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Seaweed could be set to fashion the future
Seaweed is a raw material that could form the basis of future clothing. Here, a seaweed bed in Iceland. Published Oct 23, 2024How about a dress or trousers made from seaweed? A Nordic research and collaboration project is looking at how one of the ocean's raw materials can be used to make the fashion industry more sustainabl...
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3D printing method could improve micro energy storage
A close up of 3D-printed Si-rich glass micro-supercapacitors on silicon substrates, magnified by 4720 times. Published Oct 18, 2024One key to making portable devices more compact and energy efficient lies in the precise nanoscale form of energy-storing capacitors. Researchers from Micro and Nanosystems at KTH report they've crack...
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Get ready – AI could be your next recruiter
Published Oct 16, 2024Maybe it’s worth asking AI what your next job application should look like. More and more companies are starting to use AI to handle the initial stages of recruitment.
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Newsmakers at KTH – October 2024
Top from left: Léa Braud, Johan Rockberg, Kaspar Norberg. Below: Nicolai Kristersson Campbell, Georgia Destouni, Sverker Sörlin. Published Oct 16, 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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Research on lignin and superconductors receives Wallenberg grant
KTH professors Egor Babaev, Minna Hakkarainen and Oscar Tjernberg are recipients of project grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for their basic research. Photo: KTH Published Oct 14, 2024What is the structure of lignin and can it be used to create new sustainable materials? Can a new kind of spectroscopy method reveal how electrons bind together and what are the properties of a comple...
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Hello there Wicky Qin, designer of an award winning sleep mask
Wicky Qin, a KTH student and product designer, has worked with an international team to produce a sleep mask to improve sleep. The product has three modules: Neural Signal Detection, Bone Conduction and Light Stimulation, which are combined to improve the user's sleep quality. Now, the BEKVÄM sleep mask has been named this year's national winner of the James Dyson Award. Published Oct 14, 2024You have designed a sleeping mask that may improve the quality of sleep by connecting brain signals with light and sound functions. Now the product has been named this year's national winner of the pr...
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They unravel the impact of high fuel costs
Photo: Scania Published Oct 14, 2024When the fuel prices surge – what happens to the transport sector? KTH is part of a project that will find out and focus on how environmental policies impact behavior.
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2024 laid the foundation for KTH mapping of proteins
“The Nobel Laureates' findings form the basis of our understanding of how proteins work, and it gives us a more detailed picture of how the different components of proteins affect their three-dimensional appearance. When we plan to create new properties of a protein, we can record the changes in the AI programme. This way, the technology generates a three-dimensional model of the new protein,” says Sophia Hober, KTH professor of molecular biotechnology and co-founder of the Human Protein Atlas. Published Oct 09, 2024Hello there, KTH Professor Sophia Hober, co-founder of the Human Protein Atlas, The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for discoveries rela...
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'He has rightly been called the godfather of AI'
"Pawel Herman is a lecturer at KTH and believes in the importance of research to align AI with human values. Photo: Peter Asplund." Published Oct 09, 2024Pawel Herman, a lecturer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, specialises in artificial neural networks. Researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton recently received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physic...
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KTH moves up in Times Higher Ed ranking
In the new ranking, KTH places higher than all but two Swedish universities. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Oct 09, 2024KTH continued its climb in the THE World University Rankings thanks in part to a strong score for its research environment.
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Northern lights inspired space physicist's career
Anita Kullen is like a meteorologist for the Northern Lights. She maps when and where it appears in order to forecast future light shows (Photo: Christer Gummeson) Published Oct 08, 2024This year is like Christmas Eve for fans of the northern lights. The sun is reaching the climax of its 11-year cycle, maximising the chances of seeing the colourful show of light. “It's super excitin...
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microRNA important for understanding cancer
Cecilia Williams, Professor of Proteomics with a focus on experimental oncology. Photo: Susanne Kronholm Published Oct 07, 2024The discovery of microRNAs and their role in regulating the activity of genes in cells has been honoured with this year's Nobel Prize. KTH professor Cecilia Williams has studied different types of mic...
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Expert in disaster medicine is awarded KTH Great Prize 2024
Johan von Schreeb, who receives the KTH Great Prize 2024, here temporarily at work in Italy to approve WHO classification for field hospitals. “The standard classification for medical operations is used in war-torn Ukraine and Gaza, and now also in Lebanon, where I am heading next for deployment. This is partly to provide emergency care to war wounded and partly to save lives by providing basic health care to the civilian population,” he says. Published Oct 02, 2024He is a disaster doctor and coordinator who is often part of the first aid teams on the ground in crisis and war zones. He has initiated the Swedish section of Médecins Sans Frontières and is driven b...
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Neuromorphic computer systems challenge AI technology
By better mimicking the human brain's information processes, more efficient computer systems can be created (Photo: Istock) Published Oct 01, 2024Have you heard of the word neuro-computing? A new field of research is emerging in computer science that could challenge current AI technology. Researchers are looking at how the brain processes infor...
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How to reduce the energy use of buildings
iStock: Khanchit Khirisutchalual Published Oct 01, 2024“In the DigiCityClimate project, we are trying to reduce citizens’ energy use with the help of AI. We will also help condominium associations balance and optimize their properties’ operation and make ...
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"An enormous potential - but AI is not always right"
For Karl Henrik Johansson, Professor of Network Regulation, AI is a powerful tool that we must learn to interact with in order to create the society we want. Published Oct 01, 2024Security and truthfulness are some of the challenges in using AI. "AI is an incredibly powerful tool and we need to see how we can interact with AI to build a society that benefits us humans," says ...
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AI virtual cells: shaping the future of biology and human health
An AI-created image of a spherical human cell with a transparent membrane, revealing its internal structures. Photo: Dall.E Published Oct 01, 2024"Modelling a human cell is complex. It contains more than 20,000 genes and 6 billion protein molecules, all interacting dynamically in a microscopic space. Traditional mechanistic cell models can't ca...
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Using AI to fight youth gang recruitment
Researchers Susanne Nilsson and Rob Comber will use an AI-powered database to help social actors collaborate better and more innovatively. (Photo: Anna Gullers) Published Oct 01, 2024Researchers at KTH are using AI to tackle youth gang crime. By bringing together knowledge, contacts, and expertise in a database, they aim to boost cooperation between different societal actors.
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The ocean's smallest creature is mapped
Anders Andersson, professor, and Karin Garefelt, PhD student, studying microscopy images of marine plankton analysed and identified with image recognition software (Photo: Magnus Glans) Published Oct 01, 2024How will a warmer climate affect the ecosystem? Genetic researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are mapping changes in marine plankton to get closer to the answer. Using AI-based image analys...
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The Ephemeral project could be turning point in understanding the atmosphere’s chemistry
Barbara Nozière, professor of physical chemistry, has built several of her own instruments to detect organic radicals. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH Published Sep 30, 2024In 2020, Professor Barbara Nozière received an ERC Advanced grant to work on volatile organic radicals and the oxidising capacity of the atmosphere. Now, her work at KTH has resulted in several origin...
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