News on Science and Technology
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He's Looking at the World through the Big Data Lens
03 oktober 2017
When people misunderstood his poems, he wanted to do something where he could communicate in a way that left no room for misunderstanding. That’s w...
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Mechanism behind ‘DNA scissor’ CRIPSR-Cas9 further revealed
29 september 2017
A research group at Uppsala University has found out how CRISPR-Cas9 – also known as ‘molecular scissors’ – can search the genome for a specific DN...
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Modern humans may have been around for nearly twice as long
29 september 2017
A research team from Uppsala University and South Africa show that modern humans may have emerged 80,000–170,000 years earlier than previously beli...
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Five new honorary doctors named in science and technology
21 september 2017
Five new honorary doctors have been named at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University. AbuBakr Bahaj, energy researcher, will be...
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Ancestor of super predator sea reptile found in Germany
18 september 2017
A new species of extinct sea monster from the Early Jurassic has been identified by a team of German and Swedish researchers. The fossilized bones ...
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First genetic proof that women were Viking warriors
08 september 2017
New DNA evidence uncovered by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University shows that there were in fact female Viking warriors. The ...
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Four top researchers at Uppsala University to receive ERC Starting Grants
07 september 2017
The European Research Council (ERC) has now publicised which researchers have been awarded 2017 ERC Starting Grants. 406 research projects across t...
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Fossil footprints challenge established theories of human evolution
01 september 2017
Newly discovered human-like footprints from Crete may put the established narrative of early human evolution to the test. The footprints are approx...
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His algorithms replace uncertain assumptions
30 augusti 2017
Is it possible to ensure that patients get the right dose of medicine? Or take their medications properly? Alexander Medvedev’s mathematical comput...
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Chernobyl’s frogs are thriving
28 augusti 2017
How has the Chernobyl nuclear disaster affected wildlife? The zooologist German Orizaola was there in May to collect samples from tree frogs living...
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New ancient sea reptile found in Germany – earliest of its kind
28 augusti 2017
A previously unrecognised 132 million-year-old fossilised sea monster from northern Germany has been identified by an international team of researc...
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First UNESCO Chair at Uppsala University
05 juli 2017
Ashok Swain at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research has been appointed a UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation.
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"We need to shorten the time from idea to realization"
26 juni 2017
How can research within medical engineering better match the needs of the health care system? With the center MedTech Science and Innovation at the...
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Major joint venture in medical technology
21 juni 2017
Technical expertise is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University will now be the first in t...
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SEK 300 million invested in systems biology
19 juni 2017
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF, is investing SEK 300 million in interdisciplinary research in systems biology. Two of the nine ...
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Uppsala spectrometer “trains” Stanford’s free-electron laser
15 juni 2017
In a major international collaboration led by Imperial College, London, researchers at Uppsala University and elsewhere have found a way to facilit...
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Börje Johansson awarded the Humboldt Research Award
15 juni 2017
Börje Johansson, Senior Professor of Materials Theory at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, won the prestigious international Humboldt Resear...
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Flycatchers’ birdsongs encoded in their genes
12 juni 2017
Juvenile birds discriminate and selectively learn their own species’ songs even when primarily exposed to the songs of other species, but the under...
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New discovery opens for 3D measurements of magnetism
08 juni 2017
A team of researchers from Uppsala University, China and Germany have substantially extended the possibilities of an experimental technique called ...
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3D-modelling shows food residues in 230 million years old fossil faeces
05 juni 2017
Synchrotron scanning can produce high-quality 3D models of well-preserved food residues from fossil faeces. That's the result of a new study, by pa...