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March 11 marks the day of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan that caused thousands of fatalities and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. On the same day, two years ago, the World Health...

Salt is used to de-ice roads to make them safer to drive on, but what are the negative impacts beyond rusting cars and angry letters to the editor? A new global study examines how life in lakes is ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery was made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in Portugal, dating to 8 000 years ago. A new stu...

This autumn, the new Master's Programme in Battery Technology and Energy Storage – a first in the Nordic region – will kick off at Uppsala University. This programme has been designed in cooperatio...

Lava domes form at the top of many volcanoes when viscous lava erupts. When they become unstable, they can collapse and cause a hazard. An international team of researchers has analysed summit dom...

An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very surprising because Amoreira and other midden sites in the Muge region are...

The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. This conclusion was drawn by an international team of researchers after having examined thin sections, high-res...

Hello there…Max Mesch, student in the Master’s Programme in Engineering Physics and project manager for the celebrations to mark the Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students’ (UTN’s) 20th ...

Hello there... Peter Andersson, researcher in the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics (part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy), now setting out to measure airborne radioactivity in the wre...

Hello there... Håkan Engqvist, Professor of Materials Science at Uppsala University and co-founder of Psilox, the company bringing new biomaterials to the dental market. Psilox has now launched its...

By linking human population studies with experiments in cell and animal models, researchers have provided evidence that complex mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals impact children’s brain de...

Professor Olof Karis is succeeding Ian Mc Nulty, who has vacated the post of director at MAX IV after three and a half years. Karis has been engaged in research at the facility since its inception,...

Uppsala researchers have succeeded in designing a molecule that inhibits the replication of coronaviruses and that has great potential for development into a drug suitable for treating COVID-19. Th...

After 50 years of dormancy, the Cumbre Vieja (“Old Peak”) volcanic ridge on the Canary Island of La Palma burst into life in September 2021. Lava, ash and volcanic bombs were hurled from multiple c...

The Swedish Energy Agency has granted funding for implementation of the project ”Evaluating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on electricity consumption patterns in the residential, public and ...

For many years, researchers at Uppsala University have been exploring the genetic origins of the Scandinavian grey wolf population, which was founded by only three immigrating wolves. In their new ...

Marika Edoff, Professor and director for the Division of Solar Cell Technology will become the coordinator of Uppsala University’s new centre of excellence for solar energy, research – SOLVE. The a...

King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award Dan Larhammar, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, and Ulf Danielsson, Professor of Theoretical Physics, H.M. The King’s Medal.

During the corona pandemic, most people who had a choice steered away from travelling by bus. We have been urged to avoid and not contribute to congestion on board. New technology for air purificat...

The Ångström Library is relocating to house 10 (the new house at Ångström Laboratory) and will open in new premises on February 7.