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To provide the right treatment for MS, it is important to know when the disease changes from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive, a transition that is currently recognised on average three …

Can AI and automation shorten the time it takes to develop new drugs? Ola Spjuth combines his academic expertise in data-driven drug development with entrepreneurship to help the pharmaceutical …

One moment, Ginevra Castellano, Professor of Intelligent Interactive Systems and Director of the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab, who is coordinating a new international project, ‘Measuring children's …

What are the indicators of consciousness in humans and animals? And what about artificial intelligence – can computational systems develop consciousness? We asked Michele Farisco, a researcher in …

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify molecules that could serve as new drugs for mental health disorders. AI can be used to predict the three-dimensional structures of important receptors …

Immediately after the assassination of Gustav III in 1792, his private archive was transferred to Uppsala University Library. The archive, containing all the letters and documents saved by the king, …

In 30 to 40 years, there will be more dead people than alive on Facebook. But who should have the right to this digital graveyard full of valuable data? This is one of the questions explored by …

How can we ensure that we build robots that are useful, trustworthy and support human flourishing? In UppTalk, human-machine interaction researcher Katie Winkle talks about how the design of social …

A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading news. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and …

As more and more parts of our lives are lived on social media, researchers looking to study society must also follow suit. Matteo Magnani uses algorithms to investigate how information from both bots …