Globe Institute – University of Copenhagen

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Mapping the Moon

The world’s oldest RNA extracted from woolly mammoth

Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history

New DNA Evidence Reveals How Early European Farmers Shaped Forest Ecosystems

DNA from marine sediments reveals millennia of marine mammal occurrences in the Arctic

The Vikings were part of a global network trading in ivory from Greenland

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Past intensive whaling threatens the future of bowhead whales

Commercial whaling has left the bowhead whale vulnerable for many generations to come.

Danish-led space mission to map the lunar surface

The University of Copenhagen will lead Denmark’s first lunar mission. The mission aims to map the…

Your Christmas decorations may be hiding a tiny bit of badger and toad

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that moss acts as a natural trap for…

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30 Mar. 2026, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence: Sofia Amanda de Lellis Stroustrup

Evolutionary Modelling of Shape Data

8 Apr. 2026, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence: Yan Kin Lee

Integrating paleogenomics and archaeology - Spatiotemporal approaches to studying the human past

10 Apr. 2026, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence: Claudia Danti

The origin of diversity in exoplanetary systems

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