News on Science and Technology

In 2016, Uppsala University and NCC decided to explore the opportunities offered by increased collaboration, since when a number of rewarding proje...

Hello there Johannes Messinger, Professor at the Department of Chemistry who is working on a new method for producing fossil-free ammonia (NH3).

Age, injury or disease: regardless of the cause, there is a growing need for treatments to replace bone and other body parts. Researchers at Uppsal...

The Swedish Research Council has granted funding for Swedish and international research infrastructures of national interest. Five of the funded re...

The availability of prey and the ability to adapt to changing environments played key roles in the evolution of sharks. A new study, in which over ...

Professor Kristina Edström has been awarded the 2021 Björkén Prize, one of Uppsala University’s most prestigious scientific prizes for preeminent r...

Uppsala University’s Academic-Industry Meeting Day (AIMday) has launched a raft of successful investments in Big Science. “The meeting between indu...

The project Energy Researchers is now underway, offering pupils between the ages of 10 and 15 the opportunity to participate in real research. By i...

Hello to Per Alström, researcher at the Department of Ecology and Genetics. You’ve had a midge named after you. Congratulations! How come?

Hello to Erik Zackrisson, Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, whose research project consists in searching for...

Neighbourhoods and parts of society that are climate-smart are often quite expensive today. As a result, a distinction is made between those who ca...

Since 1 July 2021, lifelong learning has become an area prescribed by law in Sweden’s Higher Education Act. But work on this national task has been...

COLUMN. “It is often those who are socially or economically marginalised that are more vulnerable and experience the biggest impacts,” writes Gabri...

For Jacob Höglund, Professor of Animal Conservation Biology, there is no issue more important than the extinction of species and the fact that we a...

The University Library offers a wide range of open workshops, lectures and other events in the autumn semester. We present the autumn program below...

How the cell can mend broken DNA using another DNA copy as template has puzzled researchers for years. How is it possible to find the correct seque...

For Jenny Larsson, Uppsala University’s Alumnus of the Year 2021, interest in the environment arose early in life. As Managing Director of Hitachi ...

An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of t...

Females and males differ in many ways and yet they share the same genome. The only exception is the male Y chromosome. Using beetles as a study sys...

How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emissions in European cities. If we are to achieve our ...