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  • 150 times more effective medicine for critically ill children

    portrait photo Johan Rockberg
    Johan Rockberg, professor at the Division of Protein Technology at KTH. Photo: KTH
    Published Jan 10, 2024

    Every year, one in about 5 000 children is born with a rare gene mutation that affects the function of the cell's lysosome. This can lead to disability or premature death. Researchers at KTH have deve...

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  • Equipping Stockholm for extreme weather

    Rainy street in Stockholm.
    Flooding due to the extreme weather of the climate crisis costs Stockholm huge amounts of money every year. Photo: Pexels
    Published Jan 09, 2024

    KTH will assist the City of Stockholm in fortifying its defenses against extreme weather conditions. A new research project aims to identify strategies to mitigate the city's escalating costs associat...

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  • Self-driving vehicles - Are we ready?

    Self-driving bus on a busy street
    A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Dec 20, 2023

    With more autonomous vehicles on our roads, road deaths are predicted to decrease. At the same time, the risk of both increased emissions and seriously impaired public health rises. A new KTH study of...

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  • "The rivalry between the universities is serious"

    KTH Hockey's team The Royal Blue gathered at KTH's central campus.
    KTH Hockey's team The Royal Blue gathered at KTH's central campus. Photo: KTH Hockey
    Published Dec 19, 2023

    KTH Hockey is part of the Swedish University Hockey League (SUHL), which in 2023 became part of the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation. The classic sports question "How does it feel?" goes to Isabella Viks...

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  • Student kicks off urban planning career with AI solution for cities

    Woman standing on roof of KTH architecture school, with city in background
    “I gained trust in myself to find new knowledge," says Linn Nordlund, who graduates this winter from the master's programme in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design.
    Published Dec 15, 2023

    Even before her winter graduation, Linn Nordlund has scored a big success in her chosen career of urban planning. Working in a local municipality, she developed an AI tool for digitalizing city planni...

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  • New engineering programme focuses on industry collaboration and collective intelligence

    people sitting around a table, and standing up. One man poiting at a screen.
    Parts of the team behind the new programme: Standing from left: Kenneth Duvefelt, Andrew Martin, Carina Brunn, Noureddine Khayi, and Bengt Wittgren. Sitting from left: Carina Kjörling, Anders Eliasson, and Gabriel Montgomery (project manager for TINTE in Future Education). Image: Private.
    Published Dec 12, 2023

    KTH launches a new Bachelor of Science in Engineering programme called Industrial Engineering. With admissions starting in the autumn of 2024, a guiding principle throughout the programme will be to c...

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  • In the mind of a stubborn visionary

    Portrait of Mathias Uhlen.
    Within ten years, Mathias Uhlén believes and hopes that a small blood test every year can help us detect diseases such as cancer.
    Published Dec 12, 2023

    A blood test once a year will tell you if you have a certain type of cancer in your body. This increases the chances of early detection, cure and improved survival rates. This is researcher Mathias U...

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  • "Unleashing society's innovation capacity"

    Portrait Pontus Braunerhjelm
    “Sweden's economy is characterized by successful entrepreneurship and innovation. This is thanks to a reform agenda that has been gradually rolled out since the mid-1980s. The Swedish experience provides useful lessons for other nations, but now we need political measures to attract more talent,” says economics professor Pontus Braunerhjelm.
    Published Dec 11, 2023

    Keeping the entrepreneurial spirit in society requires new thinking in politics and business. So says KTH professor Pontus Braunerhjelm, who, with co-author Magnus Henrekson, has published a new book ...

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  • Deep tech - what is that?

    portrait photo Lisa Ericsson
    Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation. Photo: Håkan Lindgren.
    Published Dec 08, 2023

    Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation. Since five or six years ago, the term deep tech has been used more and more in different contexts - but what exactly is it?

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  • “There are no stupid questions”

    She instructs an ex-student how to build a tactile system
    Building tactile systems. Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander instructs Christoffer Eriksson, a recent graduate from Interactive Media Technology.
    Published Dec 07, 2023

    Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction. As a teacher and researcher, she contributes to the development of multisensory interfaces for collaboration and learning in heal...

