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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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

Hormones released after a brain injury contribute to movement problems on the left and right sides of the body, scientists from Uppsala University ...

Which effects did the heat wave of summer 2020 have in Siberia? In a new study geologists from Bonn, Uppsala and St. Petersburg compared the spatia...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed drugs as antivirals. Researchers at Uppsala Univer...

In a study published in the US journal Science Advances, a single cell type map of human tissues is presented. An open access atlas has been launch...

Male seed beetles with genital structures that injure females may have greater reproductive success. As new research from Uppsala University shows,...

The partnership will accelerate the development of new Tuberculosis (TB) drug regimens as part of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a publ...

An international research team has identified hundreds of genetic variants that are linked with age at first sex and birth of the first child. The ...

The ongoing pandemic has had worldwide repercussions. One is that it has highlighted disparities in access to health care. A group of Uppsala Unive...

For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contacts, such as small talk with unknown individuals...

If you hear thunder, don’t go outside. This is the most important piece of advice from lightning researcher Vernon Cooray. Death by lightning is hi...