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Here from China to read ancient tablets

PhD student Xiaowen had never been abroad before. Now he is in Copenhagen to help find the meaning behind mysterious ancient Assyrian texts

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The science of kissing

We kiss. We kiss to say hello. We kiss to say goodbye. We kiss to say I love you. In this write-up, student Lubomir Polach delves into the science and culture behind the passionate embrace and the peck on the cheek

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Rye bread wins dieticians’ hearts

Life Science researchers think they know the secret to staying fit. And it was on their dinner table the whole time.

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Lab diary was about 1991 magnet accident

Superconducting magnet failed, explains physicist colleague, as more fascinating details come out about a failed experiment

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Nobel physicist Andre Geim's Copenhagen story revealed

Nineteen years after Copenhagen professor Per Hedegård met his colleague Andre Geim, the young physicist from Russia won the Nobel Prize in physics

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Former Copenhagen postdoc wins Nobel physics prize

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on graphene

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Don’t say illegal, when you say migrant

In Mexico to interview police agents and politicians about migrants, Raul is acutely aware of the power of words

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Africans were in the Americas as early as 1494

DNA analysis of human bones by Copenhagen scientists shows that Africans were on one of Columbus' expeditions

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Two heads are better than one

Our Danish sister-site Universitetsavisen has talked to a Copenhagen scientist who studies a breed of false-headed water snakes

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Internet inventor's boss was not impressed

It is hard to imagine life without the internet. But the idea didn’t take off immediately. The founder of the internet has just received the Niels Bohr gold medal in Copenhagen

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