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An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere – a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand’s South Island. 246 million years …

Blood relations and kinship were not all-important for the way hunter-gatherer communities lived during the Stone Age in Western Europe. A new genetic study, conducted at several well-known French …

Aaron Vogan, researcher at the Department of Organismal Biology, and Sophie Sanchez, Associate Professor at the same department, have both been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants. The grants are for …

A state-of-the-art zebrafish facility was recently inaugurated at Uppsala University’s Uppsala Biomedical Centre. It houses around 80,000 zebrafish that are cared for using fully automated methods – …

The foundations of an extraordinary research career were laid at Uppsala University, from Egyptology to medicine and molecular genetics. “In one sense, I learned everything here,” comments Nobel …

He opened up a completely new field of research by sequencing the genome of our long-extinct relatives. For his scientific accomplishment, Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …

How can we find out how old an excavated object, a dinosaur skeleton or our planet is? And is it possible to get an answer as to when modern humans appeared? Archaeologists, geologists, …

Inspired by the public’s fascination with mummies, Sofia Häggman decided to write a book. In 300 pages, she covers everything from their origins to why they became a common ingredient in medicines and …

A new DNA study has nuanced the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age, but also how certain groups of people were actually isolated. The study was carried out by …

For the first time, researchers have produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos, which were observed with the IceCube telescope in the Antarctic ice. The neutrino image suggests that cosmic …