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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

By taking soil samples and studying fungal DNA contained in them, Anna Rosling's research team is unearthing the diversity and distribution of a previously completely unknown group of fungi that th...

The Borgholm Model has received a lot of attention thanks to its good results in providing local care for the elderly and frail. The model, which centres around patient needs, is now being scientif...

Most researchers can only guess how animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago were built internally, given that internal organs disintegrate. However, researchers have now found extremel...

Uppsala University and SciLifeLab are participating in a major new EU-funded consortium: Biodiversity Genomics Europe, which involves using genomic methods to study the impact of humans on biodiver...

Following an exceptionally successful scientific expedition to Greenland, more than 200 kg of fossil material is on its way back to Uppsala. “The discoveries will revolutionize our understanding of...

Access to fresh water is absolutely vital to our survival. Without it, we would suffer from a lack of drinking water, fish to eat and the ability to irrigate fields. Lakes, rivers and ponds are als...

Researchers from Uppsala University and elsewhere have been studying the effect of rising temperatures on the lifespan of pollinating fig wasps. The findings show that the wasps lived much shorter ...

An EU-wide fuel tax cut of €0.20 per litre could increase oil profits in Russia by more than €8 million per day in the first one to three years, according to a modelling study published in Nature E...

Research has been carried out and supported for a long time in Uppsala, but not always as one of the university's primary tasks. During the 19th century, the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala wa...

Sverker C Jagers, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Collective Action Research at the University of Gothenburg, will hold Uppsala University's fifth Zennström Visiting P...

By pooling their knowledge of conservation genetics and orchid-growing, Linus Söderquist and Simon Hultby have developed a method to reintroduce endangered orchid species and strengthen their popul...

A major technology shift is happening in the workplace. What is the impact on the work environment when artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are introduced on a large scale? And what happens i...

New proteins, wild berries and experimental food production. Could this be the key to more sustainable food production? The FINEST innovation center is planning to investigate this as part of a fou...

An international team led by Uppsala University researchers has uncovered that eukaryotes (organisms with a cellular nucleus) have made hundreds of big leaps from sea to soil and freshwater habitat...