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Scientists gravitate towards Dark

They want to work at the Dark Cosmology Centre, the numbers show

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Growing up in Outer Space

Ia from Georgia grew up in an observatory on a mountaintop, listening to star talk

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New wiki to replace textbooks

Postdoc Linda Udby is creating an interactive alternative to regular textbooks and compendiums

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No phones, no net: Fieldwork in a Borneo village

Twenty-two Copenhagen and Roskilde students are researching villages in Sarawak, Malaysia. One of them is a University Post reporter, who sends us this report and photo story from the jungle fringe on the island of Borneo

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'Nano'-drugs are bad news for diseases

Nanoparticles can get the drugs exactly to the place where they are needed. This means patients need less medicine, and get fewer side effects.

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For Chinese PhD student, it's not just a fairy tale

Inspired by a visit to the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense, PhD student Wenjie Li is in Copenhagen looking at different Chinese translations of fairy tales

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Fairy tale is bigger than the Bible

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ‘The Little Match Girl’ more read than works like the Bible and the Qu'ran

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Copenhagen facility to map Danish genome

Four universities and three companies to share DKK 86 million grant from advanced technology fund. Chinese gene sequencers to be based in Copenhagen

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Big Bang talk got a packed auditorium

Students and professors crammed in to lecture hall to find out what exactly happened before the beginning of everything. Theorist Roger Penrose did not disappoint them

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Freezing their butts off on Ringkøbing Fjord

Researchers are measuring the amount of ground water seeping into Ringkjøbing fjord on the west coast of Denmark. Normally, they need a rubber dinghy for their experiments

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