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KTH student enhances technical preparatory year with new educational content
Published Sep 19, 2024Nora Dunder travelled to the U.S. for a summer internship at the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to KTH with new content for the "Mathematics for Preparatory Year II" course, part of ...
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Fewer chore disputes with students' new app
Published Sep 16, 2024It’s here. The mobile app that aims to reduce arguments over washing dishes, doing laundry, and vacuuming. It calculates who contributes the most around the house, in percentage terms. Then it’s up to...
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Better understanding of charging options for electric trucks
Published Sep 10, 2024When Noah Eriksson Tewolde Berhane arrived in Berkeley this summer for an eight-week internship, he expected to work on making electric vehicles up to 30 percent more energy-efficient as part of the N...
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Stronger eco-friendly asphalt from forest waste
Published Sep 06, 2024KTH researchers aim to make paved roads more sustainable by using the natural material lignin, a by-product of the wood and paper industry. “The new material will reduce the need for oil-based asphal...
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New initiative for foundation programme in the Stockholm area
Published Sep 03, 2024KTH will be offering a technical foundation year programme at learning centres in Norrtälje, Nynäshamn and Södertälje. "This is part of our continued commitment to the region. It's a way of offering ...
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ERC grants to develop medicines and sustainable materials
Published Sep 02, 2024One conducts basic research in organic chemistry, the other in fibre and polymer technology. Helena Lundberg and Tobias Bensefelt have been awarded ERC Starting Grants 2024 for projects in their respe...
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Newsmakers at KTH – August 2024
Published Aug 30, 2024Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...
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KTH Shares in €11.7 Million for Deep Tech
Published Aug 28, 2024The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme has awarded funding to several research projects, including four involving the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with topics ranging from fu...
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German exchange student arrives at KTH after bicycling 1,800 kilometres
Published Aug 27, 2024He’s the exchange student who just bicycled all the way from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Stockholm and KTH. In just under two weeks, he pedalled 1,800 kilometres and arrived in Stockholm 6 kilograms lighte...
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KTH research behind the hexagonal table tennis racket
Published Aug 26, 2024The eyes of the world were on the hexagonal table tennis racket when Truls Möregårdh won Olympic silver in 2024. Behind the initiative for the new design is KTH alum Andreas Zandrén, CEO of Stiga Spor...
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New strategic cooperation in materials technology
Published Aug 22, 2024KTH and Alleima AB have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly deepen cooperation in education, research and innovation, as well as in materials and chemical engineering.
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Method to separate microplastics from water could also speed up blood analyses
Published Aug 15, 2024Researchers demonstrated a way to speed up—and potentially scale up—the process for separating particles in fluids, which can be used for studying microplastics in drinking water or even analyzing can...
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Students' software would protect against counterfeit medicines
Published Aug 14, 2024Two students from KTH Royal Institute of Technology have invented a solution to tackle the problem of counterfeit and substandard medications, which account for nearly half a million deaths annually i...
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KTH Robot exploring the melting ice caps of northern Greenland
Published Aug 02, 2024The icebreaker Oden is on its way to the difficult-to-access waters and glaciers of northern Greenland. The polar expedition to the Arctic Ocean includes about 40 researchers, including a team from KT...
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New method against summer plague
Published Jul 03, 2024A new method to combat algal bloom has been developed at KTH and will be tested this summer in the waters off Klintehamn and Tofta on Gotland. "We will trawl up accumulations of cyanobacteria ...
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Jan Ellenberg appointed Director for SciLifeLab
Published Jun 28, 2024The SciLifeLab board has appointed Professor Jan Ellenberg as the new Director. Alongside this role, Professor Ellenberg will also be appointed as a Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Affiliated P...
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Will reduce emissions in cows farts
Published Jun 28, 2024KTH student Martin Blomberg and researchers have developed a new type of food additive that has the the potential to reduce methane emissions from cow burps and farts by about 90 per cent. The additiv...
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Tanzania is a model for a new educational initiative
Published Jun 26, 2024The need for new sustainable solutions to societal problems is great, and time is short. In a new initiative, the Maggan Hub, KTH students get the chance to engage in complex societal challenges linke...
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Professor's tip: Discussion is the best route to lasting knowledge
Published Jun 24, 2024Those who Google Hedvig Kjellström will soon realise that her educational work extends far beyond KTH's seminar halls and Zoom rooms. You'll find her in morning sofas and radio studios, confidently ex...
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KTH and UC Berkeley students switch places for eight-week research internship
Published Jun 19, 2024A dozen students from Sweden and California switched places last week for summer research internships focused on digital transformation, kicking off a new exchange between KTH Royal Institute of Techn...
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