Skip to main content
To KTH's start page To KTH's start page

News archive

  • Students advise city on its plans to reverse neighborhoods’ isolation

    four women sitting at work table with tablet showing planning document
    “What they delivered was creative and bold thinking, and they presented it in a very clear, pedagogical way," says Eskilstuna planning project manager Robert Gremalm. Left to right, Moa Holmqvist, Helin Celep, Shuming Rao and Moa Ribjer. (Photo: David Callahan)
    Published Apr 05, 2022

    Social and physical segregation are two of the problems one Swedish city hopes to reverse with a little help from students at KTH.

    Read the article

  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Mar 31, 2022

    Who 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...

    Read the article

  • Ethics are important when working with smart cities

    Pod taxis with low-cost sensors measuring the temperature at Kungsholms Strand in Stockholm.
    Stockholm Heat is one example of a smart city project that is being implemented within the parameters of Stockholm Senseable Lab. Researchers in the project are using a method, City Scanner, where low cost sensors that measure the ambient and ground temperature, are fitted to pod taxis. Photo: Susanne Kronholm
    Published Mar 30, 2022

    One key to achieve Stockholm’s vision of being the world’s smartest city by 2040, is the use of digitalisation, sensors and artificial intelligence (AI), to analyse huge volumes of data that are gener...

    Read the article

  • Mercedes-Benz Trucks CEO on the future of sustainable trucks

    Karin Rådström standing in front of red trucks
    Karin Rådström describes herself as fiery and persevering, qualities she’s gained from her years as an athlete. Photo: Daimler Truck
    Published Mar 25, 2022

    She has competed for the Swedish rowing team, lived abroad numerous times and climbed the career ladder at Scania. A little over a year ago, Karin Rådström, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, said farewell ...

    Read the article

  • How antibodies navigate pathogen surfaces like a child at play

    3D illustrations of Y-shaped antibodies planted on small discs that represent antigens
    Antibodies aim to establish a foothold on two separate antigens, in much the same way a child might try navigating stepping stones in a stream.
    Published Mar 24, 2022

    A new study shows how antibodies select the antigens that they bind to, as they navigate the surface of pathogens such as coronaviruses. Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Karolins...

    Read the article

  • Four KTH projects win big EU grants

    robot hand, wingtip, cannula and cells.
    1) Four research projects from KTH have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants. Photos in the collage: upper left image: National Cancer Institute, upper right image: Raghavendra V. Konkathi, lower left image: Paul Vincent, lower right image: This is Engineering. All photos from Unsplash.
    Published Mar 22, 2022

    The recently published European Research Council list of European researchers who will receive 2021 ERC Consolidator Grants, contained the names of 313 researchers who will each be awarded a grant. Fo...

    Read the article

  • How AI can improve elderly care

    elderly persons sitting on a bench outdoors
    Published Mar 21, 2022

    Researchers are looking to AI solutions to help geriatric multimorbidity patients avoid too much unnecessary shuttling between home and hospital stays. “Health problems can often be prevented by mor...

    Read the article

  • Viable Cities inspires the world to create climate city contracts

    Bicycle commuters ride en masse on a Stockholm street
    NetZeroCities, part of Horizon 2020 and the European Union’s Green Deal, is currently creating a platform for climate neutral cities in Europe by 2030. (Photo: Gamma Man, mostphotos.com)
    Published Mar 18, 2022

    Viable Cities is a groundbreaking Swedish innovation programme for climate neutral cities by 2030, hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology. With support from multiple national partners, the progra...

    Read the article

  • Autonomous vehicles en route to the city

    Aqua blue minivan with 5G Ride printed across side door panels
    Future 5G Ride is a development of the 5G Ride project. Since 2020, researchers have been working with 5G and remote monitoring of vehicles via a traffic tower, something that will contribute to a smooth introduction of self-driving buses in an urban environment. Photo: 5G Ride
    Published Mar 14, 2022

    The automobile with a mind of its own is a recurring fantasy in TV and film dating back to the 1960s. But it’s nearly time for KITT, Christine and Herbie the Love Bug to pull over and let some real-li...

    Read the article

  • Method offers sharper images of lung disease in living mice

    3D dimensional color representation of shape of mouse's lungs, encase in ribcage
    A 3D image of the test mouse's lungs, created with the new technique developed at KTH.
    Published Mar 09, 2022

    In a first for X-ray imaging, researchers in Sweden generated high resolution, three-dimensional images of the lungs of free-breathing mice, without using mechanical ventilation. The technique develop...

