Two Genes Crucial for Plants Colonizing the Earth 470 Million Ago Have Been Identified
Researchers shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of the Earth Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shed new…
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New “Game Changing” Method Exposes Cancer Vulnerabilities
How do some patients develop resistance to cancer treatment? The new method known as “Deep Visual Proteomics” may be able to help doctors get closer…
New Type of Extremely Reactive Substance Discovered in the Atmosphere
For the first time, an entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been found under atmospheric conditions. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen, in…
New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life
Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars….
Breaking News From the Dawn of the Universe: The Ancestor of a Supermassive Black Hole
An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark, have identified a distant object…
Astronomers Spot the Most Distant Single Star Ever Seen Using a Cosmic Telescope Predicted by Einstein
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears. With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of…
Revolutionary DNA Nanotechnology Speeds Up Development of Vaccines by More Than One Million Times
Revolutionary tool will meet future pandemics with accelerated response. A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one…
Octopus-Like Tentacles Help Cancer Cells Invade the Body – New Insight on a Fundamental Mechanism in All Living Cells
With help from the best tweezers in the world a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has shed new light on a fundamental…
Quake-Ception – Groundbreaking Earthquake Discovery: Risk Models Overlook an Important Element
Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of…
Ancient Ice Reveals Scores of Gigantic Volcanic Eruptions – Causing Tsunamis, Drought, Famine, and Death
Ice cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption…
Massive Asteroid Impact Crater in Greenland Occurred a Few Million Years After Dinosaurs Went Extinct
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating…
Chaotic Triple Drama: Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies
Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to…
Scientists Can Now Decode Pigs’ Emotions From the Sound of Their Grunts
Pig Grunts Reveal Their Emotions We can now decode pigs’ emotions. Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births…
Researchers Find the Secret Behind Maintaining Healthy Weight Loss
Half of the Danish population are overweight, while 17 percent live with obesity. Worldwide, almost 40 percent are overweight and 13 percent live with obesity….
Earth’s Most Important Biochemical Reaction: Photosynthesis Breakthrough for Increasing CO2 Uptake in Plants
A group of proteins in plant cells plays a vastly more important role in regulation of photosynthesis than once thought, according to new research at…
Can the Sun’s 11-Year Cycle Explain Global Warming?
An analysis of observational data and a large climate model finds Earth’s 11-year cycle is out of sync with solar fluctuations. The Earth’s global climate…
Innovative Chip Resolves Quantum Headache – Paves Road to Supercomputer of the Future
Quantum physicists at the University of Copenhagen are reporting an international achievement for Denmark in the field of quantum technology. By simultaneously operating multiple spin…
New COVID-19 Biomarker Discovery – Can Predict Patient Death or Hospitalization
In a new study, researchers from University of Copenhagen show that the phenomenon cell fitness could predict the host immune response to a COVID-19-infection. The…
