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Names

2024.06.20

New head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Science

Professor Morten Petersen has been appointed new head of the Department of Plant and Environmental…

Plastic

2024.06.18

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fibre from sugarbeet waste sees the…

Artificial Intelligence

2024.06.12

AI method reveals millions of dead trees hidden among the living before California’s historic 2020 wildfires

University of Copenhagen scientists may have found a new explanation for the California wildfires o…

artificial intelligence

2024.06.06

Popular chatbot is a politically left-leaning EU supporter

sustainability

2024.06.03

Avocados are 'bad' and vegans are ridiculous: How we justify eating too much meat

Those of us who find it difficult to eat less meat for the sake of climate tend to apologize or…

fødevarer

2024.06.03

Greenhouses cover more and more of Earth’s surface

Greenhouse cultivation is booming globally, especially in the Global South – and across one country…

Ice sheet

2024.05.30

Local bright spot among melting glaciers: 2000 km of Antarctic ice-covered coastline has been stable for 85 years

A whaler's forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers at the University of Copenhagen…

The universe

2024.05.23

Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to…

Proteins

2024.05.22

New weapon against dementia: "In just minutes, the AI solves a challenge that would take neuroscientists weeks."

The clumping of proteins is at the root of a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders that affect…

Astrophysics

2024.05.21

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars…

Faculty of Science

New head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Science

Researchers invent one hundred percent biodegradable "barley plastic"

AI method reveals millions of dead trees hidden among the living before California’s historic 2020 wildfires

Popular chatbot is a politically left-leaning EU supporter

Avocados are 'bad' and vegans are ridiculous: How we justify eating too much meat

Greenhouses cover more and more of Earth’s surface

Local bright spot among melting glaciers: 2000 km of Antarctic ice-covered coastline has been stable for 85 years

Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

New weapon against dementia: "In just minutes, the AI solves a challenge that would take neuroscientists weeks."

Complete Stellar Collapse: unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly