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  • Mobile banking led to a prize

    Published May 27, 2010

    A mobile application which makes it possible for the poorest people in the world to be able to carry out their banking matters directly in a mobile telephone - that was the solution the KTH students S...

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  • Car brakes just as big an environmental problem as studded tyres

    Published May 25, 2010

    You have just removed your winter studded tyres. It is too early for you to breathe out, that is if you live in an urban environment. Research at KTH is able to show that the particles a vehicle's bra...

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  • Making major investments in patient safety

    Published May 21, 2010

    The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare estimate that around 100,000 patients suffer from iatrogenic harm and approximately 3,000 people die every year due to incorrect treatment or through lack of ca...

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  • Hammarby Sjöstad influences Norra Djurgårdsstaden

    Published May 20, 2010

    The inaugural ceremony for the residential properties in Norra Djurgårdsstaden is planned for the summer 2010 with people moving in by 2012. Sofie Pandis Iverot, doctoral student at Industrial Ecology...

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  • Soon road signs will become a memory

    Published May 04, 2010

    Most of KTH’s researchers form a part of an extensive European research project which is called Coopers, which aims to create intelligent roads and smart vehicles with the help of technology. Tests of...

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  • Colour images reveal breast cancer

    Published Apr 28, 2010

    New mammography technology which uses colour instead of greyscale images may mean that 50% of cancers missed today may be detected. With the use of a contrast medium, the technology can also show how ...

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  • Technology that will help firemen survive

    Published Apr 27, 2010

    The KTH researcher Isaac Skog has just completed his doctoral thesis on the subject of navigation systems. The idea is to find a cheap and simple solution which can be used in the future by emergency ...

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  • Degree project at Spotify receives award

    Published Apr 21, 2010

    Erik Bernhardsson is to receive a prize from the Swedish Association of Scientists for best degree project which was carried out at KTH in cooperation with the company Spotify. He developed a service ...

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  • Crystal ball will reveal the secrets of the atomic nucleus

    Published Apr 19, 2010

    Today the AGATA project is being started, a major international research collaboration where hundreds of researchers from 45 institutes and 13 European countries will be participating. KTH has had a ...

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  • The glass ceiling stopping female professors has been broken

    Published Apr 16, 2010

    Over the past two years, the number of female professors at KTH has doubled. So says Gustav Amberg, vice president of faculty renewal and equality at KTH. The medicine which will make university a mor...

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  • The face in your mobile will save fuel and the environment

    Published Apr 15, 2010

    20% improved fuel consumption and greener driving when the mobile displays a happy green face. KTH students’ mobile application will help drivers to change how they drive. What started as a degree pro...

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  • Buildings can become 30% more energy efficient

    Published Apr 14, 2010

    Buildings are the biggest source of energy losses in our society. They consume almost half of the world’s total energy needs. This is one of the problems which leading researchers throughout the entir...

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  • The mobile shows the way to climate-smart travelling

    Published Apr 06, 2010

    Mobile applications have considerable potential to make more efficient town traffic and make it more environmentally friendly. The Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH is about to develop the ...

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  • Irritating winged insect opens doors in Alzheimer research

    Published Mar 31, 2010

    A research group at the School of Biotechnology at KTH together with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and Cambridge University has taken a step forward in Alzheimer research....

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  • The major weather giants now facing a challenge

    Published Mar 26, 2010

    Vägverket and SMHI have had a monopoly on the supply of services for weather and accessibility on the country’s roads for a long time. This is now about to change. According to researchers at KTH, to...

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  • KTH tops the job and salary league

    Published Mar 25, 2010

    Educations at KTH hold seven places in the top 10 list for best starting salaries for students. This information has come from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s annual survey Högskolebarometer...

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  • They will take the Swedish record from Chalmers

    Published Mar 18, 2010

    In 2006, the KTH vehicle Agilis participated in a European competition called the Shell Eco Marathon and drove 500 km on one litre of petrol. By doing this, KTH set the Swedish record. Chalmers’ contr...

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  • New method to prevent heart attacks

    Published Mar 17, 2010

    Cardiovascular disease is by far the absolute most common national disease in Sweden and a little more than 26,000 people are treated every year at hospitals due to acute cardiac infarction, according...

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  • KTH student, this year’s leading top talent

    Published Mar 16, 2010

    For the eighth year in a row, the talent network Nova 100 has elected the person they consider to be the country’s leading top talent. This year, she is called Claudia Olsson and will receive the awar...

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  • No more threat against KTH

    Published Mar 14, 2010
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