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Kenya and Copenhagen cooperate to save Mau forest

Climate change and poverty threaten Kenya’s most valuable water source, the Mau forest. University of Copenhagen researchers are helping to find sustainable solutions

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Genes will reveal ancient migration secrets

Recent advances in genetic science, including the genome of a Neanderthal, will help chart ancient human migration patterns, says University of Copenhagen researcher

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Taking a swing at the golf balls problem

Golf balls are lost all the time, as golfers practise from rooftops, parking lots and any level stretch of grass they can find. Copenhagen scientist is looking at the environmental problem

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PhD intro course a life raft for internationals

For international PhDs on their own in another country, an introductory course has much to offer, report shows

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Atomic tool can measure brain activity

Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have made an atomic instrument so sensitive it can be used to measure electrical activity in the human brain and heart

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Milk can help you slim down

Milk can prevent obesity, and may even help with weight-loss, according to new University of Copenhagen research

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Sea levels to rise faster, new studies show

Previous predictions of climate-induced sea change were too low

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Chemists clean up the office smell

Danish offices, auditoriums and libraries can be stuffy. Matthew Johnson, lecturer in chemistry at the Faculty of Science, can clean the air 100,000 times faster than the atmosphere cleans itself outside. He's that good

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Warming releases laughing gas into atmosphere

Thawing permafrost releases nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, according to Danish and Norwegian study. This may contribute to climate change

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Programme predicts the effects of medicine

Danish scientists have developed a computer programme which predicts how drugs are absorbed in the body

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