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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...

Uppsala University scientists have designed a new mouse model that facilitates study of factors contributing to the progression of human bladder ca...

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered lymph node-like structures close to the tumour in brain cancer patients, where immune cells can b...

The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is the first-ever insect to be described from fossil faeces. The animal the researchers have to thank for the...

At the Ar Research Station in northern Gotland, a number of researchers and doctoral students are currently working on a pilot project to improve t...

A few males are enough to fertilise all the females. The number of males therefore has little bearing on a population’s growth. However, they are i...

Compulsory school students earn higher grades when their grades get more weight in the high school admission process. This is the finding of a new ...

Indonesia’s volcanoes are among the world’s most dangerous. Why? Through chemical analyses of tiny minerals in lava from Bali and Java, researchers...

Magdalena Kuchler’s project “SubCity: Future imaginaries of the city subsurface” has been granted SEK 8 million from Formas. The purpose of the stu...