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As of April 1, Johanna Hansson takes up the new position of Deputy Library Director at Uppsala University Library.

Cecilia Gustavsson at the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics is one of the researchers behind last autumn’s mass experiment Radiant Earth. The results are now in and reported to the upper secondar...

There are no signs that hybrids of dog and wolf have contributed to the Scandinavian wolf population – a matter that has been discussed, especially in Norway. These wolves appear to have originated...

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has allocated grants in several of its major programmes of research. Six researchers at Uppsala University have been appointed as Wallenberg Scholars, while...

Meet Cecilia Gustavsson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy who has created the course The Physics of Music, which will be offered for the first time in the spring semester ...

A large-scale research project on batteries is being planned in the EU and will be coordinated from Uppsala by Kristina Edström, professor at the Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory. She ...

As a child, Tomas Edvinsson was fascinated by what happens when light interacts with matter. Today, he researches energy interactions between light and materials for applications in new-generation ...

Hi there! Magnus Lundgren from the Department of Organismal Biology, who is coordinating the SciFest workshop “Dig into the past” with the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History:

How are reptiles capable of generating such a diversity of bright colors? And how is it possible that within a single population of the same species, different individuals exhibit different colorat...

A world moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy will rely more and more on energy storage and in particular on batteries. Better batteries can reduce the carbon footprint of the transport sect...

Rubisco is an important plant enzyme that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Marvin Seibert’s research team uses leaf spinach to study the protein at the molecular level. The new Testa Cen...

Sperm that live for longer before fertilising an egg produce healthier offspring – according to new research from Uppsala University and University of East Anglia, Great Britain.

Hello to Björn Lund, seismologist, who tests sensors for the monitoring of the deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark. You work as part of the Swedish National Seismic Networ...

A collaboration will investigate if newly patented high-transparency solar cells from the startup company Peafowl Solar Power can power dynamic glass from ChromoGenics. Both companies derive from r...

Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This led researchers at Uppsala University to conclude that this top predat...

On Thursday 7 February, it will again be time for the Celsius-Linnaeus lectures and following symposium. Two of the world’s top researchers will be coming to the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala Univ...

New, unexpected consequences of climate change keep presenting themselves. A new study from Uppsala University and SLU shows that a decreased snow cover on frozen lakes in boreal forests may inhibi...

Around 56 million years ago, global temperatures spiked. Researchers at Uppsala University and in the UK now show that a major explosive eruption from the Red Hills on the Isle of Skye may have bee...

When she completed her doctorate at the start of the 1990s, she was the thirteenth woman who had defended a dissertation in mathematics in Sweden. But even though there have been few women in math...