News on Science and Technology

Professor Kristina Luthman at Gothenburg University’s Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology has been selected winner of the Ulla and Stig H...

Researchers at the Division of Solid-State Physics and the Division of Materials Physics at Uppsala University have shown how the collective dynami...

Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry (Ångström Laboratory) and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science and...

This year’s Rudbeck Medal goes to professors Sverker Gustavsson, Lena Kjellén and Peter Stoica, and the Linnaeus Medal to Professor Hans Ellegren. ...

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s investment in young researchers continues with 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows, four of which are at U...

In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analysed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct...

Inspired by the way people move at heavy metal concerts, an international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Harvard University have l...

In a new study, an international team of researchers made significant progress in visualising the process of how plants split water to produce oxyg...

The mesoporous material Upsalite® is shown to inhibit growth of bacteria associated with acne and hospital acquired infections. In a study publishe...

Cooperating sailfish catch more fish per time than if they hunt individually, a new study from Uppsala University, published in the scientific jour...

Of the many ecological questions unfolded by climate change, the potential influence of temperature on the feeding preferences of organisms is curr...

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced which researchers are being awarded Starting Grants for 2016. 325 research projects across the EU...

The world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, and Uppsala University have signed a deal worth SEK 20 million for accelerator development a...

Allen Ali Mohammadi wants to help people. He wants to save lives. He has already received an EU grant for his device which should be able to detect...

Since the 18th century, geologists have struggled to explain how big magma chambers form in the Earth’s crust. In particular, it has been difficult...

A completely changed understanding of comets. This may be the outcome of space probe Rosetta’s twelve-year journey through the solar system, which ...

In a new thesis from Uppsala University, Simon Davidsson shows that a rapid expansion of renewable energy technology is not necessarily sustainable...

Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, published in Sci...

Severe drought is associated with a higher incidence of armed conflict among agriculture-dependent populations. Strengthening the status and well-b...

Remember dropping your milk teeth? After a lot of wiggling the tooth finally dropped out. But in your hand was only the enamel-covered crown: the e...