News archive 2018

• 19.12.2018

  Students arranged business start-up at New Year's party

  By the second semester of his Computer Science degree programme, Jonatan Møller Gøttcke had already spoken to one of his fellow students about starting up his own business.

• 17.12.2018

  New, rapid and robust method for single cell profiling

  Hope for better understanding of the inner works of cancer and other serious diseases.

• 19.11.2018

  Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

  Long-term experiment reveals disruption of the pelagic food web under high CO2 conditions

• 07.11.2018

  Harbour porpoises have a new enemy: They grey seal

  Biologists have long suspected this, but now there is DNA evidence: Grey seals hunt, kill and eat harbor porpoises.

• 01.11.2018

  Nine ”new” endocrine disrupting chemicals identified

  Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Southern Denmark have established that there is solid scientific evidence that nine ”new” chemical substances are endocrine disruptors.

• 29.10.2018

  Top 5 most efficient ecosystems for carbon storage

  Where on Earth can we store carbon?

• 13.09.2018

  Patients should have more control of their own data

  Computer scientists want to improve patient data safety

• 06.09.2018

  New study on obesity: We inherit the dangerous fat from Dad - and the good fat from Mom

  Brown fat cells burn off a lot of calories, whereas an excess of white fat cells make us overweight and ill. Now researchers have identified a new gene in brown fat cells; a gene that may be crucial for the future's treatment of obesity.

• 17.08.2018

  Nanoparticles in the environment can be more hamful than we think

  Researchers warn that a combination of nanoparticles and contaminants may form a cocktail that is harmful to our cells. In their study, 72 pct. of cells died after exposure to a cocktail of nano-silver and cadmium ions.

• 14.08.2018

  Congratulations to the first graduates of Computational Biomedicine

  Five Danes, two Poles and one Greek are the first graduates who can call themselves Master of Science in Computational Biomedicine from SDU. Several of them already have jobs.

• 14.08.2018

  Supercomputers give impact to research

  More and more researchers are publishing research articles using computing power from a supercomputer. This often results in great international impact, a study shows.

• 10.08.2018

  Signs of life in gemstones

  Microbes bore through hard crystal.

• 18.06.2018

  What have electrons ever done for you?

  It is best for you when they jump

• 03.05.2018

  Odd microbial partnerships

  Human activities have contributed to global warming subsequently leading to increasing erosion of land. This results in conductive particles being washed increasingly into water streams. This inflow can enable unusual electric partnerships between microbes leading to additional emissions of methane.

• 26.04.2018

  New study: What happens when sea levels rise and coastal land gets flooded?

  Don’t just expect a disaster: Coastal land has a strong potential to develop into well-functional marine ecosystems, if it gets flooded with seawater.

• 09.04.2018

  Scientists return from the deep Atacama Trench

  Uncovering the secrets of the deep-sea ecosystem

• 02.03.2018

  Bubbles of life from the past

  Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

• 28.02.2018

  Scientists to explore the depths of the Atacama Trench

  The aim of the expedition is to explore life at 8,000 m water depth and to understand the importance of the trench for regional carbon and nitrogen cycling.

• 14.02.2018

  Recycling phosphorous: More food for an increasing world population

  The world is running out of phosphorus and is thus facing a potential famine. It is therefore important to recycle as much phosphorus as possible, and this can now be done more effectively.

• 09.02.2018

  Here is the perfect spot for a birds’ inner compass

  Migratory birds use a magnetic compass in their eye for navigation. Its basic sensory mechanisms have long remained elusive, but now researchers reveal exactly where in the eye, the birds’ control center for navigation is situated.

• 24.01.2018

  Pharmacists to bring personalized medicine into daily lives of patients

  Personalized medicine is becoming more and more widespread. Pharmacists are meeting the challenge by developing and producing personalized medicine for patients. This requires significantly different products than are available today, according to a new Nordic research network that has received a grant of DKK 38.2 million.

• 24.01.2018

  New collaboration puts drones and robots on the timetable at high school

  11 January was a big day for pupils at Mulernes Legatskole. On that day LSUL, the Faculty of Science, the Drone Centre at the Faculty of Engineering, the University Library of Southern Denmark and Mulernes Legatskole signed an agreement to focus on drones and robots in the Odense high school's new study line in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

• 18.01.2018

  Novel hypothesis on why animals diversified on Earth

  Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key.