News on Science and Technology
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Scientists: Madagascar’s unique biodiversity in grave danger
02 december 2022
Madagascar has an enormous biodiversity, with most of the plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth. But the rich life on the island is ...
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Old World flycatchers’ family tree mapped
24 november 2022
The European robin’s closest relatives are found in tropical Africa. The European robin is therefore not closely related to the Japanese robin, des...
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Five researchers at Uppsala University among the most cited
23 november 2022
Five researchers from Uppsala University are on Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers” list, which covers the most cited researchers worldwide.
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Advanced biotechnology focus of new EU project
22 november 2022
Understanding how a specific molecule behaves during complex biological processes is a challenge facing biomedical research, despite major biotechn...
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Several innovation companies from Uppsala University on prestigious list
15 november 2022
Each year, Sweden’s Ny Teknik magazine presents a list of the top 33 young tech companies in Sweden that are judged to be a leader of the future, a...
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Agnes Wold to receive honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
09 november 2022
The faculties at Uppsala University have now decided who they want to award honorary doctorates to this year. In all, 24 honorary doctorates will b...
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IceCube neutrinos provide new view of a nearby galaxy
08 november 2022
For the first time, an international team of scientists has found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from a nearby galaxy. The galaxy, NGC 1...
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Donation towards new advanced microscope and competence centre
07 november 2022
The entrepreneur Sverker Lerheden has donated SEK 7.5 million to Uppsala University in the name of his wife, Birgitta Sintring Lerheden. The money ...
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Nine new honorary doctors appointed at Faculty of Science and Technology
02 november 2022
The faculties at Uppsala University have now decided on the award of honorary doctorates for 2022. Among the nine new honorary doctors at the Facul...
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The energy crisis may lead to greater efficiency
31 oktober 2022
The energy crisis has the potential to spawn more active and flexible electricity consumers and thus a more efficient electricity market and use of...
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Nestling birds recognize their local song ‘dialect’
26 oktober 2022
A recent study, published in Current Biology, led by researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University, has shown that juvenile songbirds ...
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Artificial photosynthesis could generate new fossil-free fuels
25 oktober 2022
Sun, water and carbon dioxide interacting in artificial photosynthesis. According to researchers at Uppsala University, this could be the recipe fo...
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Tackling nuclear threat through knowledge
19 oktober 2022
Since the war in Ukraine broke out, nuclear weapons have once again become a genuine threat to humanity. To promote nuclear disarmament, expertise ...
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Broad collaboration on Gotland’s energy transition
13 oktober 2022
Gotland has been singled out by the government as a forerunner in the transition to renewable energy. The goal: to have an energy system based on r...
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Large predatory dinosaurs discovered in Skåne
13 oktober 2022
Roughly 200-million-year-old footprints of large predatory dinosaurs, along with the skeletons of other dinosaurs, animals and plant fossils, have ...
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Collaborating to build museums in developing countries
06 oktober 2022
Many valuable fossils never become known to science. They either remain in the earth or find their way into private collections. These fossils coul...
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Björkén Prize goes to Marika Edoff and Nikolai Piskunov
06 oktober 2022
Marika Edoff, Professor in Solid State Electronics, and Nikolai Piskunov, Professor in Observational Astrophysics, are joint winners of the 2022 Bj...
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The unknown world of fungi under our feet
05 oktober 2022
By taking soil samples and studying fungal DNA contained in them, Anna Rosling's research team is unearthing the diversity and distribution of a pr...
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Successful care model with virtual home hospital
04 oktober 2022
The Borgholm Model has received a lot of attention thanks to its good results in providing local care for the elderly and frail. The model, which c...
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The world’s oldest heart found in a placoderm
30 september 2022
Most researchers can only guess how animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago were built internally, given that internal organs disinteg...