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For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and N...

Watching videos on YouTube and various streaming services accounts for an increasing share of the world's energy consumption. But what is really th...

How do we develop social robots that make everyone feel included and represented? This question is the focus of researchers Ginevra Castellano and ...

As an engineer Cecilia Boström is used to solving problems. She has continued with this in her role as Head of the Department of Electrical Enginee...

Why not let drones cut down and remove trees when the forest needs thinning, rather than using heavy, fossil fuel-driven forestry machinery? This w...

Uppsala University recently welcomed 24 new honorary doctors. Three of them work in research communication in various ways: Ulrika Björkstén, a sci...

While automation, robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in Swedish workplaces, there is a lack of knowledge concerning how ...

Gabriele Messori, Professor of Meteorology, has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He will be analysin...

Professor Annica Black-Schaffer of the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded a 2023 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Gra...

UTN's pedagogical award for 2022 was awarded to Anna Sakovich for her pedagogical efforts in the Single Variable Calculus course! Thanks to Anna's ...

“I would like to see a great deal more applied environmental research in social sciences,” says Sverker C. Jagers, the newly appointed Zennström Pr...

Hello there, Frida Henningsson Johnson, business advisor at UU Innovation, who’ll be taking three spin-off companies from Uppsala University to the...

Can we use the Earth's own natural thermostat and accelerate the process to help reduce global warming? Promising progress has been made in the res...

A powerful laser aimed at the sky can create a virtual lightning conductor and divert the path of lightning strikes, as demonstrated by experiments...

Many people like the idea of heading out onto the ice on a fine winter’s day. But how safe is it actually to walk on a frozen lake? Does ice behave...

What is our planet’s breaking point? How can we develop electronic systems that are compatible with human biology? At this year’s Celsius-Linnaeus ...

Future mobile devices will need to store and work with increasingly large amounts of data. Uppsala researchers, together with a world-leading indus...

In the week leading up to the Conferment Ceremony, Uppsala University is arranging open lectures and panel discussions with this year’s new honorar...

Anatomical models for surgeons to practise on, patient-specific prostheses and implants, specially designed tools and pharmaceuticals... the list o...

He describes himself as someone nerdily interested in physics and driven by the idea of spreading knowledge to others. Uppsala Student of the Year ...