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Pandas can´t taste meat

Pandas eat bamboo because they can't taste high-protein foods. And they are not inbred. This is according to a new study which has catalogued the endangered bear's genome

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Modern politics is a stifling consensus

The battle between left and right has been called off, according to leftist political intellectual Chantal Mouffe, and she does not like it

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Brain doping does not work

Pills with psychoactive effects are not a short-cut to improving exam and research results. Only one, well-known drug has these properties, others might not work in your favour, says neuroscientist

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Termites have had farms for millions of years

Most of our food production is based on large-scale cultivation of single crops. We have spent ten thousand years of cultural evolution adopting this practice. Research has now shown that farming ants and termites have been at it for a good millions of years longer

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Taking the Apostle Paul seriously

From our modern perspective, Saint Paul had some strange ideas

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Obama climate adviser to Copenhagen

US scientist and environmentalist, Jane Lubchenco, is one of Barack Obama’s closest advisers. She will lecture at the University of Copenhagen Friday

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Breast cancer treatment leads to long term pain

Women still in pain two to three years after breast surgery, University of Copenhagen study shows

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Copenhagen cancer patients now do hard work outs

After recent University of Copenhagen research, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can now take part in an intensive exercise program

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Army ants can also make new friends, study shows

In times of need, a colony of army ants will assimilate itself into another colony

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Copenhagen to study ‘new’ India

Research centre will find out how emerging global powers reconcile poverty, culture and the space-age

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