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  • Collaboration behind unique AI-program

    AI and machinelearning is focus in an unique contract education that KTH and Ericsson developped together. (Photo: Istock)
    Published Dec 03, 2020

    KTH has joined forces with Ericsson to develop a unique contract education program within Machine Learning and AI. Right now, 30 Ericsson engineers around the world are reading the course.

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  • Student project contributes to future of ocean cargo shipping

    group of students poses with 1:30 scale model of the ocean cargo ship
    Students pose with the 1:30 scale model of the ship they are helping to develop. (photo: Jakob Kuttenkeuler)
    Published Dec 03, 2020

    A 200-metre long ocean cargo ship powered by wind is being developed in the Centre for Naval Architecture, part of the School of Engineering Sciences at KTH. The project is a collaboration with Wallen...

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  • COVID-19 research in Stockholm and Hong Kong is focus of webinar

    A centrifuge is loaded with sewage water samples
    Wastewater-based Surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic is one of the presentations in the joint webinar on COVID-19 research. (Photo: Zeynep Cetecioglu Gurol)
    Published Dec 01, 2020

    KTH and its strategic partner university, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, are hosting a webinar, Thursday, Dec. 3, to discuss each of the institutions' recent discoveries and breakthro...

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  • Method improves detection of coronavirus in sewage

    Researcher working with test tubes in process of concentrating virus from sewage
    Inside the lab where coronavirus particles are concentrated from sewage water samples. Wastewater-based epidemiology can be a cost-effective alternative to testing large populations for SARS-CoV-2 virus, and it has the potential to be used as an early warning system for the pandemic spread. (Photo: courtesy of Zeynep Cetecioglu Gurol)
    Published Dec 01, 2020

    Individual testing is one way to gauge how much coronavirus has spread in a community, but sampling local sewage offers a real-time take on the state of the pandemic - and possibly what to expect in t...

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  • Wind-powered cargo ship model sails in Stockholm

    A scale model of the oceanliner, Oceanbird, undergoing sailing tests in Stockholm.
    A scale model of the wind-powered oceanliner, Oceanbird, undergoing tests in Stockholm. (photo: private)
    Published Nov 30, 2020

    Until the mid-19th century, wind-powered vessels dominated the seas for at least 4,000 years. Now they’re making a comeback in the name of sustainability.

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  • Degree project contributes to amputees' quality of life

    Student poses for camera, seated at a table outside
    Suranjan Ottikkutti designed algorithms that calculated the location of pressure sensors, where the residual limb and prostheses meet. (photo: Lieke Dortant)
    Published Nov 25, 2020

    For those who have had lower-limb amputations, advanced embedded sensors will one day improve all aspects of prosthetics – including comfort and user experience.

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  • “The sea is the key to a sustainable future”

    Photo of two fishermen fishing for Carp Bream.
    Carp Bream is both a good and climate smart fish that unfortunately is often thrown back in the water when caught. Photo: Roger Turesson / DN / TT
    Published Nov 24, 2020

    Of the 240,000 tons of fish that are caught in Sweden annually, only 40 percent goes to food consumption. At the same time, Sweden imports three quarters of the fish and shellfish we eat. Blue Food, a...

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Nov 20, 2020

    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...

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  • "It's like the periodic table of the body"

    The proteins involved in narcolepsy are shown in this still from a 3D animation
    The proteins involved in narcolepsy are shown in this still from a 3D film produced by the Human Protein Atlas.
    Published Nov 19, 2020

    On the 20th anniversary of the Human Protein Atlas Project, KTH Professor Mathias Uhlén reflects on the journey of this massive database for understanding human biology and helping researchers develo...

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  • 'I never imagined working in the music industry'

    Nitin playing the guitar during his master's presentation.
    Nitin Kulkarni using a guitar to demonstrate an audio processor during his master's thesis presentation. (Photo: Sharan Yagneswar)
    Published Nov 16, 2020

    For two master's students, the Embedded Systems programme at KTH opened up some unexpected doors.

