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Is it possible to pursue elite sports and study at the same time? We asked Uppsala students Lina Sjöberg, double mini-trampoline world champion, an...

The problem of access to safe drinking water in most parts of Bangladesh is a persistent challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Uppsala Universi...

The prize committee for the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at Uppsala University has awarded Alkistis Skalkidou, a professor at the Department ...

The Swedish Government has appointed a new Research Advisory Committee to consult on a number of issues, including drafting a new research policy b...

Long-lived mushrooms that grow in ‘fairy rings’ accumulate surprisingly few mutations over time. This finding indicates that their protection again...

In a new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely ex...

Lina Bergman, Anahita Hamidi, Henrik Isackson, Mark Richards, Gull Rukh, Xiao Tan and Johan Virhammar at Uppsala University have been honoured by t...

The philosopher Pär Segerdahl has been the editor of the Ethics Blog for seven years. He describes blogging as a way to supplement public debate wi...

Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers at Upps...

The Uppsala University Innovation Prize ‘Hjärnäpplet’ for the outstanding transfer of knowledge has been awarded to Helena Danielson, Professor of ...

Uppsala University is making a major investment in new study programmes in the field of tomorrow’s technologies, with eight new programmes beginnin...

Mummies, dinosaurs, beautiful art, plants from all over the world and several hundred-year-old books... Uppsala University has unique collections o...

“I’m driven by curiosity about how things are interconnected,” reflects Anders Backlund, professor of pharmacognosy. When he is not navigating thro...

The majority of women who undergo surgery for suspected ovarian cancer do not have cancer. A novel blood test developed by researchers at Uppsala U...

Carolina Rediviva has long been a treasure chamber for researchers and others interested in history. It holds one of Sweden’s largest collections o...

Hi there! Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell at the Department of Mathematics, one of the organizers of the international String-Math conference in the Un...

During the spring semester, groups of students from Uppsala University had the chance to utilise the Testa Center at GE Healthcare’s facility as pa...

What’s needed to give girls in East Africa the opportunity to study science at university level? Well, one way is to hold a summer school at Uppsal...

Today, between 10,000 and 40,000 people in Sweden are suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME. In the search for a cure for the complex dise...

Maria Grahn-Farley, Associate Professor in Public Law at the Department of Law, has won the annual course literature prize from the publisher Stude...