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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 ...

The European robin’s closest relatives are found in tropical Africa. The European robin is therefore not closely related to the Japanese robin, des...

Five researchers from Uppsala University are on Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers” list, which covers the most cited researchers worldwide.

Understanding how a specific molecule behaves during complex biological processes is a challenge facing biomedical research, despite major biotechn...

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...

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...

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...

The entrepreneur Sverker Lerheden has donated SEK 7.5 million to Uppsala University in the name of his wife, Birgitta Sintring Lerheden. The money ...

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...

The energy crisis has the potential to spawn more active and flexible electricity consumers and thus a more efficient electricity market and use of...

A recent study, published in Current Biology, led by researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University, has shown that juvenile songbirds ...

Sun, water and carbon dioxide interacting in artificial photosynthesis. According to researchers at Uppsala University, this could be the recipe fo...

Since the war in Ukraine broke out, nuclear weapons have once again become a genuine threat to humanity. To promote nuclear disarmament, expertise ...

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...

Roughly 200-million-year-old footprints of large predatory dinosaurs, along with the skeletons of other dinosaurs, animals and plant fossils, have ...

Many valuable fossils never become known to science. They either remain in the earth or find their way into private collections. These fossils coul...

Marika Edoff, Professor in Solid State Electronics, and Nikolai Piskunov, Professor in Observational Astrophysics, are joint winners of the 2022 Bj...

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...

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...

Most researchers can only guess how animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago were built internally, given that internal organs disinteg...