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  • KTH climbs QS sustainability ranking

    Two male students talking with a female teacher.
    KTH jumps from 98th place to 58th in the latest QS World University Rankings on sustainability. Photo: M. Glans
    Published Dec 06, 2023

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology is now ranked 58th best university in the world in tackling environmental, social and governance issues, according to QS World University Rankings.

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  • Challenge of living without a car

    A box bike in front of a bicycle garage, next to it several people are listening to speakers.
    Electrically powered cargo bikes were used by citizen scientists to replace cars. The picture is from a start-up event organised by the research project (Photo: Magnus Atterfors).
    Published Dec 04, 2023

    How hard can it be to live a car-free everyday life? Quite problematic if you have to juggle work and leisure activities. This was demonstrated when a number of households in southern Stockholm were c...

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  • Swedish astronaut conducts KTH research in space

    international space station
    The International Space Station (ISS) where Sweden's next astronaut Marcus Wandt will live for two weeks. Photo: NASA
    Published Nov 30, 2023

    On January 10, 2024, Sweden's next astronaut Marcus Wandt is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station (ISS). During his space journey, he will be a medical test subject and perform exper...

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  • Super cinema for science opens its doors

    Illustration of the interior of the Technical Museum.
    In the centre of the Wisdome is the spherical wooden dome with the latest visualisation technology, where the audience is surrounded by 3D projections in 360 degrees (Photo: Tekniska museet).
    Published Nov 23, 2023

    Wisdome Stockholm – KTH have more than one finger in the pie in the new spectacular attraction at Tekniska Museet, aimed to display science and innovation in new ways. Here, the researchers are redefi...

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  • Researchers: Metal extraction in the Baltic Sea inappropriate

    A sandy beach with water and reeds
    ew research from KTH shows that metal extraction in the Baltic Sea is a bad idea from a sustainability perspective. Foto: Foto Irina Shishkina / Unsplash
    Published Nov 21, 2023

    As the demand for different metals such as silicon and cobalt increases, so does the need to extract them in different ways. One method is to 'vacuum the seabed'. New research from KTH Royal Institute...

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  • Challenging the speed of sound in NASA's wind tunnel

    Professor Ulf Ringertz explores aircraft behaviour under and above the speed of sound in NASA's Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT). His team has built a generic fighter aircraft model based on the characteristics of the Gripen JAS 39.
    Published Nov 20, 2023

    A collaboration between KTH and NASA is taking aeronautical research to new heights. The project is an important contribution to aviation safety and underlines the importance of international partners...

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  • Newsmakers at KTH – November 2023

    Portraits of researchers
    Published Nov 16, 2023

    Who 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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  • "We Swedes need to get our house in order"

    Flooded car park with parked cars.
    Floods in Sweden are causing more and more damage. The picture shows an incident in Hallsberg in August this year (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Nov 10, 2023

    Embankments and motorways collapse. Damage from extreme weather events is getting worse while knowledge of how to protect ourselves from them is lagging behind. Johan Silfwerbrand, professor in concre...

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  • KTH researchers receive ERC Synergy Grants

    Portraits of two researchers.
    Stefania Giacomello (left) and Danica Kragic Jensfelt. (Photo: Karin Nedler/SciLifeLab and KTH)
    Published Nov 08, 2023

    Stefania Giacomello and Danica Kragic Jensfelt part of international teams awarded two ERC Synergy Grants on intestinal diseases and transfer smells digitally

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  • KTH Railway Group's goal: Increase train traffic in Sweden

    Train on rail in landscape
    As the number of train journeys on several high-traffic railway lines through the country is reduced due to maintenance work, the KTH Railway Group is working to get more traffic on the available railways. “This can be done, for example, by increasing the speed of some freight trains to 140 km per hour, with the help of technological improvements, and by introducing new signaling systems, the trains will be able to follow each other more closely," says Sebastian Stichel, director of the KTH Rail
    Published Nov 06, 2023

    One of the goals of ongoing research projects within the KTH Railway Group is to densify train traffic on Sweden's existing railways. "The biggest problem for the country's train traffic is the limit...

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