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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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Hard for your future boss to find you

New technologies like job search engines don’t, really, make it easier for employers to find employees, explains Nobel Prize economist to the University Post, who paints a gloomy picture of our current crisis

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Cycling team reaches Northern Cape

Experiment group reaches Nordkapp after fourteen gruelling days of cycling. But it wasn’t over: A battery of tests awaited the hardy cyclists, writes experimenter Katja Kjær in her latest report

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Some PhD students hardly ever talk to supervisors

While most PhD students are in regular communication with their academic supervisors, a small minority of PhDs are in rare or no contact whatsoever

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PhDs want to stay in university

Majority of international PhD students at the University of Copenhagen want to do postdoctoral research or other academic work after finishing their PhD

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