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This year, the Rudbeck Medal is awarded to Professors Lena Claesson-Welsh, Emily Holmes, and Wang Yi, while the Linnaeus Medal is awarded to Professor Lars Lind.

Approximately one million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction – but what can we do about it? Uppsala University researcher Wijnand Boonstra has been elected to the multidiscipli...

Are there more effective ways to detect diseases in biological samples than the standard ones today? A new method developed at Uppsala University seems promising. Daniel Globisch, an associate prof...

Uppsala University now has its first student motor racing team – UPPström Racing! It includes students from no less than 11 different engineering and master’s programmes. In the course of three sem...

His calm and methodical way of explaining the most advanced cosmological concepts has made him much in demand for everything from lectures and debates to radio and TV programmes. After five books, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic had enormous consequences for our society. Not least, it had negative consequences for the hospitality and tourism industries, given the restrictions on our ability to travel....

As part of the Swedish Government’s initiative to develop skills to meet the challenge of climate change, nine Swedish higher education institutions have been granted funds to develop Massive Open ...

Imagine cheap nuclear power without any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste or greenhouse gas emissions. Fusion has been described as the solution to our future energy needs. The problem is that f...

Marije Poort, a PhD student at Uppsala University’s Campus Gotland, is focusing on sustainable destination development. Marije is exploring how people and economic activities such as tourism can le...

King Carl XVI Gustaf has decided to award H.M. The King's Medal to Hans Ellegren, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, and Lennart Elmevik, Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Languages.

A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria. The research team was planning to focus on a muc...

Uppsala-based battery company Altris AB was recently given the green light for funding to the tune of SEK 100 million. The company’s roots are at the Ångström Laboratory, where development of the i...

Earlier in May, the Beijer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was inaugurated in Building 10 of the Ångström Laboratory. The lab will focus its research on the applications of AI in the life scienc...

An international research team headed by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Aarhus University and Uppsala University has developed tiny particles that measure the oxygen co...

The official inauguration of Building 10 at the New Ångström Laboratory with ribbon cutting by Crown Princess Victoria was held on 13 May. “With its fantastic flexible classrooms and modern lab...

The expansion of the Ångström Laboratory is now complete and the new Ångström was officially opened by Crown Princess Victoria on 13 May. The intention, with various types of places to meet, art wo...

The exhibition Ångström Explanatorium opened on the first floor of Building 1 of the Ångström Laboratory on 4 May. The interactive stands were thoroughly tested by visitors to the premiere. “It was...

Anders Ajaxon Persson, a researcher in space technology at Uppsala University and co-founder of the company Fourth State Systems, is one of the ten innovative entrepreneurs in Sweden to be awarded ...

Uppsala University receives a grant of SEK 45 million for research on sustainable landscapes in the LAND-PATHS programme. The overarching aim is to develop more sustainable and integrated practises...

Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. With a new method, researchers from Uppsala University were able to pre...