The Danish parliament has recently adopted a controversial text asking universities to ensure that "politics is not disguised as science". The Local's contributor Sophie Standen examines why Denmark's politicians are criticising university researchers.
US and Danish researchers said Thursday they have developed an inexpensive blood test that may predict with up to 80 percent accuracy whether a pregnant woman will give birth prematurely.
People who grew up without green spaces are 50 per cent more likely to develop schizophrenia compared with those who grew up surrounded by greenery, according to a new Danish study, which is the first to find such a correlation.
Ninety-five new exoplanets - planets that orbit around stars other than our sun - can now be added to the long list of planets that have been discovered since the 1990s.
Cats may keep mice away, but they can also help prevent asthma in newborn babies, a new study by scientists from the Copenhagen Studies on Asthma in Childhood Research Center (COPSAC) has concluded.
Global scientists on Wednesday unveiled the first blueprint for a massive quantum computer that could be as large as a football pitch and offers hope of solving the world's most vexing problems.
At the University of Copenhagen, scientists have developed an experimental project called Protein2Food with the mission to replace meat with protein-rich crops.
Danish physicist Lene Hau missed out on the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday but she is behind something that Albert Einstein thought was impossible: stopping light. Here are ten things you need to know about her.
Chemicals in everyday products like food packaging and rain jackets can increase a woman’s risk of miscarriage by up to 16 times, a new Danish study warns.
If you are planning an expedition to the Arctic or are just interested in the area, you may want to check out new website ‘Isaaffik Arctic Gateway,' which is being launched in Copenhagen on Wednesday to facilitate research in the wake of climate change.
The state-funded Danish Council for Independent Research has earmarked 2.5 million kroner to a PhD project that will look into the 'under-earthlings' rumoured to inhabit the island of Bornholm
It's been long thought that Denmark is the home to four Viking ring fortresses, but the first discovery in 60 years may shed new light on the Viking Era and King Harald Bluetooth.
A study from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the Smithsonian finds that ancient eskimos are not related to modern Native Americans or the Inuit of Greenland.
A reproduction expert at the University of Copenhagen is close to proving that vitamin D deficiency can cause infertility in men. The discovery could soon lead to a first-of-its-kind fertility test.
New discoveries at a Danish excavation site reveal that prevailing warriors desecrated and assembled their opponents remains in what appears to have been a religious ritual.
