Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you—with nearly 90 percent accuracy. Several studies have shown that cheating on assignments is widespread and becoming increasingly prevalent among high school students. At the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer […]
Nanocomponent Is a Quantum Leap For Danish Physicists
University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a nanocomponent that emits light particles carrying quantum information. Less than one-tenth the width of a human hair, the miniscule component makes it possible to scale up and could ultimately reach the capabilities required for a quantum computer or quantum internet. The research result puts Denmark at the head […]
In VR Boys Learn Best When the Teacher Is a Drone — Girls Learn Better From Virtual Marie
Few years from now, students in schools all over the world will receive part of their education in virtual learning environments. Wearing VR-goggles the students will be able to enter 3-dimentional, simulated places and situations that they would normally not have access to because it would be too expensive, too dangerous or physically impossible. Teaching […]
Free Tool Predicts If the Next Downpour Will Flood Your Basement
A free digital tool allows users to identify drainage patterns from deluges and identify highly vulnerable areas. The tool has been developed by a University of Copenhagen geographer with a flooded basement tale of his own. Cloudbursts will become ever more frequent events in Denmark’s future, and every monster rain will also spawn monstrous repair […]
3D Bioprinting of Living Structures with Built-In Chemical Sensors
An international team of researchers led by Professor Michael Kühl at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen has just published a breakthrough in 3D bioprinting. Together with German colleagues at the Technical University of Dresden (Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research), Professor Kühl’s group implemented oxygen sensitive nanoparticles into a gel […]
Researchers Use Sunlight to Produce Chemicals and Energy
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a natural process they describe as “reverse photosynthesis,” by which the energy in solar rays breaks down plant biomass rather than building it, as is the case with photosynthesis. The sunlight is collected by chlorophyll, the same molecule used in photosynthesis. Combined with a specific enzyme, the […]
A Molecular Chip Breakthrough
Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster, and more green and sustainable electronic devices. Now for the first time, a transistor made from just one molecular monolayer has been made to work where it really counts. On a computer chip. The molecular integrated circuit was […]