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  • KTH Wins Major Grants for Basic Research

    Published Nov 08, 2011

    The Swedish Research Council has granted SEK 177 million to 62 KTH research projects.

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  • KTH–Scania Co-operation Strengthens Swedish Industrial Competitiveness

    Published Nov 03, 2011

    KTH and the Swedish heavy vehicle manufacturer Scania will expand their competence exchange programme, enhancing co-operation aimed at strengthening KTH research and education while improving Scania's...

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  • Hackers Take on the Planet

    Green Hackathon
    Published Nov 01, 2011

    The two top entries in the first Stockholm Green Hackathon, held over the weekend of October 21st and 22nd in the R1 Reactor Hall, show gamers and Web users how everyday activities contribute to carbo...

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  • Getting the Details: Images of Cancer

    Published Oct 25, 2011

    Studies of specialised proteins by KTH researcher Helena Wållberg may have important implications for the future of cancer diagnostics. Her work is intended to allow doctors to one day distinguish tum...

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  • Honorary Doctorates Named

    Published Oct 10, 2011

    KTH has announced the recipients of honorary doctorates for 2011: —Professor Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland. —Professor Jean M.J. Fréchet,, University of California Berkeley, USA. ...

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  • Unleashing the power of green data

    Published Oct 06, 2011

    Footprinted.org is working to give sustainability decision-makers access to open environmental impact data.

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  • Road and Rail Research Initiative Launched

    Published Oct 04, 2011

    In a bid to improve future transportation capacity and safety in Sweden, KTH has joined the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the National Road and Transport Research Institute (Stat...

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  • “Using your phone in the car cuts costs and pollution – and it can save lives”

    Published Sep 16, 2011

    Peter Händel wants you to make your mobile phone a part of the car’s dashboard. The KTH Professor of Signal Processing has helped create a new mobile application for safer and more efficient driving. ...

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  • Charting the Stone Age spread of dingoes and domesticated dogs

    Published Sep 12, 2011

    The odyssey of dogs and dingoes from China to Polynesia and Australia can now be mapped. KTH genetic researchers Peter Savolainen and Mattias Oskarsson have presented a new study showing how the domes...

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  • KTH Enters Strategic Partnership with University of Illinois

    Published Sep 09, 2011

    The chief executives of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, have formally announced a long-term strategic alliance desig...

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  • Record KTH donation to support advanced medical imaging

    Published Sep 08, 2011

    A major private donation to KTH—one of the largest in the university’s history—will be devoted to development of a new centre for high technology medical imaging.

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  • KTH Great Prize awarded to MAX-lab’s Mikael Eriksson

    Published Sep 07, 2011

    Professor Mikael Eriksson, a driving force behind the MAX-lab research laboratory in Lund is this year’s recipient of the KTH Great Prize. The laboratory conducts experiments considered by many to bor...

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  • A new age of outdoor lighting

    Published Sep 05, 2011

    Jan Ejhed, Sweden's only professor of lighting design and director of Ljuslaboratoriet (the Lighting Laboratory) at KTH, wants to see some changes in street lighting.

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  • KTH Students Win Engineering Gold and Bronze

    Published Aug 30, 2011

    The European BEST Engineering Competition in Istanbul awarded first and third place prizes to two teams representing KTH.

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  • Wrinkled surface for faster boiling

    Published Aug 26, 2011

    KTH researchers have developed a new surface coating that can substantially cut energy consumption by heat pumps and cooling devices.

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  • Green construction cuts lifecycle costs

    Published Aug 16, 2011

    A new doctoral dissertation from KTH shows that the increased costs of environmentally friendly construction are recouped after five years, providing direct savings for the rest of the building’s lif...

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  • The simulator which will ensure the supply of electricity to Sweden

    Published Jul 13, 2011

    In the aftermath of the storm Gudrun, it was estimated that 730,000 Swedish electricity customers were without electricity when around 30,000 km of electric cables were damaged, of which, nine per cen...

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  • Baltic flora of bacterial plankton mapped out

    Published Jun 23, 2011

    Using advanced DNA sequencing technology, researchers at KTH in an international research collaboration have created a three dimensional map of the distribution of thousands of bacterial plankton spec...

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  • Touchpads can be used for patient information

    Published Jun 22, 2011

    When a cancer has been diagnosed, surgery is often urgently required. To quickly get an overview of the information available about a patient, it is not always adequate with case records and verbal co...

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  • More effective anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-infected

    Published Jun 16, 2011

    Improved retroviral drugs, new super-efficient cleansing agent and new plastics. This could be the result of a KTH student’s research developments.

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