News on Science and Technology
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New link found between Native Americans and first humans in America
14 februari 2014
DNA from a 12,600 year-old burial site in Montana has allowed Uppsala University researchers to help uncover the origins of today’s Native American...
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Researchers discover ‘epic’ new Burgess Shale site in Canada
11 februari 2014
Yoho National Park’s 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale – home to some of the planet’s earliest animals – is one of the world’s most important foss...
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2014 Celsius–Linnaeus Lectures: How the universe and life developed
10 februari 2014
Exactly how our universe started is still unclear. Recently though, the knowledge boundary has been moved closer to the starting moment using data ...
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Using golden DNA strands to close electric circuits in biosensors
28 januari 2014
By letting DNA strands grow together with gold, scientists at Uppsala Berzelii Centre for Neurodiagnostics and Science for Life Laboratory have dev...
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New method rescues DNA from contaminated Neandertal bones
28 januari 2014
Retrieval of ancient DNA molecules is usually performed with special precautions to prevent DNA from researchers or the environment getting mixed i...
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Uppsala researchers study the transformation of a comet
23 januari 2014
On the Monday evening 20 January, the first signals from space probe Rosetta in two and a half years were finally detected at NASA’s facility in Go...
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Famine may have driven evolution of milk tolerance
22 januari 2014
Ancient DNA from early Iberian farmers shows that the widely held evolutionary hypothesis of calcium absorption was not the only reason Europeans e...
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Mitochondrial genes matter!
14 januari 2014
Contrary to common belief, mitochondrial genes seem to matter for how well individuals survive and reproduce. These new results are reported by res...
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First dinosaur remains discovered in Saudi Arabia
08 januari 2014
Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula. An international team of scientists from Uppsala University, Museum Victoria, Mon...
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Variety of genetic risk factors behind bone cancer in dogs
12 december 2013
Bone cancer in dogs is affected by a variety of genetic risk factors. Researchers from Uppsala University and the Broad Institute show this in a ne...
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Better water purification with seeds from moringa trees
05 december 2013
Seeds from Moringa oleifera trees can be used to purify water. Uppsala University leads a research group which has discovered that seed material c...
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Detailed cancer diagnostics with new analysis method
03 december 2013
New cancer treatments require good prior characterization of the tumour. Today, molecular diagnostics is time-consuming work, and important knowl...
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24,000 year old DNA reveals Native American origins
21 november 2013
An international team of scientists have reported a breakthrough in the quest for Native American origins in this week’s Nature. Key to the puzzle ...
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Grazers and pollinators shape plant evolution
22 oktober 2013
It has long been known that the characteristics of many plants with wide ranges can vary geographically, depending on differences in climate. But c...
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Winners of 2013 Pedagogical Awards selected
27 maj 2013
This year’s winners of the Pedagogical Awards teach rhetoric, economics, pharmaceutical bioscience and mathematics. The free Pedagogical Prize goes...
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Cooperating on future energy-based economic models
27 maj 2013
Today’s economic models cannot explain how the shortage of oil will change the future growth of GDP. They must be combined with models that describ...
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The mechanism that puts the curl in curling revealed
14 maj 2013
Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden can now reveal the mechanism behind the curved path of a curling stone. The discovery by the research...
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New findings on hydrogen production in green algae
16 april 2013
New research results from Uppsala University instil hope of efficient hydrogen production with green algae being possible in the future, despite th...
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One step closer to solar wind-powered spacecraft
25 mars 2013
A little over a year ago, a research team started to develop a vital part of a Finnish invention – an electric solar wind sail for interplanetary j...
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Curiosity's radiation instrument calibrated in Uppsala
19 mars 2013
Ever since the space rover Curiosity set its wheels on Mars in August 2012, millions have followed it on NASA’s online video streams. A less known ...