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Academics are left-wing for a reason, study shows

Professors tend to be political left-wingers, but why? A US study sheds some light on the issue

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New plant centre to sprout up on LIFE campus

Faculty invests DKK 200m in plant facility to research biofuels, food production, and medicine

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Shy athletes can’t pee in a jar

Athletes suffer from ‘stage fright’ when facing urine doping tests, say University of Copenhagen researchers. An exaggeration, says anti-doping agency

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Researchers dispute breast screening study

New study shows that breast cancer screening has no effect on mortality rates. University of Copenhagen researchers disagree, calling the data 'polluted'

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Dean: Courageous and visionary Novo gift

Dean says Novo Nordisk Foundation’s new lifestyle centre will be and integrated part of Faculty of Health Sciences

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Copenhagen gets DKK 885m donation for diabetes

The University of Copenhagen has landed a huge financial donation from the Danish health and pharmaceutical fund, the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The money is earmarked for research into metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity

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Scientists spot newborn black holes

A pair of primordial black holes, formed soon after the Big Bang, have been discovered by an international team of researchers which includes a University of Copenhagen astrophysicist

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Breast milk flavours prepare baby for solids

University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered another reason why breast milk is best

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Ancient Egyptians interpreted through lions and crocodiles

Ancient Egyptian zoology seen in priestly inscriptions

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Film courses after dead Greenlander media success

Ancient man’s gene sequence got massive coverage. Now Faculty of Science offers its researchers a one-hour film crash course

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