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During the Triassic period (252–201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, m...

Climate researcher Keri Facer from the University of Bristol will be Uppsala University’s third visiting Zennström Professor of Climate Change Lead...

Uppsala University Library has recently purchased a well-known portrait of Carl Linnaeus. The small pen and wash drawing was made by Jean Eric Rehn...

An aquatic parasitic fungus causes lethal infections in amphibians and is thought to be one of the reasons for a global decline in toad and frog po...

The Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize is Uppsala University’s foremost award for efforts to promote human rights and liberty. This year’s prize is a...

Straddling academia and the pharmaceutical industry, Sara Mangsbo is building a platform for a future as a research scientist and serial entreprene...

Paulina Nowicka is a new Professor of Food Studies, Nutrition and Dietetics, especially Communication of Dietetics, at the Department of Food Studi...

Growing up with dogs is linked to a lower risk of asthma, especially if the dogs are female, a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala Uni...

Fireside chat, the premiere event organised by UU Innovation on 25 October, is a new way of giving further insights into being a researcher and an ...

The Uppsala Antibiotic Center launches their newest outreach project, "The AMR Studio", with the occasion of the World Antibiotic Awareness Week.

Johanna Lindahl, senior scientist in veterinary-epidemiology, has been awarded the SIGHT Award 2018 and SEK 100,000 from the Swedish Institute for ...

In a new article published in Nature an international research team presents high-resolution images of photosystem II, the protein complex that spl...

Runic research at Uppsala University has received a donation of USD 15,000 from Swedish-American Myrna G. Smith. Part of the gift is a new contribu...

Norse World is a new database which will make it easier for researchers to study perceptions of the surrounding world in medieval Scandinavian lite...

The nine faculties at Uppsala University have decided who to designate as honorary doctors this academic year. Among the new honorary doctors are r...

Proteins govern the biology of the cell. Through random mutation the sequences of our proteins slowly change over time, usually without affecting f...

A two-year Viking exhibition with 1,300-year-old artefacts from the time leading up to the Viking Age is currently touring the United States. The a...

Uppsala University and GE Healthcare Life Sciences have signed a long-term collaboration agreement that gives university researchers the opportunit...

The rape of men is an area where there are large gaps in knowledge. Now a survey is under way of all rapes of men that have been reported in the pa...

In addition to increasing productivity, the introduction of industrial robots has increased wages for the employees. At the same time, industrial r...