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Best of University Post 2009-2016

Science

Insects: The food of the future

Bugs reduce pollution, increase nutrition, and should seriously be considered as a food source: This is according to a UN report with University of Copenhagen contribitions

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Campus

Scientists frustrated by Danish e-mails and meetings

Defying university policy, e-mails, newsletters, invitations and meetings are still just in Danish, discriminating against a large minority of scientists and staff

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Science

Student lived with whales, polar bears

Biology student from University of Copenhagen talks to the University Post about his project and adventures doing fieldwork in western Greenland

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Science

World breakthrough for LEGO Atlas detector

The large model in LEGO of the Atlas detector from the laws-of-physics-busting Large Hadron Collider is now to go on a world tour, says the model’s creator, Sascha Mehlhase. 23,000 people have seen it on UniversityPost.dk

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Education

Copenhagen vet students operate on teddy bears

Stuffed animals are operated on by veterinary students at the University of Copenhagen for practice. Juice and cake inside make it more realistic, explains student, who says it helps conquer fears

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Science

Large Hadron Collider machine entirely in Lego

Will it find the Higgs particle? Copenhagen physicist has built a model of CERN's atom smasher detector in toy bricks

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Science

New stories from old bones

Skeletons dug up from the ruins of the Æbelholt monastery show us medieval violence, sickness, and life

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Politics

Penkowa for dummies

As university drama, the case of brain scientist Milena Penkowa is better than fiction. New fans can start here

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Science

At DARK, a new work routine comes to light

Reporting from the Dark Cosmology Centre, I got caught up in innovative meeting platform ArXiv

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Science

Fairy tale is bigger than the Bible

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ‘The Little Match Girl’ more read than works like the Bible and the Qu'ran

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