Research news

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  2019.01.15

  11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt

  11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also have used them for hunting, a new study from the University of Copenhagen shows.  … »

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  2019.01.08

  In VR boys learn best when the teacher is a drone - girls learn better from virtual Marie

  The teacher is just as important in a virtual learning environment as in a normal classroom, but a new study shows that boys and girls differ greatly in terms of how they learn best. … »

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  2018.12.06

  Wage transparency works

  New research shows that wage transparancy reduces gender pay gap by 7%. … »

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  2018.11.14

  Massive impact crater from a kilometre-wide iron meteorite discovered in Greenland

  An international team lead by researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen have discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the … »

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  2018.10.29

  A billion euros for quantum research

  Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen are part of a high-profile European research collaboration where the EU will spend a billion euros to develop quantum technologies, which will … »

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  2018.09.26

  Psychologists define 'the dark core of personality'

  As results from a recently published German-Danish research project show, traits as egoism, machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadisme share a common ‘dark core’. So, if you have one of these tendencies, you … »

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  2018.09.24

  Doubts and dialogue may alter public perceptions of science

  Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other and the public. This … »

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  2018.09.03

  New research shows how children want their food served

  Getting children to eat their food is a challenge for many parents but new research from Future Consumer Lab at at the University of Copenhagen could help. It turns out that children have different preferences for how … »

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  2018.08.21

  11 million DKK for exploring expansions of fishers outwards from the South China Sea

  Edyta Roszko, Ph.D., has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for an innovative anthropological research project exploring transoceanic networks connecting Chinese, Vietnamese, African and … »

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  2018.08.06

  Planet at risk of heading towards irreversible “Hothouse Earth” state

  Keeping global warming to within 1.5-2°C may be more difficult than previously assessed. An international team of scientists, with the participation of Center from Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of … »

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  2018.07.16

  Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

  At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, … »

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  2018.07.13

  Astrophysicists are thrilled about finding a source from where the cosmic ‘ghost particles’ originate

  A magnificent research project located under the ice of the South Pole has found a connection between emission of the mysterious neutrinos and the active galaxies, blazars. One of the involved scientists at the … »