Research news
Below is a selection of the latest news from the research at the University of Copenhagen. You can find all news from the University on the main news site.
-
2019.04.24
The EU’s policy on GMO is extremely strict and prevents new GMO crops from being authorized. The policy is based on arguments about the risk and unnaturalness of GMO plants – but these arguments cannot justify the
… »
-
2019.02.06
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have spent the last five years identifying and analysing more than 2,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Horn of Africa in order to map and preserve the rich, but largely
… »
-
2019.01.15
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.
… »
-
2019.01.08
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.
… »
-
2019.01.07
Your lifestyle is formed to a great extent by the health and disease among your relatives, and this is important knowledge in the economic research, states the English-speaking business-news media Quartz.
… »
-
2018.12.06
New research shows that wage transparancy reduces gender pay gap by 7%.
… »
-
2018.11.14
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
… »
-
2018.10.30
New research results challenge previous findings of huge differences in life expectancy between the rich and those at the bottom of the income scale.
… »
-
2018.10.29
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
… »
-
2018.09.26
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
… »
-
2018.09.24
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
… »
-
2018.09.03
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
… »
2019.04.24
2019.02.06
2019.01.15
2019.01.08
2019.01.07
2018.12.06
2018.11.14
2018.10.30
2018.10.29
2018.09.26
2018.09.24
2018.09.03