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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Nov 20, 2020

    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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  • "It's like the periodic table of the body"

    The proteins involved in narcolepsy are shown in this still from a 3D animation
    The proteins involved in narcolepsy are shown in this still from a 3D film produced by the Human Protein Atlas.
    Published Nov 19, 2020

    On the 20th anniversary of the Human Protein Atlas Project, KTH Professor Mathias Uhlén reflects on the journey of this massive database for understanding human biology and helping researchers develo...

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  • 'I never imagined working in the music industry'

    Nitin playing the  guitar during his master's presentation.
    Nitin Kulkarni using a guitar to demonstrate an audio processor during his master's thesis presentation. (Photo: Sharan Yagneswar)
    Published Nov 16, 2020

    For two master's students, the Embedded Systems programme at KTH opened up some unexpected doors.

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  • Science that ‘hits the spot’ for peace, sustainable development

    Preparing for planting in an irrigated field in Morocco, one of several countries that researchers
    Preparing for planting in an irrigated field in Morocco, one of several arid countries where researchers from KTH's division of Energy Systems work with local officials to help them balance the countries natural resources. (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat/Lydia Herrmann CC by 2.0)
    Published Nov 10, 2020

    On UN World Science Day for Peace and Sustainable Development, Francesco Fuso-Nerini reflects on the importance of scientific research to inform decision-making and international cooperation.

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  • Degree project takes student to front lines of COVID-19 battle

    Aashlesha Chekkala posing in an arcade of cherry trees in Stockholm.
    "I feel privileged that I get to tell my friends and family that the project I work on is in the direction of fighting a global pandemic." Photo: Courtesy of Aashlesha Chekkala
    Published Nov 09, 2020

    The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic became an unexpected opportunity for master's student Aashlesha Chekkala.

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  • Study identifies more genes that are likely behind psoriasis and eczema

    Nail displaying the characteristic pitting of psoriasis. Photo: Seenms/CC BY-SA 3.0
    Nail displaying the characteristic pitting of psoriasis. Photo: Seenms/CC BY-SA 3.0
    Published Oct 27, 2020

    A new study identified 17 new genes that could be targeted for treatment of psoriasis and eczema, two common hereditary skin diseases with no cure.

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  • Auctions increasingly important for economies

    Drawing of a gavel
    The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to two researchers who found new ways to buy and sell things at auctions. (Illustration: © Johan Jarnestad / The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    Published Oct 12, 2020

    The research cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics will continue to be used more in the future, according to researchers at KTH.

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  • Wheat gluten can be used to make sustainable diaper material

    A baby getting their diaper changed
    Most of the billions of diapers used each year are made with petroleum-based absorbent material. That could change with the development of new sustainable materials like the one recently reported by researchers at KTH.
    Published Oct 08, 2020

    More sustainable diapers are one possible use for a new bio-based material that researchers in Sweden are developing. The superabsorbent material is made with wheat gluten proteins from wheat starch p...

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  • "Chemistry prize is a result of great freedom for researchers"

    Illustration of the genetic scissors.  Picture of woman cutting in a DNA strand.
    This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of one of genetic engineering's sharpest tools: the CRISPR / Cas9 genetic scissors. Illustration: Johan Jarnestad / The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    Published Oct 07, 2020

    New groundbreaking discoveries require freedom to test unconventional ideas, in combination with a foundation of knowledge, and through systematic and patient research work over a long period of time....

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  • “Black holes are such strange objects”

    Shining in space, the Cignus X-1 black hole binary appears like a spherical burst of light
    The Cignus X-1 black hole binary is one of the objects that Mark Pearce's research group is studying. (Photo: NASA/CXC
    Published Oct 06, 2020

    The announcement of the shared Nobel Prize in Physics was greeted with excitement at the KTH Physics Department, where experimental physicist Mark Pearce has been investigating X-ray emission from the...

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  • Researchers follow Hannes Alfvén's path of discovery

    King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden presents the Nobel Prize in Physics to Hannes Alfvén in 1970.
    King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden presents the Nobel Prize in Physics to Hannes Alfvén in 1970. Photo: Nobel Prize Museum
    Published Oct 06, 2020

    On the 50th anniversary of Hannes Alfvén’s Nobel Physics Prize, researchers reflect on the KTH scientist’s contributions to our understanding of space, and the paths of discovery they continue to forg...

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  • Sewage analysis shows sharp increase in COVID 19 virus in Stockholm

    Published Oct 05, 2020

    The coronavirus is spreading again in Stockholm and surrounding suburbs, according to COVID 19 RNA measurements in local sewage, which are being conducted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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  • New initiative to build tomorrow’s society

    Three people, Matilda Ernkrans, Karl Henrik Johansson and Erik Ekudden are standing next to an indus
    Matilda Ernkrans, Minister of Research, tests an industrial robot during the inauguration of Digital Futures, together with Karl Henrik Johansson, professor (left) and Erik Ekudden, Chief Technology Officer at Ericsson . (Photo: Fredrik Persson)
    Published Oct 02, 2020

    Robot co-workers, self-driving cars and social carers – more and more smart solutions are becoming part of our lives. What do we want tomorrow’s society to look like? KTH has just inaugurated Digital ...

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  • New center focus on integrated science

    A laboratory image of a potato in section.
    A potato in section.
    Published Sep 30, 2020

    Meet Agneta Richter Dahlfors, director of a new interdisciplinary research centre with the focus on societal benefits, that was inaugurated on 30 September. What is AIMES?

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  • Study examines contact tracing apps' compliance with individual rights

    Man wearing a face mask is using his mobile phone in a shopping center.
    If aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, the apps will appeal to more users and get more downloads, researchers say.
    Published Sep 24, 2020

    Some of the COVID-19 contact tracing apps in use today fall short of meeting the UN's criteria for individual rights and fairness, a new study shows.

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  • Study shows what makes plant cell walls compress and stretch

    Three sealed containers containing gel in which hemicelluloses have been isolated for observation.
    Researchers added pure mannans and xylans separately to cellulose media in order to observe how they became integrated in the fibrillar network of plants.
    Published Sep 17, 2020

    Researchers have identified the individual mechanical functions of wood hemicelluloses in plant cell walls for the first time.

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  • Boliden CEO on the mining industry and the future

    Mikael Staffas sitting in a chair in front of a glass wall
    “Ever since the Bronze Age, metals have been fundamentally necessary for human social development. Today, we need metal to tackle the climate crisis. The mining industry is having a greater impact on society than ever before,” says Mikael Staffas
    Published Sep 14, 2020

    Staffas, CEO of Swedish mining company Boliden, describes the prejudices against the Swedish mining sector as a long, hard uphill struggle to overcome. “The fact is that we lead the world when it com...

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Sep 14, 2020

    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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  • Lightning fast implementation of alumnus´master´s thesis about smart charging of electric vehicles

    Jacob Dalton is sitting at his office in front of his computer, giving a thumb´s up.
    Jacob Dalton wrote a master´s thesis on smart charging of electric vehicles. The solution has been implemented by the electricity company Tibber, where he´s now employed. Photo: Tibber
    Published Sep 01, 2020

    Two years ago Jacob Dalton completed a master´s thesis proposing how household charging of electric vehicles can be used to stabilize the power grid. Now the KTH graduate’s idea has been introduced as...

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  • Bitcoin can grow in the wake of the crisis

    Bitcoin was created in 2009 to enable payments over the Internet directly between users without the involvement of third parties. (Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT)
    Published Aug 21, 2020

    Cryptocurrencies can get a boost in countries that have encountered an economic recession and inflation crises as a consequence of the pandemic. This is the view of economics researchers from KTH that...

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