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16/08-10 kl. 11:32 Culture / Science

Muslim PhD student works harder during Ramadan

For PhD student Muchammad Al Azhar, the month of Ramadan fasting means a working day that starts at 7am, and no interruptions from coffee breaks

See also:: Closer to Allah in Copenhagen

29/07-10 kl. 12:05 Research / Science

Ice sheet drilling hits bedrock

After five years of drilling, the NEEM ice-core project has reached the bottom of Greenlands inland ice

17/07-10 kl. 06:00 Campus / Science

The coolest algorithm ever

When asked about his favourite programmer, the head of the Department of Computer Science went all MTV, and talked about his favourite algorithm instead.It is called Quicksort and has its own music video

07/07-10 kl. 06:00

New science park

The new Niels Bohr Science Park will be finished in 2014-2015 corresponding to the centennial of two seminal articles of physicist Niels Bohr, introducing the Nuclear Age.

Five subject areas will have their address there: physics, chemistry, computer science, science education and mathematics, a total of 3-4.000 students and 800 researchers, PhD students and a large administration.

The winning design is from Christensen and co. / Vilhelm Lauritzen, with Rambøll DK as lead advisor. The pictures are from Christensen and co.

07/07-10 kl. 06:00 Campus / Science

New futuristic science structure unveiled

New giant science edifice on both sides of the Jagtvej throughfare will have 45,000 square metres of space and a DKK 1.25 billion price tag

05/07-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Tibetans have genes for high mountains

Copenhagen biologist helps find gene for high altitude survival. The Tibetans have evolved the gene in record time

02/07-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Computer scientists on Google shortlist

Copenhagen scholars went to Zürich for female computer scientist prize

21/06-10 kl. 10:20 Research / Science

Protein factories and bacteria wars

The University Post met Nobel prize chemist Ada Yonath in Copenhagen to explain life’s fundamentals

14/06-10 kl. 06:00 Politics / Science

Head of Studies plays ´Der Führer´ in comedy

Department of Computer Sciences is a wartime Berlin headquarters in a new video, with the Head of Studies in a starring role as a dictator screaming: »It was an order!«

See also:: Computer scientists shoved around the campus

08/06-10 kl. 06:00 Politics / Science

Computer scientists shoved around the campus

A series of splits, new addresses, and planned moves threatens to isolate Copenhagen’s computer science staff and students

See also:: Head of Studies plays ´Der Führer´ in comedy

22/05-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Climate played a key role in mass extinctions

Scientists, including researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have discovered that climate change was an important factor in the mass extinction of mammals 50,000 years ago

19/04-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Atomic tool can measure brain activity

Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have made an atomic instrument so sensitive it can be used to measure electrical activity in the human brain and heart

17/04-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Sea levels to rise faster, new studies show

Previous predictions of climate-induced sea change were too low

15/04-10 kl. 06:00 Education / Science

Space Centre opens with talk of Mars mission

Countdown at the space centre, as director would have liked to send us out into orbit

12/04-10 kl. 06:24 Research / Science

Chemists clean up the office smell

Danish offices, auditoriums and libraries can be stuffy. Matthew Johnson, lecturer in chemistry at the Faculty of Science, can clean the air 100,000 times faster than the atmosphere cleans itself outside. He's that good

08/04-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Warming releases laughing gas into atmosphere

Thawing permafrost releases nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, according to Danish and Norwegian study. This may contribute to climate change

19/08-10 kl. 06:00 Campus / Life Science / Science / Health Science

Teams pull up their socks for DHL relay dash

Physicists and life scientists are fired up after their controversial showdown in 2009. But other teams will not let them just run away with it. Read the University Post guide to the fastest university teams this year