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New platform for KTH lecturers in Shanghai
Published Jun 24, 2010The Nordic Center at the Chinese Fudan University has built new premises for teaching and research. Lecturers and students from KTH and other Nordic universities will now have completely new opportun...
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KTH gathers European expertise in medicine and technology
Published Jun 23, 2010The project 3 Micron involves expertise from within medicine and technology from prominent universities in Europe. Participants from 10 universities will cooperate in the development of accurate medic...
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Planning Sweden’s rail traffic
Published Jun 22, 2010Researchers at KTH have produced a model for predicting the consequences in terms of capacity and punctuality when expanding rail infrastructure in Sweden. Put simply, it means improving the planning...
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The world’s largest innovation factory is launched
Published Jun 18, 2010The search for new inventions and the roll-out of many new jobs is underway. This major European investment in energy - InnoEnergy – will create 60 new companies and 100 new products in the energy se...
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The centre of the Earth casts light on volcanic eruptions
Published Jun 09, 2010Researchers at KTH have succeeded in verifying previous research on the globe's innermost core as regards its appearance and structure. This has consequences on our knowledge of how the entire Earth i...
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Swedish dog breeds interbred with the Wolf
Published Jun 08, 2010Previous DNA studies from KTH has shown that all canines, Alsatians as well the Chihuahua, have a common origin in South East Asia where wolves were tamed and became dogs. Now the same research group,...
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Skin packed with mutations
Published Jun 04, 2010A study from KTH shows that the skin saves many of the mutations produced by the sun each year. In the long run, there are an enormous amount of mutations and many years still remain before researcher...
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Mobile banking led to a prize
Published May 27, 2010A mobile application which makes it possible for the poorest people in the world to be able to carry out their banking matters directly in a mobile telephone - that was the solution the KTH students S...
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Car brakes just as big an environmental problem as studded tyres
Published May 25, 2010You have just removed your winter studded tyres. It is too early for you to breathe out, that is if you live in an urban environment. Research at KTH is able to show that the particles a vehicle's bra...
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Making major investments in patient safety
Published May 21, 2010The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare estimate that around 100,000 patients suffer from iatrogenic harm and approximately 3,000 people die every year due to incorrect treatment or through lack of ca...
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Hammarby Sjöstad influences Norra Djurgårdsstaden
Published May 20, 2010The inaugural ceremony for the residential properties in Norra Djurgårdsstaden is planned for the summer 2010 with people moving in by 2012. Sofie Pandis Iverot, doctoral student at Industrial Ecology...
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Soon road signs will become a memory
Published May 04, 2010Most of KTH’s researchers form a part of an extensive European research project which is called Coopers, which aims to create intelligent roads and smart vehicles with the help of technology. Tests of...
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Colour images reveal breast cancer
Published Apr 28, 2010New mammography technology which uses colour instead of greyscale images may mean that 50% of cancers missed today may be detected. With the use of a contrast medium, the technology can also show how ...
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Technology that will help firemen survive
Published Apr 27, 2010The KTH researcher Isaac Skog has just completed his doctoral thesis on the subject of navigation systems. The idea is to find a cheap and simple solution which can be used in the future by emergency ...
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Degree project at Spotify receives award
Published Apr 21, 2010Erik Bernhardsson is to receive a prize from the Swedish Association of Scientists for best degree project which was carried out at KTH in cooperation with the company Spotify. He developed a service ...
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Crystal ball will reveal the secrets of the atomic nucleus
Published Apr 19, 2010Today the AGATA project is being started, a major international research collaboration where hundreds of researchers from 45 institutes and 13 European countries will be participating. KTH has had a ...
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The glass ceiling stopping female professors has been broken
Published Apr 16, 2010Over the past two years, the number of female professors at KTH has doubled. So says Gustav Amberg, vice president of faculty renewal and equality at KTH. The medicine which will make university a mor...
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The face in your mobile will save fuel and the environment
Published Apr 15, 201020% improved fuel consumption and greener driving when the mobile displays a happy green face. KTH students’ mobile application will help drivers to change how they drive. What started as a degree pro...
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Buildings can become 30% more energy efficient
Published Apr 14, 2010Buildings are the biggest source of energy losses in our society. They consume almost half of the world’s total energy needs. This is one of the problems which leading researchers throughout the entir...
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The mobile shows the way to climate-smart travelling
Published Apr 06, 2010Mobile applications have considerable potential to make more efficient town traffic and make it more environmentally friendly. The Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH is about to develop the ...
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