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Battle of the brainiacs 2011

Serious brainpower and mountains of cool cash may not always go hand in hand, but if you are clever enough to sign up for this year’s 15 minutes of Brain contest that might be just what you end up having.

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Danes eat their own words

Danish is hard enough to learn, but even harder to understand. PhD student in phonetics at Copenhagen Business School, Ruben Schachtenhaufen explains why Danish sounds like gibberish

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Klarlund Pedersen reported for fraud

Health scientist and co-writer of Milena Penkowa articles in new fraud accusations, write media

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Prestigious grants awarded to 16 researchers

Sixteen University of Copenhagen researchers awarded with Sapere Aude grants to improve their research

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Obesity scientists meet to court EU funds

Danish obesity experts met last week at the University of Copenhagen to discuss how to get a hold of EU’s future research investments

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Moon younger than previously thought

An old friend has just become 100 million years younger. Our closest neighbour in the Solar System, the Moon is now only 4.36 billion years old, Copenhagen scientists reckon

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Scientists: 10-20-30 series of intervals is the most effective training

Sports science proves that super-fast running is best

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University of Copenhagen's running Google professor

Machine learning is the secret ingredient behind many web-based services and applications that we use every day. Corinna Cortes, Copenhagen professor, head of Google's New York research centre and developer of one of the main algorithms in the field, talks to the University Post about her work, her time, and her running

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Work in one country, PhD in another

EU gets new Danish scheme for cross-border industry PhDs

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Laser physics to detect explosives, brain impulses

In quantum mechanics, when you measure something you change it. Researchers at the Quantop Center have found a way to circumvent this fundamental limit

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