News on Science and Technology
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Larger schooling fish found to display stronger attraction forces
27 april 2017
In schooling fish, collective movement emerges as a result of multiple social interactions between individuals. In a new study led by researchers a...
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Four young Uppsala researchers to receive Ingvar Carlsson Award
13 april 2017
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has decided to award a total of SEK 16 million to four young postdocs at Uppsala University. The proj...
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Revealed: The genes that affect spawning season in herring
05 april 2017
It is very important for all animals to reproduce at the time of year which gives their progeny the best chance of surviving. A new study, which co...
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Genes key to killer bee’s success
05 april 2017
In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University sequenced the genomes of Africanised bees that have invaded large parts of the world to find ou...
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Two new supercomputers strengthen important research
04 april 2017
Bianca and Rackham are two new supercomputers that were inaugurated at Uppsala University’s UPPMAX on 24 April. They are both unique in different w...
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She reveals the molecular advances in cells
04 april 2017
What happens in cells when the molecular composition changes? In her research, analytical chemist Ingela Lanekoff at the Department of Chemistry-BM...
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New study to resurrect enzymes billions of years old
27 mars 2017
Members of the international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), which seeks to support frontier research in the life sciences, include organisa...
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Finding the right details in Big Data
21 mars 2017
Hello there! Carolina Wählby, professor of quantitative microscopy at the Department of Information Technology. You were recently awarded 29 millio...
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Older Uppsala theses all now catalogued
15 mars 2017
Would you like to read a thesis in Latin written in 1604? Are you curious about Carl Peter Thunberg’s Thesis on the animals mentioned in the Bible ...
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Kristina Edström appointed honorary doctor in Norway
13 mars 2017
Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry (Ångström Laboratory), has been appointed honorary doctor at the ...
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2017 Gustaf Adolf Medals awarded
13 mars 2017
Five Elder Gustaf Adolf Medals in gold and two in silver have been awarded to employees at Uppsala University.
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How to pull off a climate change challenge
08 mars 2017
Changing your behavior doesn’t happen overnight, but can it be done during 30 days? Students at CEMUS’ course Global Challenges and Sustainable Fut...
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Measurements by school pupils paved way for key research findings
08 mars 2017
With their measurements and samples, nearly 3,500 schoolchildren have assisted a research study on lakes and global warming, now published in an ac...
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Smarter data movement for faster computing
07 mars 2017
How can we make our computers faster? The answer, according to David Black Schaffer’s new European Research Council Starting Grant project, lies in...
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Genetic data show mainly men migrated to Europe from the Pontic steppe 5,000 years ago
21 februari 2017
A new study published in PNAS, looking at the sex-specifically inherited X chromosome of prehistoric human remains, shows that hardly any women too...
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Organic matter composition found to be critical factor in mercury methylation
09 februari 2017
The biological formation of neurotoxic methyl mercury is an enigmatic process underpinning mercury-related health and environmental hazards. Nevert...
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What can we learn from chaos and rabies?
08 februari 2017
On Thursday February 9, it’s time for the yearly Celsius-Linné lectures. Two of the world's top scientists will come to BMC at Uppsala University t...
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Uppsala researcher is Sweden’s most cited in computer sciences
07 februari 2017
We had a few words with Peter Stoica, Professor of Systems Modeling at the Department of Information Technology who has been ranked number 1 in Swe...
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Chaos and rabies at this year’s Celsius–Linné Lectures
07 februari 2017
Can we predict the future with mathematics? How can the rabies virus give us answers on the physical and psychological effects of stress? At this y...
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She is researching the future of carbon dioxide storage
07 februari 2017
Since the 1800’s, we have pumped huge amounts of oil and gas out of the ground. Now it is time to reverse the process and put the carbon back where...