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Intense week for the Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
05 december 2022
Hello Hans Ellegren, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University and Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. How do you feel about your work involving the Nobel Priz...
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The Nobel laureates visit Uppsala
02 december 2022
Philosophical discussions, lectures on groundbreaking discoveries and the chance to see the celebrities of science in real life. Uppsala University is now inviting you to three days of Nobel lectur...
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Calendar created from winning weather images
02 december 2022
In connection with the Celsius jubilee in 2022, a weather photography competition started where a new winner image was chosen every month. The images have now been collected in a calendar for 2023,...
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Scientists: Madagascar’s unique biodiversity in grave danger
02 december 2022
Madagascar has an enormous biodiversity, with most of the plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth. But the rich life on the island is in grave danger and governments and environmental ...
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Old World flycatchers’ family tree mapped
24 november 2022
The European robin’s closest relatives are found in tropical Africa. The European robin is therefore not closely related to the Japanese robin, despite their close similarity in appearance. This is...
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Five researchers at Uppsala University among the most cited
23 november 2022
Five researchers from Uppsala University are on Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researchers” list, which covers the most cited researchers worldwide.
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Advanced biotechnology focus of new EU project
22 november 2022
Understanding how a specific molecule behaves during complex biological processes is a challenge facing biomedical research, despite major biotechnological progress made in recent years. A major ne...
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Several innovation companies from Uppsala University on prestigious list
15 november 2022
Each year, Sweden’s Ny Teknik magazine presents a list of the top 33 young tech companies in Sweden that are judged to be a leader of the future, and each year the innovative potential at Uppsala U...
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Agnes Wold to receive honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
09 november 2022
The faculties at Uppsala University have now decided who they want to award honorary doctorates to this year. In all, 24 honorary doctorates will be awarded. One of the recipients is Agnes Wold, Pr...
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IceCube neutrinos provide new view of a nearby galaxy
08 november 2022
For the first time, an international team of scientists has found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from a nearby galaxy. The galaxy, NGC 1068 (also known as Messier 77) is an active galaxy...
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Donation towards new advanced microscope and competence centre
07 november 2022
The entrepreneur Sverker Lerheden has donated SEK 7.5 million to Uppsala University in the name of his wife, Birgitta Sintring Lerheden. The money will be used to purchase an advanced microscope th...
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Nine new honorary doctors appointed at Faculty of Science and Technology
02 november 2022
The faculties at Uppsala University have now decided on the award of honorary doctorates for 2022. Among the nine new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science and Technology are researchers in pa...
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The energy crisis may lead to greater efficiency
31 oktober 2022
The energy crisis has the potential to spawn more active and flexible electricity consumers and thus a more efficient electricity market and use of the grid. That said, there are factors that may c...
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Nestling birds recognize their local song ‘dialect’
26 oktober 2022
A recent study, published in Current Biology, led by researchers at Stockholm University and Uppsala University, has shown that juvenile songbirds react to hearing the songs they will eventually pr...
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Artificial photosynthesis could generate new fossil-free fuels
25 oktober 2022
Sun, water and carbon dioxide interacting in artificial photosynthesis. According to researchers at Uppsala University, this could be the recipe for the fuels of tomorrow. But much research is need...
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Tackling nuclear threat through knowledge
19 oktober 2022
Since the war in Ukraine broke out, nuclear weapons have once again become a genuine threat to humanity. To promote nuclear disarmament, expertise is needed in both peace and conflict research and ...
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Broad collaboration on Gotland’s energy transition
13 oktober 2022
Gotland has been singled out by the government as a forerunner in the transition to renewable energy. The goal: to have an energy system based on renewable energy by 2040. And the efforts have real...
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Large predatory dinosaurs discovered in Skåne
13 oktober 2022
Roughly 200-million-year-old footprints of large predatory dinosaurs, along with the skeletons of other dinosaurs, animals and plant fossils, have been discovered in the Norra Albert clay pit in no...
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Collaborating to build museums in developing countries
06 oktober 2022
Many valuable fossils never become known to science. They either remain in the earth or find their way into private collections. These fossils could be a sustainable source of income and knowledge ...
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Björkén Prize goes to Marika Edoff and Nikolai Piskunov
06 oktober 2022
Marika Edoff, Professor in Solid State Electronics, and Nikolai Piskunov, Professor in Observational Astrophysics, are joint winners of the 2022 Björkén Prize, one of Uppsala University’s most pres...