    Read the article

  • ‘Long, weird journey’ leads to modeling atmospheric effect on wind power

    A view of wind turbines from, looking down from above on a vast plain
    Enercon wind turbines in Fehndorf, Germany. KTH Master's student Martina Formichetti's master's thesis project involves a numerical model for Enercon which takes into account turbulence variations caused by daily temperature changes in the atmospheric boundary layer. (Photo: Enercon GmbH/Karl-Heinz Krämer).
    Published Mar 03, 2022

    In a few months, Martina Formichetti will deliver her thesis—a numerical model that will help the German wind energy company Enercon GmbH with predicting air turbulence at turbine sites, and how much ...

    Read the article

  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Feb 23, 2022

    Who 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...

    Read the article

  • 3D model of living brain cancer points to possible future for drug screening

    A flourescent image shows a green and blue sphere with red channels on each side.
    A fluorescent confocal image of the engineered cancer tissue. Cancer cells (blue and green) arranged in an in vivo-like 3D spheroidal mass, surrounded by artificial blood vessels (red) generated by using the technique.
    Published Feb 22, 2022

    As a potential alternative for drug testing without lab animals, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology developed and successfully tested a 3D model of living brain cancer that surmounts one...

    Read the article

  • SEK 99 million to small lead-cooled nuclear reactors

    Pär Olsson in lab
    “We are performing all the research that is needed before the construction of a lead-cooled nuclear reactor. The aim is to build an electrically heated pilot plant that can be used to prove the viability of an actual reactor,” says Professor Pär Olsson at KTH.
    Published Feb 21, 2022

    Researchers and industry in Sweden are working closely together to realise fourth generation lead-cooled nuclear power plants. Testing and preparatory work is in progress at KTH ahead of production of...

    Read the article

  • Europe doesn’t realize full extent of threat to Mediterranean soil

    a vineyard in Italy with a farmhouse in the background.
    Mediterranean region has the overall highest soil erosion rates within the Europe, the lowest levels of soil organic matter and severe salinisation problems. Pictured: a vineyard in Italy. (Franco Volpato, mostphotos.com)
    Published Feb 16, 2022

    Europe’s Mediterranean countries produce a significant portion of the world’s wines, olives, nuts and tomatoes. But research shows that the region’s farms and orchards are the most susceptible in Euro...

    Read the article

  • Nobel laureate Alfvén’s visionary portrayal of computers in the distant future is now an opera

    Portrait of Leif Handberg in KTH's reactor hall R1.
    Leif Handberg, director of KTH's reactor hall R1, is project manager for the opera ”The Tale Of The Great Computing Machine”. Here he is seen in the control room of the former nuclear reactor. Photo: Marc Femenia.
    Published Feb 15, 2022

    In 1966, “The Tale of the Big Computer” by Hannes Alfvén, a Nobel Laureate and former professor in Physics at KTH, was published. In a co-production with Stiftelsen Vadstena-Akademien, KTH is staging ...

    Read the article

  • 'I want to at least contribute toward equality'

    Valerie Babkina poses in a doorway at the KTH Campus
    "There has to be a match between the scholarship and the person who gets it," says Valerie Babkina. (Photo: Margarita Babenko)
    Published Feb 10, 2022

    Valerie Babkina is determined to stop gendering in mass communications, particularly in her native Russia. That vision of sustainability has guided her in earning three successive scholarships, beginn...

    Read the article

  • Self-assembling and complex, nanoscale mesocrystals can be tuned for a variety of uses

    close up image of mesocrystals forming into supracrystal structures
    A magnified view reveals nanoscale mesocrystals (inset) starting to assemble and form an ordered supracrystal structure, seen in green. (Photo: courtesy of Inna Soroka)
    Published Feb 08, 2022

    A research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces report to have found the key to controlled fabrication of cerium oxide mesocrystals. The rese...

    Read the article

  • Satellite data shows ‘shocking’ way Earth's magnetic field produces plasma jets

    An aurora visible over Uppsala Sweden.
    An aurora appears over Uppsala, Sweden, in late January, 2022. Such phenomena can be enhanced by the plasma jets formed at Earth's bow shock. (Photo: Kjell Carli)
    Published Feb 02, 2022

    Even though Earth’s magnetic field shields us from solar wind and space weather—it doesn’t always offer complete protection. Researchers have discovered a new mechanism in Earth’s space environment th...

    Read the article

  • 2D materials could be used to simulate brain synapses in computers

    Published Jan 31, 2022

    With the introduction of a new component material, researchers at KTH take another step toward computers that mimic the human brain.

    Read the article