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  • Battery low? Give your mobile some water

    Published Apr 19, 2013

    A power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest faucet, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging device.

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  • Battery low? Give your mobile some water

    Published Apr 18, 2013

    A power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest faucet, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging device.

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  • Cheap and quick HIV testing made possible with DVD scanners

    Published Apr 17, 2013

    Video streaming and USB sticks have rendered DVD players are all but obsolete. But their cheap optics may find a new life in a cost-effective and speedy technique for on-the-spot HIV/AIDS testing and ...

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  • E-health made easier – and more comfortable

    Published Apr 16, 2013

    The future of health care could be found in a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that collects vital information. The Bio-patch sensor developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is inexpen...

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  • Students see promise in technology's convergence with performing arts

    Published Apr 11, 2013

    While an American audience watches this weekend's encore performance of the world’s first crowdsourced ballet, a pair of undergraduate students halfway around the globe are paying even closer attentio...

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  • Astronaut’s radiation study will be critical for Mars mission

    Published Apr 09, 2013

    As space exploration inches closer to Mars, research into space radiation will become increasingly critical, says ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who was introduced yesterday as the new head of the ...

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  • The machine that can paint your feelings

    Published Apr 08, 2013

    Are you feeling excited? Metaphone is a machine that captures your emotions and paints an image that expresses them. The use of biodata to interact with technology and to facilitate communication betw...

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  • KTH duo realizing vision for Russian tech centre

    Published Apr 03, 2013

    They regularly shuttle between meetings in Boston and Moscow, and stay in constant contact with teams on both sides of the Atlantic; but the pay-off for Mats Hanson and Kristina Edström is seeing a ne...

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  • The sound of innovation

    Published Mar 28, 2013

    As students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, their aspirations may have been "slightly delusional"; but today Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss oversee a Web start-up – SoundCloud – that reaches...

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  • U.S. manufacturers rank 3D printing innovation among top 10

    Published Mar 27, 2013

    Nano-scale 3D printing research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has been named one of 10 innovations to watch by the U.S.-based Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

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  • Magnetic nano-droplet discovery presents opportunities for telecommunications

    Published Mar 20, 2013

    A team that includes researchers from KTH has successfully created a magnetic soliton – a spin torque-generated nano-droplet that could lead to technological innovation in such areas as mobile telecom...

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  • Cash prize for polymer pioneers

    Published Mar 15, 2013

    Mercene Labs has won the 2013 Ingemar Croon Award from KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Greenhouse Labs. The pioneering firm founded in 2012 is behind an advanced polymer solution with great potent...

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  • Making fuel from bacteria

    Published Mar 13, 2013

    In the search for the fuels of tomorrow, KTH researchers are finding inspiration in the sea. Not in offshore oil wells, but in the water where blue-green algae thrive.

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  • Tunnel vision: let there be light

    Published Mar 06, 2013

    For transportation authorities looking to reduce operation costs, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Or, in the case of Sweden, the light is inside the tunnel.

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  • Traceable nanoparticles may be the next weapon in cancer treatment

    Published Mar 04, 2013

    Small particles loaded with medicine could be a future weapon for cancer treatment. A recently-published study shows how nanoparticles can be formed to efficiently carry cancer drugs to tumor cells. A...

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  • A new look at urbanization's environmental impact

    Published Feb 28, 2013

    A research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology has developed a technique for quick, simple and cost-effective mapping of worldwide urban growth and its environmental impact.

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  • New wastewater treatment technique protects fish from antidepressants

    Published Feb 26, 2013

    Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a new technique to prevent pharmaceutical residues from entering waterways and harming wildlife.

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  • With robots, humans face ‘new society’

    Published Feb 22, 2013

    Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of funding for the Human Brain Project. Danica Kragic, a robotics researcher and computer scienc...

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  • Report exposes Pakistani e-waste recycling workers’ plight

    Published Feb 21, 2013

    A 6-year-old girl in a remote Pakistani village sits quietly in the family’s kitchen, breathing toxic fumes that drift from across the table where her father is burning a computer circuit board. The s...

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  • British Labour leader sees KTH Innovation as a “global model”

    Published Feb 20, 2013

    In an official visit on Tuesday to KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, British Labour Party leader Edward Miliband toured one of Europe’s most successful innovation centres, which he calle...

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