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SCIENCE DISSEMINATION AWARD 2022

Professor inspired by housewives and schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen professor Dennis Sandris Nielsen has been awarded SCIENCE’s Dissemination…

Why the food crisis will pass

Even though the food crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine is now causing acute problems, there is…

Octopus-like tentacles help cancer cells invade the body

With the help of the worlds best tweezers a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen…

Artificial Intelligence

The Danish Pioneer Centre for AI marks its official opening

On 28 March Denmark's new Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence marks its official opening wit…

Groundbreaking earthquake discovery: Risk models overlook an important element

Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which in turn could impact o…

Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions

Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the…

Past global photosynthesis reacted quickly to more carbon in the air

Ice cores allow climate researchers to look 800,000 years back in time: atmospheric carbon acts as…

How new bird species arise

Much of a centuries-old debate over where and how new bird species form has now been resolved.…

History of Earth

Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide asteroi…

Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs…