can see its acid and dust in the ice with our radar equipment. Nanna is doing field work on the top of Greenland

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Twins stuck together and other curiosities in new medical exhibition

Up close and personal with the human body. Soon at Medical Museion, the Body Collected

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Goodbye to the old-fashioned microscope

Virtual microscopy has sent the microscope into retirement at the Faculty of Health and Medicine Sciences. A virtual specimen database is expanding and has revolutionized teaching

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Future scientists! My advice to you is...

Concise advice to junior scientists from established scientists

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Comment: A different kind of mentoring

One-sentence mentoring is a unique initiative from the University of Cambridge, UK. It is inspiring us here in Copenhagen.

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Funding is not everything, says modest Nobel biochemist

Biochemist and Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt on collaboration, ideas and getting used to scientific prestige

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Conference on brains, behaviour and business

It is the buzzword in business: Cognitive science. Conference at the Faculty of Humanities will discuss brains, behaviour, and the business world

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Growing chemicals out of moss

Valuable medical, antibacterial and flavour compounds being produced out of the green stuff. Former students of the University of Copenhagen behind the company Tycho Bio

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UCPH geography students on Svalbard - photo series

Geography student Laura shares her images from the first week of study placement on the arctic island archipelago of Svalbard

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