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Star discovered 28 billion light-years away
05 april 2022
As part of an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in resolving what appears to be an individual star whos...
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Integrating AI into university courses and programmes
04 april 2022
Expertise in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is in high demand and has broadened to take in more professions. The new national WASP-ED pr...
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12 million Ukrainians expected to flee to the EU
30 mars 2022
Some 12 million Ukrainian refugees are expected to come to the EU. It's anticipated that more than one in three of them will want to travel to Germ...
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The threat of nuclear weapons creates a completely new situation
30 mars 2022
When Putin threatened use of nuclear weapons, the world saw the emergence of a new security situation. “Deployment of nuclear weapons is now seen a...
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New means of protecting Ukraine’s refugees
30 mars 2022
“The biggest refugee situation since the Second World War.” This is how international law scholar Rebecca Thorburn Stern describes the situation pr...
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Waste as a resource
29 mars 2022
Waste and refuse are no longer just rubbish, but have become an important resource. Today, even a banana peel can be transformed into fuel in the f...
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New study programme integrates international law and business
29 mars 2022
Autumn 2022 will see the start of a completely new one-year Master’s programme in which international and European commercial law are integrated wi...
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Eliminating the bottlenecks for use of lithium-sulfur batteries
28 mars 2022
Energy storage in lithium-sulfur batteries is potentially higher than in lithium-ion batteries but they are hampered by a short life. Researchers ...
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The perils of procrastination
25 mars 2022
COLUMN. Putting off what needs to be done, against our own better judgement, is surely a habit we can all identify with. For some individuals, howe...
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Transforming space and society in Kiruna
24 mars 2022
State and corporate ideas about nature, people and the future played a decisive role in the development of Kiruna as a mining town over a century a...
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Powerful voice for democracy and academic freedom
24 mars 2022
Today, academic freedom and democracy are under threat around the world, including nearby European countries. And Uppsala University has a key part...
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Research puts war in Ukraine in perspective
23 mars 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raises many questions – about the impact on the security situation in Europe and the world, about the backdrop to the ...
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Insects in the Fyris river carried 33 different pharmaceutical substances
18 mars 2022
In a study of insects in the Fyris river, researchers identified traces of 33 different pharmaceutical substances. "In combination, these substance...
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ERC grants to three Uppsala researchers
18 mars 2022
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded 313 new ERC Consolidator Grants for projects in 24 different countries. Among the winners are two r...
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“There are many, many steps from a nuclear reactor to a nuclear weapon”
17 mars 2022
Hi there… Sophie Grape, senior lecturer in applied nuclear physics, group leader in Technical Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Safeguards, and work pa...
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Ulrika Simonsson: Building mathematical bridges from drug labs to treatment
15 mars 2022
Not even frontline pharmacists have a full overview of the long and winding road from new substance to finished pill. If the medicine is also to ac...
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Successful collaboration delivers results
15 mars 2022
With different roles and expertise, they work towards the same overall goal – to contribute to Uppsala University’s efforts to take research forwar...
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Ukrainian researchers get help from Scholars at Risk
15 mars 2022
Anna Jonsson Cornell, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, is currently working intensively with the organisation Sch...
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To salt or not to salt icy roads?
09 mars 2022
Salt is used to de-ice roads to make them safer to drive on, but what are the negative impacts beyond rusting cars and angry letters to the editor?...
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Online source evaluation important in wartime
07 mars 2022
Hello there Thomas Nygren, member of the EU’s expert group on fake news and online disinformation and professor at the Department of Education. Wha...