University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen is home to some of the world's brilliant minds within algorithmics. Since the BARC research centre was established in 2017 with an initial grant of DKK 40 million from the VILLUM foundation, the centre's renowned researchers…

Unlike what many people may think, anorexia nervosa is not simply about wanting to be thin. In fact, it is a complex mental disorder that changes the way the brain regulates appetite and body image.In individuals with anorexia nervosa,…

Millions of years ago, a unique bacterium found its way to the surface of a root vegetable – perhaps somewhere in Central or South America. It catalyzed a kind of outgrowth of long roots. One day, one of the roots sprouted and developed…

Yellow flower carpeted fields are a sure sign of summer. In Denmark, more than 200,000 hectares of rapeseed are now cultivated for use as edible and industrial oils, and as a protein supplement for animal feed – but not as a direct food…

Memory plays a crucial role in people's social and working lives. Now, new research shows that verbal (i.e. linguistic) memory also determines whether psychiatric patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder or depression are at risk being…

Together with Aarhus University and a range of companies, researchers from the University of Copenhagen will develop the sustainable co-production of fish, shrimp and seaweed.Over the next four years, they will work to further develop a…

"Imagine one of those spectacular opening ceremonies at the Olympics, where a huge crowd suddenly gathers as a unit and synchronizes its movements like a flock of starlings. In a few very special and strange cases, the same occurs in the…

Making the best of a wide intellectual scopeWith six faculties, 36 institutes and more than 200 research centres, University of Copenhagen has a reach that is broad and deep. From theology to quantum science and from molecular biomedicine…

Denmark needs to invest heavily in the expansion of renewable energy systems and establishment of so-called Power-to-X plants converting renewable electricity into transportable, storable forms of energy such as hydrogen, ammonia and…

Recent research has hypothesised that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously…