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Searching for pearl grey

For centuries, painters used the term on bills and old invoices. But what colour is it?

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Germany: Every fifth student uses brain doping drugs

Pharmacology survey reveals widespread caffeine, ritalin and amphetamine use

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French life scientist with a snake poison project

A University of Copenhagen research assistant and his DTU colleagues are working a business idea on the side: Safer, cheaper treatment for snake bites

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Archaeologist ´digs´can be made into dishes

Reconstructing old recipes is not just good research, says archaeologist. It is good cooking

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Do-it-yourself biology at the Medical Museion

Biotechnology can take place in high tech labs. But - as an exhibition at the Medical Museion shows - it can also take place in a more open, homely, environment

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Five biological experiments you can do at home

Don't worry, we are not asking you to make anthrax, or some new strain of the ebola virus. Just to extract your own DNA, and to stun your friends with crazy stuff like cultivating your own bacteria

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New book: Danes are not racists

Danes are said to be xenophobic and racist. But the claim that Danes are actually, particularly, racist is not supported by scientific evidence, claims a Copenhagen sociologist

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Scientists at work in Panama jungle

Copenhagen scientists had to scale the trees and work from a crane in the Panama jungle. See our photo gallery

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Your definitive guide to the Mayan calendar

No need to worry, says a Maya calendar expert, who freely offers University Post readers what they need to know before the long count ‘ends’ on 21 December

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Mystery of Vikings on Greenland uncovered

New research suggests that the tribe of Vikings on Greenland didn't just die out, or succumb to invading Inuits. They may have just got bored of living there and moved on

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