News on Science and Technology

In schooling fish, collective movement emerges as a result of multiple social interactions between individuals. In a new study led by researchers a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

What happens in cells when the molecular composition changes? In her research, analytical chemist Ingela Lanekoff at the Department of Chemistry-BM...

Members of the international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), which seeks to support frontier research in the life sciences, include organisa...

Hello there! Carolina Wählby, professor of quantitative microscopy at the Department of Information Technology. You were recently awarded 29 millio...

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 ...

Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry (Ångström Laboratory), has been appointed honorary doctor at the ...

Five Elder Gustaf Adolf Medals in gold and two in silver have been awarded to employees at Uppsala University.

Changing your behavior doesn’t happen overnight, but can it be done during 30 days? Students at CEMUS’ course Global Challenges and Sustainable Fut...

With their measurements and samples, nearly 3,500 schoolchildren have assisted a research study on lakes and global warming, now published in an ac...

How can we make our computers faster? The answer, according to David Black Schaffer’s new European Research Council Starting Grant project, lies in...

A new study published in PNAS, looking at the sex-specifically inherited X chromosome of prehistoric human remains, shows that hardly any women too...

The biological formation of neurotoxic methyl mercury is an enigmatic process underpinning mercury-related health and environmental hazards. Nevert...

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...

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...

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...

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...