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An exceptionally rare fossil jaw from a giant Jurassic pliosaur has been found in Switzerland, and recently identified by an international team of scientists. Pliosaurs were huge marine reptiles th...

Hello there Petter Elgh, President of the Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students, which traditionally organises the Utnarm careers fair on 7 November. What is on the programme for this y...

Hi there Maria Strømme, Professor in nanotechnology, and participating in the Kvalitetsmässan, a conference on AI, nanotechnology and cyber-attacks among other topics, on 12 – 14 November in Gothen...

On 15 November more than 20 new professors will be inaugurated at Uppsala University at a formal ceremony in the Grand Auditorium. Each will describe their research in short lectures in the Univers...

In a new collaborative project involving chemists with various backgrounds, researchers are seeking greener and more sustainable ways of producing organic compounds. If they succeed, several thousa...

Cars, satellites, aircraft, robots and pacemakers are all controlled by software in embedded computer systems. That they should be updatable in a simple and, above all, safe way without the entire ...

The nine faculties at Uppsala University have decided on who they wish to appoint as honorary doctors this academic year. The new honorary doctors include researchers in fields as diverse as string...

“This grant provides us with resources to meet one of science’s major challenges,” says Olle Eriksson, professor of theoretical magnetism, who is receiving an ERC Synergy Grant for the project Ultr...

In an interdisciplinary study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international research team has combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to understand the demograp...

With the aid of computer simulation models, David van der Spoel isolates the mechanisms behind molecular interactions. These models can predict the properties of a drug, or an environmental toxin’s...

Solar cells, glasses, mobile technology, medical treatments – there is an endless list of inventions for which ion-beam based research has been decisive. The Tandem Laboratory conducts advanced ana...

Focus on meeting the major challenges: that was the message delivered by Uppsala alumnus Niklas Zennström when he participated in a panel discussion in front of students on the Master’s Programme i...

Hi there, Cecilia Broman of Uppsala University’s Buildings Division and project manager for the New Ångström development. It has been a year since ground was broken on the extension to the Ångström...

By developing unique code, Peter Oppeneer and his research team have discovered a new superconducting material – a material that conducts current without energy loss and that repels magnetic fields...

The bell has rung for the autumn term and sleeves are being rolled up around the faculty. What’s in the works for Teknat in the near future? Johan Tysk, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the Disciplinary ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now announced which researchers have been awarded ERC Starting Grants in the 2019 call. A total of EUR 621 million will be shared out among 408 researchers a...

A moment with... Charlotte Platzer-Björkman, professor in solid state electronics and researcher on thin-film solar cells, who began a three-year appointment as the director of the Centre for Envir...

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, reports that a single amino acid change in the light-sensing rhodopsin protein played a critical ro...

Modern flamingoes employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar contents are described from more than 150 million year ...

Hi, Helena Danielson, professor of biochemistry and this year’s recipient of Hjärnäpplet, the innovation prize at Uppsala University. The explanatory statement indicates that you have been very suc...