News on Science and Technology

Hello there! Lars Tranvik, Professor of Limnology at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, who recently penned an op-ed for the Swedish broadshee...

AI is being used increasingly in medicine. To speed development, the EU project BigPicture is building a research platform for digital pathology. I...

A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis...

It will soon be time at last for a doctoral degree conferment ceremony at Uppsala University again, after a break due to the pandemic. Though it ma...

Populations that practice agriculture have higher frequencies of lactase persistence-associated alleles, which normally manifests as lactose tolera...

While Peter Lindblad has served in many academic roles over the years, it is to research that he always returns. At the Ångström Laboratory, his re...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now distributed the grants in its 2020 ERC Advanced Grants call and Uppsala University is one of the recipi...

Meet Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry at Uppsala University, in a conversation in the series UppTalk Weekly ab...

Hello there Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt, former Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Photomolecular Science, Swiss Federal Inst...

The International Science Programme (ISP) which has been providing assistance to developing countries in research and doctoral education is turning...

Uppsala University now also has an account on the new social media app Clubhouse. Under the club name ‘Uppsala University’, all affiliated with the...

While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers from Uppsala University discovered a new species. They name...

Johan Asplund, who will soon defend his doctoral thesis in symplectic geometry, has received a postdoctoral position at Columbia University in New ...

The transition to a fossil-free energy system, in Sweden and globally, is one of the great challenges of our time. For a successful transition to a...

Battery research is an important piece of the puzzle for the transition to renewables and a sustainable society. Uppsala University has the largest...

Sustainable energy storage is in great demand. Researchers at Uppsala University have therefore developed an all-organic proton battery that can be...

A new technology that can significantly increase electricity and heat production from solar radiation is under development in the lab of Ilia Katar...

The celebration of Valborg (30 April) was cancelled in Uppsala last year because of the pandemic. The actors involved in Valborg activities have no...

The research programme FAIRTRANS (Fair Transformations to a Fossil-Free Future) has been awarded a grant totalling SEK 40 million from Mistra and t...

For a successful transition to a sustainable energy system, there must be comprehensive research on, first, technology and, second, the behaviour a...