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Saying and doing are two different things
18 januari 2022
COLUMN. While more and more people say Yes and Amen when you ask them about the importance of living in a more environmentally conscious and sustai...
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Internet of Things: “The technology is not the problem”
18 januari 2022
Uppsala University is currently leading a major collaborative project to make it easier to implement Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in health a...
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Strengthening societal responses to natural hazard events
18 januari 2022
Our societies generally need to enhance their preparedness for extreme natural hazard events, such as large forest fires, extreme weather events an...
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Temporary exhibition displaying Anders Celsius’ weather measurements
18 januari 2022
In the exhibition hall at Carolina Rediviva there is a temporary exhibition displaying Anders Celsius’ daily weather measurements, that started 300...
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New book gives insight into Rök Stone’s runes
14 januari 2022
The magnificent Rök Stone (Rökstenen), a runestone in the county of Östergötland, bears the world’s longest runic inscription: a message about deat...
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Previously unknown dinosaur habitat found in Poland
13 januari 2022
In summer 2021, in an opencast clay mine in Borkowice, Poland, researchers found what may be Europe’s largest array of dinosaur tracks. Several hun...
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"I wanted to examine and question my own opinions"
13 januari 2022
Former Archbishop Anders Wejryd, now about to defend your PhD thesis The Church of Sweden Aid that Disappeared at the Department of Theology: how d...
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Research sheds light on digitalisation in daily activities
10 januari 2022
As in the rest of society, the field of disability saw an increase in digitalisation during the pandemic. Several daily activities centres adapted ...
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"I want to revitalize research in clinical medical ethics"
04 januari 2022
Hello to Niklas Juth, from 1 February 2022 the new professor of clinical medical ethics, in a newly established chair. Why was it set up?
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Focus of financial reporting can influence business cycles
27 december 2021
Editorial choices can impact the amplitude of business cycles even if the information that is reported is correct. On reason is that the focus of t...
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New research environment with focus on diagnosis of dementia
22 december 2021
With a SEK 30 million grant from the Swedish Research Council, Per Andrén, Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, will lead an interdisciplinary res...
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Zebrafish and AI replace some mouse experiments
21 december 2021
Researchers at Uppsala University have used AI to develop a new method to study brain cancer. The method is based on transplanting tumour cells fro...
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Small measures can be a big help for children of mothers with depression
20 december 2021
Several new studies among Syrian refugee families in Turkey and families with infants in Sweden and Bhutan show that children of mothers in poor me...
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Hunt for protein led to skin disease discovery
19 december 2021
By searching for the protein TGM1 among patients with various autoimmune skin diseases, researchers have successfully identified a separate disease...
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The University’s weather observations are some of the oldest in the world
19 december 2021
Hi there Erik Sahlée, Senior Lecturer in meteorology and responsible for Uppsala University’s weather observations, which will become 300 years lon...
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Deliberate campaign behind racial biology in Uppsala
13 december 2021
A century ago, in 1921, the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology was established in Uppsala following a decision by the Swedish parliament (r...
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Racial biology archive open for posterity
10 december 2021
The archive from the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology is still kept at Uppsala — in the University Library, Carolina Rediviva. The collec...
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Protein biomarkers protect against disease development
10 december 2021
A comprehensive study from Uppsala University shows that several disease-associated protein biomarkers protect healthy individuals from developing ...
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Leadership – a key to achieving climate goals
10 december 2021
Everyone needs to be on board if climate goals are to be reached in time. Yet, the countries of the world continue debating how responsibility for ...
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“Climate change demands collaboration across borders”
10 december 2021
“As a researcher, I thrive when I can work in an environment that combines social sciences and the humanities with natural science. It opens the wa...