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Danish brain study locates 'Christmas Spirit'
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Danish brain study locates 'Christmas Spirit'

Danish researchers have identified the parts the brain which light up when subjects see images associated with Christmas, as part of a project to help the millions who suffer "a Christmas spirit deficiency – or the ‘bah humbug’ syndrome".
Ten things to know about Denmark's Lene Hau
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Ten things to know about Denmark's Lene Hau

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.
Charles Darwin discovery unearthed in Copenhagen
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Charles Darwin discovery unearthed in Copenhagen

As a thank you to his Danish colleague, Charles Darwin sent 77 personally identified crustacean species to the Zoological Museum. At the time, they were merely filed away but today – 160 years later – they represent one of the biggest Darwin collections in the world.