Your car, home and even your clothes could one day soon be outfitted with soft, squishy and shock-proof batteries that are made from — wait for it — trees. Researchers at KTH’s Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) used wood-based nanocellulose for this latest breakthrough, which dramatically expands the storage capacity of batteries. “It is possible … Continue reading “Wood you believe? Forests will produce more than lumber and paper”
Spend enough time in the Arctic, and the featureless vista of white snow can eventually make you go blind. The reason is that if you stare into blank nothingness long enough, your brain shuts down your visual processing. Your eyes simply cease to carry the unchanging input. You may even start to hallucinate. It’s called … Continue reading “How noise in the brain is canceled by external noise”
A team of graduate students from KTH Royal Institute of Technology went to the Stockholm suburb of Kista last year to find out what 13- to 15-year-old boys think about books. Of the 38 boys they interviewed, only five said they had ever read a full book on their own—aside from the autobiography of Sweden’s … Continue reading “Pod offers immersion amid distractions”
Watch this video in which Mathias Uhlén takes us through the progress of genomics and proteomics toward an understanding of human biology. The Human Genome Project was an extraordinary milestone for science, but there’s a lot more work to be done in order to understand how the body works. Mathias Uhlén, professor of microbiology and … Continue reading “Unlocking the secrets of disease”
When the Human Protein Atlas was unveiled in November, the worldwide media focused on the news that the testicles have the most proteins in the human body. But for researchers seeking treatments for deadly diseases, the Atlas offers a whole lot more. The extensive database offers a tool for researchers worldwide in the hunt for … Continue reading “Four ways the map of the human proteome is paying off”
