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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...

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...

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...

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

Carl Hedman, a student in the Master's Programme in Energy Systems Engineering, recently won the first round of the ABB Sustainability Challenge fo...

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...

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...

Four new international master’s programmes at Uppsala University will provide necessary competences in areas crucial to tomorrow’s labour market an...

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...

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...

The Behavioral Facility at Uppsala University assists researchers in behavioral sciences in planning, executing and analysing preclinical animal st...

Quantum materials will be one of the cornerstones of future technology and thus a key component of engineering knowledge in our society. If Sweden ...

Five prototypes to improve work in the mining industry. They are the result of the EU project Smart Exploration, which has been led by Uppsala Univ...

There is a growing need to use supercomputers for modelling or data processing for use in high performance computer systems. However, to be able to...

Swedish researchers from institutions including Uppsala University have spent four years gathering data from the areas affected by the major forest...

Uppsala University is a member of the new Horizon2020 network ChETEC-INFRA, or Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos – Infras...