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For nearly 100 years biologists have argued about how exactly natural selection can possibly work. If nature selects the individuals with the best ...

Otherwise healthy men with advanced prostate cancer may benefit greatly from surgery, but many with this diagnosis have no need for it. These concl...

The noise level was intense at the Swedish Embassy in London when 60 Uppsala alumni, honorary doctors and guests filled the beautiful, Christmas-be...

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The annual book sale from the university’s Acta-series is now on!

On 13 December the 2018 Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics will visit Uppsala University. They will give a public lecture in the University G...

Hello there, climate researcher Keri Facer from the University of Bristol. You are Uppsala University’s third visiting Zennström Professor of Clima...

At the end of the year Olga Botner will step down as a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They wor...

With his long-standing experience with research funding and work to increase the social impact of research, Edman is now reinforcing UU Innovation’...

The majority of the world’s population live in cities, which demands new, smart solutions. The discussions were wide-ranging at the AIMday Sustaina...

Uppsala University is launching a pilot project to reduce climate impact. Next year, 50 grants will be awarded to Erasmus students who choose to ta...

Hi there, Lynn Kamerlin, Professor of Chemistry! You are going to play host to Frances Arnold, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, when she vis...

Patients strongly favour electronic access to their medical records and the possibilities that this resource offers. That is clear from a comprehen...

Researchers at Uppsala University will investigate new methods to increase the ability of young people to critique digital sources.

Hi David Sumpter, Professor of Applied Mathematics, who has written the book Outnumbered: Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives. Algorith...

This year’s Uppsala Student of the Year is studying in the Master Programme in Computer and Information Engineering, and also runs her own graphic ...

When deciding not to resuscitate patients in cardiac arrest, ethical issues arise. Nurses and physicians conflicting perspectives often cause frust...

During the Triassic period (252–201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, m...

Climate researcher Keri Facer from the University of Bristol will be Uppsala University’s third visiting Zennström Professor of Climate Change Lead...

Uppsala University Library has recently purchased a well-known portrait of Carl Linnaeus. The small pen and wash drawing was made by Jean Eric Rehn...

An aquatic parasitic fungus causes lethal infections in amphibians and is thought to be one of the reasons for a global decline in toad and frog po...

The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize is Uppsala University’s foremost award for efforts to promote human rights and liberty. This year’s prize is a...

Straddling academia and the pharmaceutical industry, Sara Mangsbo is building a platform for a future as a research scientist and serial entreprene...

Growing up with dogs is linked to a lower risk of asthma, especially if the dogs are female, a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Uni...

Fireside chat, the premiere event organized by UU Innovation on 25 October, is a new way of giving further insights into being a researcher and an ...

The Uppsala Antibiotic Center launches their newest outreach project, "The AMR Studio", with the occasion of the World Antibiotic Awareness Week.

Johanna Lindahl, senior scientist in veterinary-epidemiology, has been awarded the SIGHT Award 2018 and SEK 100,000 from the Swedish Institute for ...

In a new article published in Nature an international research team presents high-resolution images of photosystem II, the protein complex that spl...

Runic research at Uppsala University has received a donation of USD 15,000 from Swedish-American Myrna G. Smith. Part of the gift is a new contribu...

Norse World is a new database which will make it easier for researchers to study perceptions of the surrounding world in medieval Scandinavian lite...

The nine faculties at Uppsala University have decided who to designate as honorary doctors this academic year. Among the new honorary doctors are r...

Proteins govern the biology of the cell. Through random mutation the sequences of our proteins slowly change over time, usually without affecting f...

A two-year Viking exhibition with 1,300-year-old artefacts from the time leading up to the Viking Age is currently touring the United States. The a...

Uppsala University and GE Healthcare Life Sciences have signed a long-term collaboration agreement that gives university researchers the opportunit...

The rape of men is an area where there are large gaps in knowledge. Now a survey is under way of all rapes of men that have been reported in the pa...

In addition to increasing productivity, the introduction of industrial robots has increased wages for the employees. At the same time, industrial r...

How can we use the playfulness and competition of e-games to enhance healthy behavior? This is the theme of the EIT Health Innovation Game summer s...

Hello there... Fredrik Engelmark, Collaboration Manager at UU Innovation and Project Manager for Big Science Sweden at Uppsala University. What is ...

Professor Agneta Yngve, Department of food studies, nutrition and dietetics at Uppsala University, was on Thursday October 18th elected as Preses (...

The Faculty of Pharmacy is celebrating 50 years at Uppsala University, a jubilee that will culminate on 26 October when academia and industry meet ...

The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala awarded its 2018 prize for outstanding interdisciplinary research to Professor Birgitta Essén.

Three research projects in physics and natural science led from Uppsala University have received a total of SEK 69 400 000 from the Knut and Alice ...

“I believe we soon can offer the first approved drug for Alzheimer’s disease,” says Lars Lannfelt, Senior Professor of Geriatrics, whose research s...

The Alumnus of the Year distinction is being awarded this year to Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company Managing Director Sofia Wadensjö Karén. ...

Selfish genes are genes that are passed on to the next generation but confer no advantage on the individual as a whole, and may even be harmful. Fo...

In the EU project ENEFRF, researchers at the Ångström Laboratory are working on improving the radio frequency amplifiers that will make technology ...

Uppsala has been named Climate City of the Year in 2018. One important factor behind the award is the Uppsala Climate Protocol network that Uppsala...

Men's and women's ideal pictures of one another do not match. That’s the way it has been for a long time. A new thesis from Uppsala University stud...

Joseph Minahan, Professor of Theoretical Physics, and Maria Strömme, Professor of Nanotechnology, have been awarded the Björkén Prize, Uppsala Univ...

Håga, Scandinavia's most significant Bronze Age site, is relatively unknown. But in a new book, archaeologists at Uppsala University have brought t...