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Nobel physicist David Gross in Christiania

David Gross, string physicist, entertained a cocktail-sipping crowd about string theory and particle physics at the 'Freetown'

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'Lego physicist' wants his ATLAS detector in the shops

ATLAS — the particle detector from CERN — has been shrunk down to 560 Lego pieces by a University of Copenhagen physicist. Now it could be on the way to a toy shop near you

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Today: Workshop on climate change response policies

Society's 'response' to climate change is just as important as the science. A workshop series at the department of Political Science looks beyond hard science to the community, and to social adjustments

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Diving into the fountain of youth

A health scientist explains why ageing may no longer be Nature's law

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Crowdsourced campaign against disease

Non-communicable diseases have killed 102 people in the last 60 seconds, yet most remain unaware of the danger. A Copenhagen health scientist and designer team plan to change that

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New app for history buffs

Are you obsessed with history? Or do you just have a passing interest in the past? No matter what, the iPad/iPhone app HistoryWise, by two ex-University of Copenhagen scholars, should pique your interest

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The depths of space from the driest place on Earth

Reporting from a high altitude observatory in Chile

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Nature's counter-measures

Wild species such as European birds can teach us a lesson that we can apply to food production and medicine. One of them is that any human practice can lead to a biological counter response. Our latest Lab & Library feature is from biologist Peter Søgaard Jørgensen

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In the future, will robots fight wars?

By getting robots to dream, they can become even better soccer players than humans. Or sci-fi killer machines

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Niels Bohr's atom model turns 100

In his model, electrons orbitted the nucleus like planets around the sun. This year is the centennial of Niels Bohr’s paper

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