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When packaging became a competitive edge
Published Nov 18, 2009Packaging in the future will be based on a hybrid between silicon technology and printing electronics. With inbuilt intelligence it will be possible to do much more than just encapsulate a product and...
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Pilots live several years longer than the average Swede
Published Nov 17, 2009A new Swedish study from KTH, Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca shows that pilots live considerably longer than the average Swede. It is believed that it is because of the physical demands made on...
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Nuclear energy and robots, victors at KTH
Published Nov 16, 2009The Swedish Research Council has now made a decision on a major call for contributions in natural and engineering science. 67 researchers at KTH will share a total of SEK 216 million over the next fou...
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Plastic bus reduces fuel costs by 5%
Published Nov 11, 2009A normal motor coach weighs around 18 tonnes. By using fibre-reinforced plastic in the bodywork instead of steel, the weight may be reduced by one tonne. This results in reduced fuel consumption and a...
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KTH analyses equality
Published Nov 10, 2009KTH has received SEK 1.7 million to investigate the connection between gender and the actual work situation at the faculty. This is one of a total of 19 projects that has been awarded a government gra...
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Fair wind for wind power in Sweden
Published Nov 09, 2009Today, wind power production in our country is the equivalent of 2 TWh per year. New research at KTH shows that an increase of 15 times as much wind power is quite feasible.
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Einstein is safe
Published Nov 06, 2009An international research team with researchers from KTH and Stockholm University have been able to establish that the speed of light through space is exactly the same at both high and low energy leve...
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Accurate pharmaceutical balloons will cure cancer
Published Nov 03, 2009In the future, contrast fluid used with x-rays will be able to transport medicine. This will mean that medicine will be able to reach the exact spot in the body, for example a diseased organ, with con...
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KTH alumni receive award for Turbo-3G, successful worldwide
Published Oct 27, 2009Being a doctoral candidate at KTH can lead to a lot, such as an exciting job. Or to SEK 300,000 when you receive the distinction awarded jointly by Vinnova and Ny Teknik magazine. Stefan Parkvall and ...
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Road tolls to improve
Published Oct 26, 2009Certain sections of the population that are dependent on their cars are being hit hard by congestion charges when making trips that do not have a significant impact on congestion. Nor are congestion ...
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No Spotify without KTH
Published Oct 21, 2009Eighty percent of the star developers at Spotify are former KTH students/researchers/employees . This is not surprising, says Fredrik Niemelä, doctoral student at KTH and employed by one of Sweden’s h...
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How pregnant singers can avoid voice problems
Published Oct 20, 2009Many singers have noticed that when pregnant, it feels different when they sing. And here is the explanation. Research at KTH provides a clear indication that when you are pregnant, your hormones have...
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Sudden fall in prices for image of your genetic make-up
Published Oct 16, 2009In a few years time, mapping a person’s genome may cost SEK 5,000. This can be compared with today’s cost of SEK 250,000 and the same mapping just a few years ago, cost around SEK 10 million. The low ...
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KTH best at programming in the Nordic region
Published Oct 15, 2009After a five hour long and exhausting struggle in advanced code breaking, KTH took the lead and came home the victor. According to the winning team’s coach Fredrik Niemelä, victory in the Nordic Progr...
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Immense savings to be made in convenience goods trade
Published Oct 09, 2009Every year in Europe alone, fruit and vegetables to a value of an incredible SEK 100 billion perish. Successful experiments which the research centre iPack has carried out together with Fresh Services...
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Radioactive terminal storage is being corroded away
Published Oct 08, 2009Researchers at KTH have discovered that the copper capsules which Swedish radioactive waste will be placed in, can corrode far too quickly. Instead of the estimated service life of 100,000 years, the ...
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Smart packagings - readily available soon
Published Oct 07, 2009The research centre iPacks packaging technology has been nominated as Sweden’s next billion crown export company. New cooperation with trade and industry, which means that manufacturing costs can be h...
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Riding helmet developed by KTH reaches the market
Published Oct 06, 200915 years of research at KTH and Karolinska Institutet lie behind the so-called MIPS helmet. We are now expecting the riding helmet to be released to consumers, something the equine industry is very ex...
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Nine worst environmental threats mapped
Published Sep 29, 2009The earth is facing nine serious threats. If these are not taken seriously it may all end in an environmental disaster. This according to a KTH researcher who, together with an international group of ...
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Poor water purification in Antarctica
Published Sep 25, 2009The waste water from research stations in Antarctica is released straight out into the sensitive outdoor environment. More than half of the 71 research stations surveyed have no form of water treatmen...
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