News on Science and Technology
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History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 augusti 2021
An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of t...
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Male Y chromosome causes sex differences in body size
24 augusti 2021
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...
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How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 augusti 2021
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 ...
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Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 augusti 2021
The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relatives, the Denisovans, a new study led by Uppsal...
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Thawing permafrost releases greenhouse gas from depth
03 augusti 2021
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...
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Male beetles’ genitalia harmful and beneficial to females
15 juli 2021
Male seed beetles with genital structures that injure females may have greater reproductive success. As new research from Uppsala University shows,...
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Uppsala student lauded by ABB for energy solution
09 juli 2021
Carl Hedman, a student in the Master's Programme in Energy Systems Engineering, recently won the first round of the ABB Sustainability Challenge fo...
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Stay inside during thunderstorms
08 juli 2021
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...
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New beetle found in fossil faeces attributed to dinosaur ancestor
02 juli 2021
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...
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Research to save the Baltic cod
01 juli 2021
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...
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New science and technology programmes to ensure future skills provision
30 juni 2021
Four new international master’s programmes at Uppsala University will provide necessary competences in areas crucial to tomorrow’s labour market an...
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Males help keep populations genetically healthy
28 juni 2021
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...
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New knowledge helps to explain Indonesia's explosive volcanoes
24 juni 2021
Indonesia’s volcanoes are among the world’s most dangerous. Why? Through chemical analyses of tiny minerals in lava from Bali and Java, researchers...
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SEK 8 million goes to research on urban underground space
24 juni 2021
Magdalena Kuchler’s project “SubCity: Future imaginaries of the city subsurface” has been granted SEK 8 million from Formas. The purpose of the stu...
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Uppsala University Behavioral Facility brings animal studies to new heights
18 juni 2021
The Behavioral Facility at Uppsala University assists researchers in behavioral sciences in planning, executing and analysing preclinical animal st...
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Taking the first steps into the world of quantum materials
09 juni 2021
Quantum materials will be one of the cornerstones of future technology and thus a key component of engineering knowledge in our society. If Sweden ...
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Five smart solutions for the mining industry
08 juni 2021
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...
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New competence centre to assist with large-scale data processing
07 juni 2021
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...
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How the major Swedish forest fire of 2014 affected the ecosystem
01 juni 2021
Swedish researchers from institutions including Uppsala University have spent four years gathering data from the areas affected by the major forest...
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New network for nuclear astrophysics
01 juni 2021
Uppsala University is a member of the new Horizon2020 network ChETEC-INFRA, or Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos – Infras...