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Up close, eye-to-eye with the jellyfish

Common jellyfish have 8, maybe 16(!) eyes and small brains. Jussi fishes them out of the water and studies them for his Master's. Read the story and see the video

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Got hiccups? You can now cure it with a rectal massage

People should not be penalised for their oddity. 'Researcher of research' Marc Abrahams talked to the University Post at the 'silly' research Ig Nobel event, which also featured Kees Moeliker of dead duck fame

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Analysis: In the digital age, the humanities can afford to go on the offensive

Humanities subjects should stop using defensive tactics, writes philosophy professor Vincent Hendricks in a piece just published in The Conversation. The humanities should be at the vanguard, setting new standards

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Sex and violence in the Far North

A PhD student explains the connection between Icelandic sagas and reality TV

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Duck rapes a dead duck. Science? Yes, at Ig Nobel Prizes

Researchers swallowing shrews without chewing and homosexual, necrophiliac ducks: The Ig Nobel Prize Denmark tour promises to combine the funny with the informative

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Dean: Science's named persons scheme for suspected misconduct - a precaution (updated)

Two professors appointed in a new role to address suspected cases at the Faculty of Science and to give independent advice on co-authorship. Should be seen as a precaution, Dean says to the University Post (updated)

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Advice from biotech: Attract the investors, secure the patents, stay focused

Advice on commercialising research from biotech start-ups and entrepreneurs at the Biocenter, University of Copenhagen

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44 more health scientists accused of dishonesty

A whole new batch of researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, have been reported to the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (UVVU) for research misconduct

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Photo gallery: See this wolf getting dissected

Wolf put under the knife at the Zoological Museum. Warning: These pictures are not for the squeamish

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See pictures of new Minister Sofie and Princess Mary at elite researcher awards

Our photographer Emma Flokstra Nielsson was there when Crown Princess Mary and the new Minister for Higher Education and Science awarded this year’s Eliteforsk research award

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