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Long-lived mushrooms that grow in ‘fairy rings’ accumulate surprisingly few mutations over time. This finding indicates that their protection against harmful mutations is well developed. The result...

Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully produced microorg...

Uppsala University is making a major investment in new study programmes in the field of tomorrow’s technologies, with eight new programmes beginning in the autumn term of 2020. “It is not every d...

Hi there! Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell at the Department of Mathematics, one of the organizers of the international String-Math conference in the University Main Building in Uppsala on 1–5 July. On ...

During the spring semester, groups of students from Uppsala University had the chance to utilise the Testa Center at GE Healthcare’s facility as part of their courses. The students spent their last...

What’s needed to give girls in East Africa the opportunity to study science at university level? Well, one way is to hold a summer school at Uppsala University. This resulted in networks that have ...

Today, between 10,000 and 40,000 people in Sweden are suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME. In the search for a cure for the complex disease, a new research centre is being built up in Up...

Patients favour eHealth records more than healthcare professionals did before online patient medical records were introduced. A research group at Uppsala University has followed the perceptions and...

As a researcher in nuclear physics, Karin Schönning gets to explore what the Universe is made of. Last year, she received the Robert Thalén prize for her contributions to the particle physics exper...

The security and safety department at Uppsala University conducts a safety survey aimed at students and employees at the university. The survey will be available until the 30 June 2019.

An international research team in which Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) are participating has for the first time reconstructed the tree of life for all ...

You cannot be the best at everything. A plant can be visible and very aromatic to attract pollinators or maintain a lower profile to avoid being eaten by herbivores. A new research study published ...

This year’s SSF Utilisation Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research goes to Maria Strømme and Håkan Engqvist of Uppsala University and Professor Carlota Canalias of KTH Royal Insti...

A research project led by Uppsala University has been awarded a EUR 3.2 million grant by the European Commission. The aim is to create renewable solar fuel using soap foam, carbon dioxide and sunli...

Uppsala University is setting up a chair in artificial intelligence (AI). It will be funded with SEK 15 million, over five years, by the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation. The focus of the professo...

In the future, oral and maxillofacial surgeons will be able to perform an operation on a computer before actually making an incision in the patient. Scanned three-dimensional images of the injured ...

The explosion of medical data in recent years has increased demand for faster and more accurate analysis methods in healthcare. At the Department of Information Technology, researchers are developi...

Artificial intelligence is on the way in many areas. Specially trained computer systems are used in cars, for example, and as support for doctors making a diagnosis. These machines are especially g...

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international research team, led from Uppsala University, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individual...

The origin of giant apatite-iron oxide ores of the so-called ‘Kiruna-type’ has been the topic of a long standing debate that has lasted for over 100 years. In a new article, published in Nature Com...