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Robots can use eye contact to draw out reluctant participants in group
Researchers demonstrate the experimental setup they used to observe how group participants are prompted to speak up in an activity led by a robot. (Photo: Sarah Gillet) Published Mar 10, 2021Eye contact is a key to establishing a connection, and teachers use it often to encourage participation. But can a robot do this too? Can it draw a response simply by making “eye” contact, even with p...
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All KTH programmes on path to include equality and diversity education
For students, the new modules may be the most noticeable result of an equality and diversity agenda that has been picking up steam in recent years. Published Mar 08, 2021Gender equality and diversity perspectives in technology will have been introduced into the curriculum of 50 mandatory courses at all levels by the beginning of the 2021 autumn term, the KTH Equality ...
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Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips
Illustration of a controlled quantum circuit enabled by the reported heat-free switches. Credit: Lucas Schweickert Published Mar 03, 2021In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat. The soluti...
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Cancer research to gain from identification of 300 proteins
A montage of microscopic images that show the stages of the cell cycle, in which a single cell duplicates its DNA and eventually divides into two "daughter" cells. Staining shows the cell nucleus in blue, and the microtubules in red. Published Feb 24, 2021With the hope of contributing to the fight against cancer, researchers from KTH have identified and mapped 300 proteins that regulate the cell division process.
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Brain training is made visible through a headset
With a headset and app, users can see their own brain signals, or neurons, and influence them in various games via focused thinking. On the display you can see how the body pumps blood to the areas of the brain being trained. The technology is known as neurofeedback and up to now, has primarily been used within the care sector and by company executives and sports stars to deal with stress, anxiety, ADHD, sleeping problems, migraines, memory difficulties and similar disorders. Published Feb 23, 2021Training your brain with the aid of a headset with infrared light and an app is pure physical exercise for your brain, claims KTH alumnus Rickard Eklöf. “Except it is a training session where you don...
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KTH initiative becomes a part of a prestigious consortium
Published Feb 18, 2021KTH and the Digital Futures venture have joined the C3.ai DTI consortium, it was announced today. Karl Henrik Johansson, professor at KTH and director of Digital Futures, explains what this means for ...
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Pandemic leads student to revisit first love: art
Nikita Patil, pictured last fall, explains how the pandemic has led her back to exploring her love of painting and drawing (photo: David Callahan). Published Feb 18, 2021Coping with the isolation and anxiety of the pandemic has led Nikita Patil back to her first love – making art.
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New innovation award celebrates entrepreneurs who have taken on big challenges
Daniel Ek is one of Sweden’s most influential entrepreneurs. Mathias Uhlén has successfully worked with industrial applications of his research. Photo: Spotify/ Alessandro Bellini. Published Feb 15, 2021Creativity, grit and courage are at the center of a new innovation award that KTH Royal Institute of Technology is launching today. The aim of the award is to celebrate people from KTH who, with their...
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Crowdfunded women better at reaching funding goals
. In crowdfunding, as opposed to business angels, venture capital funds, and banks, the gender balance is more equal among the backers on Kickstarter. (Photo: Unsplash) Published Feb 12, 2021Backed up by women, female entrepreneurs at crowdfunding platforms reach their funding goals more often than men. Hadar Gafni at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management has mapped the ge...
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Devices could become even smaller, more powerful with method for integrating 2D materials
If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. Photo: AB Published Feb 10, 2021If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. But because that’s impossible, the next best hope is integrating semiconductors with 2D atomically-thin mat...
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EU emissions mapping study led by KTH
KTH is leading research to map emissions of nanoparticles from roadways, railways and sea ports. (Photo: Berit Roald / NTB / TT) Published Feb 04, 2021A map detailing where nanoparticle emissions can be found in European cities is being jointly produced in four countries, with KTH Royal Institute of Technology taking the lead. The project, which wil...
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“Water is a matter of life or death for humanity”
Published Feb 02, 2021Saving water, tracing Covid-19, growing food in the sea and tracking down leaks in water pipes. These are a few of the WaterCentre@KTH projects aimed at securing future access to water for society. “...
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Brush that loosens cells in cysts could become weapon against pancreatic cancer
A model of a cyst that was used to test the wire brush. Photo: courtesy of Filipe Marques Published Jan 27, 2021In a potential step forward for early pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a miniaturised brush was successfully tested as a possible technique for loosening cells from the walls of pancreatic cysts. If prove...
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Wave energy benefits from the mistakes of wind power
Researchers and companies hope and believe in the possibilities of extracting electricity from the kinetic energy of waves in seas and lakes. (Photo: Cor-Power) Published Jan 27, 2021Is wave energy the new star of renewables? The potential is great and a research team at KTH works towards a faster development for harvesting the powers of the seas.
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Investment in sustainable financial markets led by KTH
Nasdaq Stockholm, Stockholm Stock Exchange. Photo: Thomas Karlsson / DN / TT Published Jan 26, 2021The Sustainable Finance Lab consortium has been awarded financing of 47 million Swedish crowns (€4.7 million) over five years from Vinnova, with the option of a further five-year extension. Led by KTH...
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ICT studies led to engineering job in online financial services
Louis Cameron Booth studied the International bachelor´s programme Information and Communication Technology at KTH. He is now a software developer at Klarna. Published Jan 25, 2021Four years ago he moved from London to Stockholm to study for a bachelor´s degree in Information and Communication Technology at KTH. Louis Cameron Booth now works as a software engineer at global pay...
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Optical 3D microscopy can enable more effective diagnosis of kidney diseases
The image shows a capillary in the kidney with the podocyte cells in green, and the filtration structure podocyte foot processes in purple. The podocyte foot processes play an important role in the kidney’s ability to filter blood and make urine. As the dimensions of the structures are tiny (200-500 nanometres), it was previously only possible to image them with an electron microscope, but with the KTH researchers’ new protocol, the structures can be imaged in an easier way. Published Jan 18, 2021A new method developed by KTH researchers for advanced 3D sample preparation and 3D microscopy can make diagnosing kidney diseases more effective. “A single tissue sample provides high resolution ima...
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Digital celebration for students who remained over the holidays
The invitation sent out to students remaining in Stockholm over the holidays. Published Jan 15, 2021For many international students, the pandemic this winter ensured that there was no going home for the holidays, so a group students from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science pull...
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Dora inspires girls to learn to code
Dora Palfi is CEO of start-up Imagilabs that wants more girls to become interested in coding. Published Jan 14, 2021Four years ago, Dora Palfi was reunited with her Romanian friend Beatrice Ionascu at KTH, whom she had got to know when they were both undergraduates in Abu Dhabi. That became the launch pad for their...
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Brain cell molecules shown in first-ever nanoscale 3D images of living cells
The researchers generated this 3D image of living mitochondria, left, in a human cell. Their new method enables disentangling of a mitochondrial network and optically “slicing” through an organelle, capturing multiple images that can be reconstructed in 3D. In this case, the rendering on the right reveals a small, round mitochondrion with a longer, larger one connect to each other. Published Jan 11, 2021A new fluorescence microscopy technique has produced the world’s first nanoscale 3D images of molecules in a whole, living cell, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology reported today.
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