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Handbook offers guidance for faster climate transition
Frauke Urban, editor of a new handbook on the climate crisis, calls for a climate policy that keeps pace with climate science (Photo: Christer Gummeson). Published Feb 06, 2024The technology exists to tackle the climate crisis, but the political will lags behind. This is one of the messages in the new handbook, Climate Change and Technology, on one of the major issues of ou...
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Excuses we make for harming the climate
'You can fly if you are a vegetarian' is an example of 'budgeting', imagining a climate account where actions are weighed against each other. Photo: Syda Productions /Mostphotos Published Jan 30, 2024How do we excuse our own climate damaging actions? KTH Professor Nina Wormbs’ research project received media attention even before it started. “As a researcher, I have never seen such great interest ...
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Newsmakers at KTH - January 2024
Published Jan 23, 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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AI can detect infection before it’s too late
AI records babies' health data and gives doctors early signals when a risky infection is about to break out. "Small, premature babies are particularly vulnerable to injury if infection treatment cannot be started in time," says Saikat Chatterjee, principal supervisor of a research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology that is collaborating with Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in the project 'Explainable Machine Learning for Early Warning Systems'. Published Jan 18, 2024Artificial intelligence can detect an infection as early as 24 hours before healthcare providers see signs of it. "Since there are often no early clear symptoms of infection, sensor technology can sav...
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Low office presence has far-reaching effects on organizations
Published Jan 18, 2024A new study examining office work in the aftermath of the pandemic reveals major differences in how much employees are coming in to the office. For example, half of the organizations in the study do n...
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Tax effective in reducing emissions
The carbon tax is working as intended but may need to be complemented by state aid for some companies, says Christian Thomann, researcher in industrial technology (Photo: Christer Gummeson). Published Jan 17, 2024The climate tax works. Without it, emissions from industry would be much higher. But there is more to be done to further reduce emissions, according to a study from KTH.
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Material science advance could lead to airplanes that optimize their shape in flight
Clockwise from top left, a blob of paraffin in four stages of becoming two. The images were taken in a demonstration of the technique that could enable autonomous transformation of objects and materials. Published Jan 16, 2024Materials and objects could take on different shapes by themselves through a method developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Breakthrough tests showed how microscale melting and cooling of a wi...
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KTH part of major Swedish investment in materials research
The investment aims to promote and activate a transition to a sustainable society while advancing the scientific frontier in materials science. Photo: Adam Af Ekenstam Published Jan 12, 2024Three research platforms from KTH Royal Institute of Technology are part of a significant investment in materials research for sustainability in Sweden. The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for...
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New fee procedures allow more people to use KTH's laboratories
The purpose of charging fees for external use of KTH's research infrastructures is to increase the use of KTH's valuable labs and equipment. The university will have greater opportunities to make laboratories and research infrastructures available to companies, organizations and other authorities. Published Jan 12, 2024The government's new “Ordinance on fees for research infrastructures” will apply at KTH starting spring semester of 2024. This means that as of January 1, 2024, KTH's research infrastructures can char...
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KTH creates cloud services that strengthen Europe's technological independence
The OpenCUBE project, led by KTH together with a consortium of researchers in Europe, will create a cloud system that manages and stores large amounts of data. Photo: Unsplashed Published Jan 11, 2024The OpenCUBE project is part of the European Chips Act, a strategy to make Europe more competitive in the semiconductor industry. “It means that we are creating independence from both the US and C...
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150 times more effective medicine for critically ill children
Johan Rockberg, professor at the Division of Protein Technology at KTH. Photo: KTH Published Jan 10, 2024Every 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
Flooding due to the extreme weather of the climate crisis costs Stockholm huge amounts of money every year. Photo: Pexels Published Jan 09, 2024KTH 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?
A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Dec 20, 2023With 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. Photo: KTH Hockey Published Dec 19, 2023KTH 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
“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, 2023Even 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
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, 2023KTH 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
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, 2023A 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"
“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, 2023Keeping 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?
Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation. Photo: Håkan Lindgren. Published Dec 08, 2023Lisa 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”
Building tactile systems. Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander instructs Christoffer Eriksson, a recent graduate from Interactive Media Technology. Published Dec 07, 2023Eva-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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