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Pioneer and portal figure are two attributes often used too lightly. Sometimes it's all the more difficult to avoid them. In 2001, Mats Karlsson wa...

This year it is 60 years since Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash in what is now Zambia – at the time, it was called Northern Rhodesia. When he...

With the launch of national resource Spatial Omics, SciLifeLab consolidates Sweden's advanced position in one of the hottest fields of science. "Th...

Men’s sleep may be more powerfully influenced by the lunar cycle than women’s, according to a new study from Uppsala University, now published in t...

OligoNova is a new technology platform for the development of oligonucleotide therapeutics, by many seen as a cornerstone in tomorrow's treatments....

Uppsala University archaeology students’ summer excavations on the island of Gotland turned up an exciting surprise: they found a warrior, with swo...

COLUMN. “It is often those who are socially or economically marginalised that are more vulnerable and experience the biggest impacts,” writes Gabri...

For Jacob Höglund, Professor of Animal Conservation Biology, there is no issue more important than the extinction of species and the fact that we a...

Hello there Alexander Rozental, senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology and author of the self-help book for perfectionists, Bättre än perf...

Are you curious about Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard or the chief architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, Christiana Figu...

Hjärnäpplet is awarded by Uppsala University for outstanding transference of knowledge. This year’s prize goes to Professors Rolf Larsson and Peter...

How the cell can mend broken DNA using another DNA copy as template has puzzled researchers for years. How is it possible to find the correct seque...

For Jenny Larsson, Uppsala University’s Alumnus of the Year 2021, interest in the environment arose early in life. As Managing Director of Hitachi ...

Interest in studies and effort are important for pupils in achieving high grades, but high grades also require lots of work at home and extensive p...

An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of t...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study sys...

SCIFI-PEARL may provide researchers with access to registry data for each person diagnosed with covid-19 in Sweden as well as a comprehensive compa...

How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emissions in European cities. If we are to achieve our ...

Andrea Benediktsdottir, PhD student at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, is awarded the Iris Scholarship for aspiring women in Sweden. With th...

The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relatives, the Denisovans, a new study led by Uppsal...