Skip to main content
To KTH's start page

News archive

  • Pandemic leads student to revisit first love: art

    Portrait of Nikita Patil
    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, 2021

    Coping with the isolation and anxiety of the pandemic has led Nikita Patil back to her first love – making art.

    Read the article

  • New innovation award celebrates entrepreneurs who have taken on big challenges

    Portrait pictures of Daniel Ek and Mathias Uhlén.
    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, 2021

    Creativity, 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...

    Read the article

  • Crowdfunded women better at reaching funding goals

    Keyboard, mobile screen and a pair of hands.
    . 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, 2021

    Backed 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...

    Read the article

  • Devices could become even smaller, more powerful with method for integrating 2D materials

    Picture of a wearable sensor
    If we could shrink semiconductors even further, a whole new silicon revolution would follow. Photo: AB
    Published Feb 10, 2021

    If 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...

    Read the article

  • EU emissions mapping study led by KTH

    Cars emitting fumes in trafic
    KTH is leading research to map emissions of nanoparticles from roadways, railways and sea ports. (Photo: Berit Roald / NTB / TT)
    Published Feb 04, 2021

    A 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...

    Read the article

  • “Water is a matter of life or death for humanity”

    water in glass
    Published Feb 02, 2021

    Saving 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. “...

    Read the article

  • Brush that loosens cells in cysts could become weapon against pancreatic cancer

    The model is a transparent orb and the loop brush is visible inside.
    A model of a cyst that was used to test the wire brush. Photo: courtesy of Filipe Marques
    Published Jan 27, 2021

    In 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...

    Read the article

  • Wave energy benefits from the mistakes of wind power

    Buoy on the high seas.
    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, 2021

    Is 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.

    Read the article

  • Investment in sustainable financial markets led by KTH

    A person checking the stock market prices at Nasdaq Stockholm.
    Nasdaq Stockholm, Stockholm Stock Exchange. Photo: Thomas Karlsson / DN / TT
    Published Jan 26, 2021

    The 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...

    Read the article

  • ICT studies led to engineering job in online financial services

    Portrait picture of Louis Cameron Booth.
    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, 2021

    Four 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...

    Read the article

  • Optical 3D microscopy can enable more effective diagnosis of kidney diseases

    Filtration structure in kidney through 3D microscopy
    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, 2021

    A 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...

    Read the article

  • Digital celebration for students who remained over the holidays

    Graphic shows representations of four digital activities held during the break
    The invitation sent out to students remaining in Stockholm over the holidays.
    Published Jan 15, 2021

    For 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...

    Read the article

  • Dora inspires girls to learn to code

    Profile picture of Dora Palfi.
    Dora Palfi is CEO of start-up Imagilabs that wants more girls to become interested in coding.
    Published Jan 14, 2021

    Four 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...

    Read the article

  • Brain cell molecules shown in first-ever nanoscale 3D images of living cells

    The researchers generated this 3D image of a living mitochondria from the hippocampal region
    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, 2021

    A 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.

    Read the article

  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Dec 21, 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...

    Read the article

  • What will happen when art and music are increasingly created by AI?

    Photo of a painting depicting a half-figured person.
    The portrait painting “Edmond de Belamy” is seen as a breakthrough for AI created art (image is cropped). (Photo: Obvious)
    Published Dec 18, 2020

    Our computers are taking over a larger part of the creative effort that goes into creating art, articles and music. This brings with it a number of new challenges and also poses ethical, financial, cu...

    Read the article

  • Urinary tract infection self-test more accurate with digital bacterial culturing

    a close-up view of the test strip
    A close-up look at the digital bioassay test strip developed at KTH. (Photo: Emre Iseri)
    Published Dec 14, 2020

    Soon you will be able to perform a bacterial culture at home to test for urinary tract infection (UTI), with clinical-level results.

    Read the article

  • X-ray technology from KTH goes global

    Two researchers, Mats Danielsson and Moa Yveborg, look in through a computer tomograph.
    Mats Danielsson, Professor and CEO of Prismatic, and Moa Yveborg, Project Manager and who defended her thesis within the Physics of Medical Imaging at KTH, are members of the research group that has developed an advanced detector for computed tomography. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren)
    Published Dec 10, 2020

    World-leading X-ray technology from KTH as the global standard within healthcare. This is the likely result of GE Healthcare acquiring Physics Professor Mats Danielsson’s company that has developed th...

    Read the article

  • Two KTH researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants

    Portrait pictures of Ilaria Testa and Jens Bardarson.
    Ilaria Testa and Jens Bardarson each receive funding from ERC for their projects InSpIRe and LOCFRONT.
    Published Dec 09, 2020

    The European Research Council (ERC) today published the results of the 2020 call for proposals for ERC Consolidator Grants. Of the 327 researchers who received grants – 14 of whom come from Sweden – t...

    Read the article

  • Study identifies new potential covid treatments

    A portable COVID-19 testing site in Uppsala, Sweden. (Photo: David Callahan)
    A new study identified a number of as yet untested treatments for COVID-19. Pictured: a COVID-19 testing site in Uppsala, Sweden. (photo: David Callahan)
    Published Dec 08, 2020

    A virtual screening of the DrugBank database has identified a variety of as yet unexplored ways to attack SARS-CoV-2, even as it mutates. The study identified drugs and possible cocktails that are sho...

    Read the article