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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?...

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...

Many of the University’s museums currently hold preserved specimens of embryos, fetuses, newborns, and women’s pelvises. During the nineteenth and ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites...

Hello there... Li Bennich-Björkman. You’re the University’s Johan Skytte Professor of Eloquence and Government, affiliated with the Institute for R...

Lava domes form at the top of many volcanoes when viscous lava erupts. When they become unstable, they can collapse and cause a hazard. An interna...

An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very surprising because Amor...

The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. This conclusion was drawn by an international team of researc...

Hello there... Peter Andersson, researcher in the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics (part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy), now settin...

Hello there... Håkan Engqvist, Professor of Materials Science at Uppsala University and co-founder of Psilox, the company bringing new biomaterials...

“We are motivated by the possibility of solving a problem that is really serious,” says Nazar Akrami, a professor of psychology at Uppsala Universi...

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years...

Hello Dan Larhammar, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. There, you took the initiative to ...

Uppsala researchers have succeeded in designing a molecule that inhibits the replication of coronaviruses and that has great potential for developm...

After 50 years of dormancy, the Cumbre Vieja (“Old Peak”) volcanic ridge on the Canary Island of La Palma burst into life in September 2021. Lava, ...

For many years, researchers at Uppsala University have been exploring the genetic origins of the Scandinavian grey wolf population, which was found...

CRISPR-Cas9, the “genetic scissors”, creates new potential for curing diseases; but treatments must be reliable. In a new study, researchers have d...

Although many people know what increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks, not everyone recognises their own risk factors...

Marika Edoff, Professor and director for the Division of Solar Cell Technology will become the coordinator of Uppsala University’s new centre of ex...

Cancer researcher Fredrik Swartling has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The EUR 150,000 grant will be used to develop diagnostic and th...