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  • Science that ‘hits the spot’ for peace, sustainable development

    Preparing for planting in an irrigated field in Morocco, one of several countries that researchers
    Preparing for planting in an irrigated field in Morocco, one of several arid countries where researchers from KTH's division of Energy Systems work with local officials to help them balance the countries natural resources. (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat/Lydia Herrmann CC by 2.0)
    Published Nov 10, 2020

    On UN World Science Day for Peace and Sustainable Development, Francesco Fuso-Nerini reflects on the importance of scientific research to inform decision-making and international cooperation.

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  • Degree project takes student to front lines of COVID-19 battle

    Aashlesha Chekkala posing in an arcade of cherry trees in Stockholm.
    "I feel privileged that I get to tell my friends and family that the project I work on is in the direction of fighting a global pandemic." Photo: Courtesy of Aashlesha Chekkala
    Published Nov 09, 2020

    The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic became an unexpected opportunity for master's student Aashlesha Chekkala.

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  • Study identifies more genes that are likely behind psoriasis and eczema

    Nail displaying the characteristic pitting of psoriasis. Photo: Seenms/CC BY-SA 3.0
    Nail displaying the characteristic pitting of psoriasis. Photo: Seenms/CC BY-SA 3.0
    Published Oct 27, 2020

    A new study identified 17 new genes that could be targeted for treatment of psoriasis and eczema, two common hereditary skin diseases with no cure.

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  • Auctions increasingly important for economies

    Drawing of a gavel
    The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to two researchers who found new ways to buy and sell things at auctions. (Illustration: © Johan Jarnestad / The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    Published Oct 12, 2020

    The research cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics will continue to be used more in the future, according to researchers at KTH.

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  • Wheat gluten can be used to make sustainable diaper material

    A baby getting their diaper changed
    Most of the billions of diapers used each year are made with petroleum-based absorbent material. That could change with the development of new sustainable materials like the one recently reported by researchers at KTH.
    Published Oct 08, 2020

    More sustainable diapers are one possible use for a new bio-based material that researchers in Sweden are developing. The superabsorbent material is made with wheat gluten proteins from wheat starch p...

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  • "Chemistry prize is a result of great freedom for researchers"

    Illustration of the genetic scissors. Picture of woman cutting in a DNA strand.
    This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of one of genetic engineering's sharpest tools: the CRISPR / Cas9 genetic scissors. Illustration: Johan Jarnestad / The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    Published Oct 07, 2020

    New groundbreaking discoveries require freedom to test unconventional ideas, in combination with a foundation of knowledge, and through systematic and patient research work over a long period of time....

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  • “Black holes are such strange objects”

    Shining in space, the Cignus X-1 black hole binary appears like a spherical burst of light
    The Cignus X-1 black hole binary is one of the objects that Mark Pearce's research group is studying. (Photo: NASA/CXC
    Published Oct 06, 2020

    The announcement of the shared Nobel Prize in Physics was greeted with excitement at the KTH Physics Department, where experimental physicist Mark Pearce has been investigating X-ray emission from the...

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  • Researchers follow Hannes Alfvén's path of discovery

    King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden presents the Nobel Prize in Physics to Hannes Alfvén in 1970.
    King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden presents the Nobel Prize in Physics to Hannes Alfvén in 1970. Photo: Nobel Prize Museum
    Published Oct 06, 2020

    On the 50th anniversary of Hannes Alfvén’s Nobel Physics Prize, researchers reflect on the KTH scientist’s contributions to our understanding of space, and the paths of discovery they continue to forg...

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  • Sewage analysis shows sharp increase in COVID 19 virus in Stockholm

    Published Oct 05, 2020

    The coronavirus is spreading again in Stockholm and surrounding suburbs, according to COVID 19 RNA measurements in local sewage, which are being conducted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

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  • New initiative to build tomorrow’s society

    Three people, Matilda Ernkrans, Karl Henrik Johansson and Erik Ekudden are standing next to an indus
    Matilda Ernkrans, Minister of Research, tests an industrial robot during the inauguration of Digital Futures, together with Karl Henrik Johansson, professor (left) and Erik Ekudden, Chief Technology Officer at Ericsson . (Photo: Fredrik Persson)
    Published Oct 02, 2020

    Robot co-workers, self-driving cars and social carers – more and more smart solutions are becoming part of our lives. What do we want tomorrow’s society to look like? KTH has just inaugurated Digital ...

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