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Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a study covering all countries from 1820 to 2010 shows that the spread of military technologies inhibits…

In a new breakthrough, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum, have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum…

Economists from the University of Copenhagen have developed green models to calculate environmental and climate effects in Denmark's entire economy. The models can have a major impact on our view of economic growth and green…

Marina Abramović is awarded the Sonning Prize for her lifelong contribution to performance art. The award is accompanied by DKK 1 million.For five decades, she has produced groundbreaking and transcendent works revolving around herself.…

It has become common knowledge that meat consumption is among the greatest climate challenges –and that reducing this consumption is a key to lowering greenhouse gas emissions. If only there was a healthy food that could replace meat…

Every year, air pollution is responsible for 4,200 Danes dying prematurely and is linked by the WHO to diabetes, cancer and heart disease. In Copenhagen, air pollution is measured by a number of measuring stations on rooftops around the…

There is growing concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in democratic elections. The most famous example of such interference occurred during the 2016 US presidential election.Previous research and government…

That’s what programme manager Nikoline Borgermann says when she introduces researchers and laboratory technicians to LEAF (Lab Efficiency Assessment Framework) – a new certification programme that will result in more sustainable…

Frozen pizza, ready-made meals and take-out. Ready-made and quick meals entered Danish households a while back and opportunities to have food delivered to the doorstep grow and grow. Danes are not exempt from a global megatrend whereby…

Yeast cells are simple organisms. They do two things in life: eat and propagate. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences have equipped common baker’s yeast cells with a new…