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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...

Ahead of the annual Uppsala Health Summit, 14–15 June, the report Care for Cancer was published today, focusing on how we can pave the way for bett...

In an article in the journal Nature, an international research team reports how, using the giant ALMA and VLT telescopes, they discovered signature...

Yesterday, the South Africa Sweden University Forum (SASUF), was opened by Sweden's ambassador to Pretoria, the Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala Universi...

An ethnographic research documentary on alternative entrepreneurship in Hungary will premier on the 16th of May. We talked to researchers Annika Sk...

How can knowing more about the brain help us build tomorrow’s robots and computers, and how can it help improve treatment of brain diseases? What a...

The material graphene has many incredible properties, but to date it has been difficult to use on a large scale in industry, because it loses its u...

A new study published in Nature Communications shows that infants who are later diagnosed with autism react more strongly to sudden changes in ligh...

Eighty years after Sweden began fortifying table salt with iodine, iodine deficiency remains a threat to global public health. Iodine intake is too...

U-FOLD and Uppsala University are now taking the next step in combating dependence on medical and narcotic drugs. “The time has come for us and soc...

Several new study programmes and research initiatives are under way. The Vice-Chancellor has decided how to use the University’s increased funding....

“We either need to change our ways drastically, or a future climate disaster will do it for us.” So says climate researcher Kevin Anderson, who als...

The course Satan in the History of Ideas, new this year, is already one of Uppsala University’s most popular summer courses in terms of applicant n...

In a new study published by Nature, an international team of researchers led by Uppsala University in Sweden proposes a new evolutionary origin for...

Are you a man and do you expect to manage on your own for a while longer? Research at Uppsala University now shows that efforts to achieve a health...

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently elected new members. Two Uppsala researchers were elected as international honorary members.

Uppsala University, jointly with the Swedish Swiss Chamber of Commerce (SSCC) and the EU Human Brain Project, is issuing invitations to a meeting i...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further resistance developing, it is important...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Uppsala University present this year’s Dag Hammarskjöld lecturer: H.E. António Guterres, Secretary-General of t...

In competition with other universities, Uppsala University has won the bid to coordinate the capacity-building project LISTO (Latin American and Eu...

Mohamad Alsioufi and Abdul Rahman Khankan are former students from Uppsala University who both have a Master’s degree in Computer Science. In addit...

A treasure of pictures and historical notes from the Swedish province and island Gotland has now been made available in digital form. The historian...

Museum Gustavianum, the Uppsala University Museum, has produced an exhibition of treasures from the University’s collections that will be shown in ...

José Ramón Bárcenas Walls, a scholarship holder from Monterrey, Mexico, is in the second semester of the Master’s Programme in Molecular Medicine. ...

Nguyen Ha, a scholarship holder from Vietnam, is in the second semester of the Master’s Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies. Why did you choose...

Uppsala University’s international Master’s programmes continue their steady growth. The number of students admitted in the first selection round f...

A handful of tiny teeth have led scientists to identify the most distant ancestor of today’s kangaroos. The fossils were found in the desert heart ...

In late April, a ship will reach New York bringing the exhibition “The Vikings Begin” which will embark on a two-year tour of the US. On display wi...

It’s not only in Uppsala that ‘Valborg’, the biggest celebration of the year for Uppsala’s students, is celebrated. Uppsala University US Alumni Ch...

The Institute of Intellectual Property, Marketing and Competition Law (IMC) at the Faculty of Law is beginning a collaboration with the European Un...

Improved information before undergoing PET/CT scanning can improve patients’ experience of care, demonstrates radiology nurse Camilla Andersson in ...

Hello there, Cecilia Persson, researcher in biomaterials and biomechanics at the Division of Applied Material Science at the Ångström Laboratory an...

Thiemo Voigt, Professor of Wireless Sensor Networks at the Department of Information Technology, has been granted SEK 27 million from the Swedish F...

Every year, Vitterhetsakademien (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities) confers prizes for outstanding scholarly achievemen...

In collaboration with a number of American colleagues, researchers from Uppsala University have found an Achilles' heel for the most common form of...

Emma Tysk, a student at Uppsala University, is this year's winner of Microsoft's “IT woman of the year” award.

Anna Sarkadi, Professor of Social Medicine at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, has been granted NOK 8.6 million from the Kavlif...

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of a total of EUR 653 million in the 2017 call for ERC Advanced Grants. At Uppsala...

Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor in Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University, is awarded the 2018 Johan Skytte P...

Dynamic interactions between the nervous system, hormones and the immune system are normally on-going but in diabetes the balance is disturbed. The...

In a new study, published in Current Biology this week, a research team from Uppsala University in Sweden reports new insights into the regenerativ...

Commonly used medications for high blood pressure and high blood lipids have substantial effects on protein biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, ...

Mathematician Samuel Edwards has been awarded funding by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for a postdoctoral position at Yale University.

A study called Phys-Can has shown that group exercise sessions during cancer treatment increase patients’ strength and endurance and also provide s...

Viruses have a very limited set of genes and therefore must use the cellular machineries of their hosts for most parts of their growth. A new study...