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Now it is time to nominate for the title Alumnus of the Year 2018. Take the opportunity to recognize someone who have inspired you or made a lastin...

Breaking with the long-held idea that working memory has fixed limits, a new study by researchers at Uppsala University and New York University sug...

In a study published in Behavioral Ecology researchers from Uppsala University show that the same type of sperm is not always the best for all male...

Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, ph...

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous m...

A new study by researchers at Uppsala University and INGV, Italy, published in Scientific Reports, sheds light on magma storage under the currently...

An international research team that includes researchers from Uppsala University and Stockholm University have identified a likely source for the h...

The workings of memory and learning have yet to be clarified, especially at the neural circuitry level. But researchers at Uppsala University have ...

An international team of scientists has used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how domestication has affected brain morphol...

A costly and desolate trek through social measures or a worthwhile rescue for Sweden? Olof Åslund, Professor of Economics, sees migration as a key ...

The U4 universities (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the Eur...

There is no risk of an eruption when volcano researcher Steffi Burchardt is out on a research expedition. She studies extinct volcanoes that had er...

On 1 September, Gunilla Lundmark will take office as Managing Director of Uppsala University Holding Company, where she succeeds Lars Jonsson. She ...

New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University shows that the number of fatalities in organised violence decreased for ...

The European Commission’s proposal for the ninth framework programme for research and innovation, which is part of a long-term budget 2021–2027, ha...

In a new study, researchers from Sweden and Britain have investigated how the endocrine-disrupting substance linuron affects reproduction in the We...

The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed. This vi...

Yan Shao was one of the first Chinese students to receive Anders Wall’s scholarship for a Master’s degree at Uppsala University. Back then he knew ...

The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to large-scale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where i...

H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson and Johan Svedjedal, Professor of Literature, H.M. ...

Thanks to a donation of USD 100,000, a new scholarship fund has been established for doctoral students at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. ...

Meat consumption is high in Sweden, but production nevertheless outstrips demand. In a new doctoral thesis in sociology, Jonas Bååth has studied ho...

Uppsala alumnus Irshaad Wadvalla is the first chairman of the newly founded Sweden Alumni Network in South Africa. “It’s very exciting, and we look...

Through the Swedish Electromobility Centre, Uppsala University has entered into a partnership with Vattenfall AB and CEVT (China Euro Vehicle Techn...

In an international collaboration, Uppsala researchers have successfully heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than...

Jonathan Staaf Scragg, a researcher in the field of thin film solar cells, and Gustaf Christoffersson, whose research focuses on Type 1 diabetes, w...

New astronomical mappings of hundreds of thousands of cosmic voids and galaxy clusters will make it possible to test Einstein’s theory of relativit...

Is there radioactive caesium in Swedish mushrooms? And if so, how much? A national survey of radioactivity in mushrooms called Strålande jord (“Rad...

Professor Shamus Khan of Columbia University is the second recipient of the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology. The prize sum is SEK 100,000.

Uppsala researcher and entrepreneur Evelina Vågesjö was cited by the journal Genetic Engineering News (GEN), as a future leader within the rapidly ...

Since the beginning of February, the University’s research on human evolution has been brought together in a new research programme. The aim is to ...

The 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award winners at Uppsala University teach subjects related to art history, informatics and media, pharmaceutical bi...

Hello, there Håvard Hegre, Dag Hammarskjöld Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. An initial version of the analytical tool c...

Uppsala University is back among the top 100 universities in the world as Times Higher Education publishes its 2018 World Reputation Ranking. Uppsa...

Per Ahlberg, Professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, Evolution and Developmental Biology, has been elected to the Academy of Europe, a s...

On 21 May a closing ceremony took place in the University Main Building for students in Uppsala University’s international Master’s programmes.

Building upon the success of AIMday academic–industry matchmaking events and demand from other Canadian institutions for expansion of the approach,...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new method to produce hydrogen from bacteria. They use biological ‘hydrogen factories’ that are mo...

Sweden must phase out fossil energy sources – this is the general consensus. But opinions differ on what kinds of energy production society should ...

In a new study, researchers have identified genetic material from the recently identified Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in the tick species Hyal...

In Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova’s latest call for proposals in the Innovative Startups initiative, 92 companies with innovative business idea...

Human diversity abounds in language, culture and biology. An understanding of this diversity is central to a lot of research, but it is important t...

The Ragnar Söderberg Foundation has presented this year’s approved grants in law. From a total of six researchers and projects awarded SEK 12 milli...

Kenneth Jonsson, an associate professor at Uppsala University, has been awarded a research grant of SEK 3.2 million from AFA Insurance to compare s...

The media monitoring company Meltwater has conducted a media survey of Swedish universities’ presence in social media. According to the survey, Upp...

How, where and when we eat are key issues for human health and wellbeing. A multidisciplinary research network at Uppsala University aims to deepen...

A key question in evolutionary biology is how new functions arise. New research at Uppsala University shows that bacteriophages (viruses that infec...

Can we get by on just renewable energy? Can energy from the sun, wind and water cover our electricity needs – even on a windless, overcast day in S...

One strategy for cancer therapy is to inhibit the development of blood vessels in the tumour. Researchers at Uppsala University show in a new study...

Cellular lipids are more efficient than proteins in trapping most drugs and hence reducing the free intracellular drug concentration. This is shown...