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During the spring, around 80 Ukrainian university teachers have had the chance to take a course on online teaching and learning from Uppsala University. The hope is to give them new perspectives on...

On 9-10 May, the EU flagship Battery 2030+ will be hosting its annual conference at Uppsala University. To promote new innovations in the field of battery research, 300 representatives from the res...

Four of Uppsala University’s materials science researchers are among the most prominent in Sweden within the field, according to Research.com’s recently published ranking list. Top of the list is V...

In just a few years all domestic aviation in Sweden is due to be fossil-free. Electric aircraft could be part of the solution. However, this in turn makes new demands on airports, which must be abl...

Hello Ivana Suchankova and Chiara Dalla Santa. You are Master’s students from Uppsala University competing with your start-up idea in the Venture Cup Startup regional final in May 2023.

How are we affected by our environment and the materials around us? Just how gender equal are courses and programmes today and what part do gender stereotypes play in who learns what? Anita Husséni...

This spring, the Swedish Armed Forces will visit the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University on a number of occasions. What’s the purpose of these visits, Marcus Lindahl, Professor ...

A new study led by researchers from Uppsala University shows a clear link between economic inequality and mortality during severe flood disasters. Countries with an uneven distribution of income ha...

Rich elites with large swimming pools and well-maintained lawns are leaving poorer communities without basic access to water in cities across the world. New research, led by Uppsala University, pub...

The sharp increase in heatwaves in southern Europe in recent years is not only due to the greenhouse effect. Climate change has made a particular type of atmospheric circulation pattern more common...

In the latest round of ERC Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), two researchers at Uppsala University have been successful: Ashleigh Harris and Sebastian Deindl. Their projects...

Can a computer analyse a picture of a face and decide how old the person is? Anders Hast thinks it can. He is currently developing an algorithm that is intended to determine a person’s age based pu...

For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian palaeontologists has discovered remains o...

Watching videos on YouTube and various streaming services accounts for an increasing share of the world's energy consumption. But what is really the carbon footprint of our online activities? Mike ...

How do we develop social robots that make everyone feel included and represented? This question is the focus of researchers Ginevra Castellano and Katie Winkle and also of an international conferen...

As an engineer Cecilia Boström is used to solving problems. She has continued with this in her role as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Here, researchers get many questions about w...

Why not let drones cut down and remove trees when the forest needs thinning, rather than using heavy, fossil fuel-driven forestry machinery? This would lessen the impact on forests and land, and re...

Uppsala University recently welcomed 24 new honorary doctors. Three of them work in research communication in various ways: Ulrika Björkstén, a science journalist on Sveriges Radio, journalist and ...

While automation, robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly used in Swedish workplaces, there is a lack of knowledge concerning how this affects the human work environment. Insurance...

Gabriele Messori, Professor of Meteorology, has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). He will be analysing large volumes of data in order to extract inform...