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Flow research for an energy-efficient future
Shervin Bagheri, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at KTH, receives the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants 2023. (Photo: Erik Thor) Published Jan 31, 2023Shervin Bagheri is conducting research into how flowing fluids and gases interact with surfaces and materials. He now has funding from ERC Consolidator Grants 2023 to study what are known as self-lubr...
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Student social group offers diversity, sense of 'belonging'
KTH President Anders Söderholm reads a citation as Fuad Alam (left) awaits the awarding of the President of KTH's Equality and Diversity Prize for students. (Photo: Kalle Börjesson) Published Jan 18, 2023Recognizing the importance of social life at university, a new student association has grown to become KTH’s largest by creating a social scene intended to make students from all cultural and ethnic b...
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KTH and Alstom in joint effort for a sustainable European railway system
KTH and Alstom are collaborating to develop train traffic in Europe as part of the EU's commitment to sustainable transport. (Photo: Alstom / KBD Bilder AB) Published Jan 16, 2023The EU is focusing heavily on sustainable travel. With Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), the vision is to introduce a high-capacity, highly reliable integrated European railway system in orde...
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Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year
A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid) Published Jan 12, 2023Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.
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How mobile users can help keep the network up during a power cut
“During power failure, a lot of people think that their laptop or phone will carry on working until the battery runs out. Few people consider that the base station the mobile is connected to also needs power, and that centrally too there’s a risk of overload”, says Maria Jonsson, Head of Network. Published Jan 12, 2023If there’s a power cut in Sweden, mobile operators have to keep their masts running using temporary backup power to ensure that coverage does not disappear immediately. But the masts can still go down...
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New database maps proteins that could predict cancer
A new database enables identification of individual cancer types based on a drop of blood. Photo: Andre Popov Published Jan 09, 2023Cancer prediction medicine gained a boost with the recent unveiling of a new cancer protein profile database compiled from AI and machine learning.
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Electric hydrofoil boats beat diesel boats for climate sustainability
An electric hydrofoil boat. The hydrofoil lifts the boat’s hull out of the water, thus reducing drag and reducing energy consumption. Image: Candela. Published Dec 13, 2022Two KTH students have completed a master’s thesis comparing the carbon footprint of electric hydrofoil ferries to that of traditional diesel ferries. The study shows that the hydrofoil ferries emit 97...
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Course takes a critical look at assumptions about sustainability
"The sustainability discourse both in research and the public domain is usually dogmatic, often picturing sustainability as a black-and-white issue,” says Emrah Karakaya. Published Dec 12, 2022A new PhD course examined how common assumptions about sustainability feed into research and what can be done about it.
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Fusion energy is focus of KTH investment
A depiction of the Novatron nuclear fusion reactor. (Image: Novatron Fusion Group AB) Published Dec 06, 2022KTH Royal Institute of Technology announced today that it will make a joint investment in fusion power with Novatron Fusion Group AB and EIT InnoEnergy. The purpose of the work is to evaluate new tech...
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260 million SEK to research within materials in first WISE call
Photo: Pexels Published Dec 06, 2022A total of 193 applications were submitted in the first PhD and postdoc call within Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE). Now, 90 projects have been awarded a total of 260...
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Non-hormonal gel proves effective at helping mucus block sperm
The newly developed gel proved 98 percent effective in blocking sperm from entering the uterus of sheep. Pictured, a microscope is set up for examining the penetration of sperm through cervical mucus. (Photo: Ulrike Schimpf) Published Nov 30, 2022A new way to prevent pregnancy without side effects may be possible with a prophylactic gel made from all natural, non-hormonal ingredients, researchers at KTH report. The gel reinforces the cervical ...
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Scientists produce electricity from wood
On the far left, natural wood is seen. The three pieces of wood on the right have undergone different types of treatment that give a higher surface area and smaller pores, which provide rapid water transport through the material. Photo: Jonas Garemark. Published Nov 29, 2022At a time when energy is an issue affecting many millions of people worldwide, scientists at KTH have managed to harvest electricity by passing water through refined wood. Their work has recently been...
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Robots play music and dance in KTH opera
The robots Queen (left) and King (right) on the stage floor in Reaktorhallen at KTH together with the artistic director Åsa Unander-Scharin, who imitates King's dance movements. Photo: Magnus Glans. Published Nov 24, 2022The two robots King and Queen have important parts to play in the final scene of The Tale of the Great Computing Machine, the opera which premieres at the KTH Reactor Hall on 1 December. One plays an ...
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Student-oriented careers fair Armada returns to KTH
At the Tekniska Högskolans Studentkårs (THS) University of Technology Student Union's (THS) careers fair Armada, thousands of KTH students make contacts with close to 150 companies. Photo: THS. Published Nov 17, 2022After being held digitally the past two years, Armada is back at KTH. On 22–23 November, thousands of students and almost 150 exhibiting companies will come together at Sweden’s biggest student-orient...
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International student enrollment returns to pre-pandemic level
Internationalisation benefits KTH in key ways. For one, it enables the university to draw from a bigger talent pool, says Andersson, who heads the student recruitment division at KTH Department of International Relations. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Nov 11, 2022International student enrollment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology returned to pre-pandemic levels this autumn, the university reports.
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Honorary doctor focuses on collaboration for a fossil-free future
Anders Brolin, experienced Director of Group Innovation and R&D within the field of pulp, paper and packaging materials at Stora Enso, is one of two recipients of an honorary doctorate from KTH in 2022. (Photo: Private) Published Nov 10, 2022Anders Brolin, a director with many years’ experience of research in the forest industry, has played an important role in developing KTH’s research into pulp and paper. Recently, there has been a focu...
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“Driverless vehicles of the future could have an adverse impact on human health”
“As a society, we need to think about how we actually want to use autonomous technology. We can’t ban motor traffic, it does have a place after all. But pedestrian and cycle traffic has one too, and it has positive side effects,” says KTH researcher Erik Almlöf. Published Nov 09, 2022If autonomous vehicles become commonplace on our roads in the future, fewer people will walk or cycle while emissions will increase, according to a new research study. “More people will take the car ...
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KTH hosts hub during the UN climate conference
Karin Larsdotter, deputy director of KTH Climate Action Center. Photo: Alexandra Von Kern. Published Nov 08, 2022Hello there, Karin Larsdotter, deputy director of KTH Climate Action Center; what is happening at KTH's COP27 hub?
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Wood-based plastic may enable circular home furnishings and building materials
Peter Olsén, a researcher at KTH, holds up a sample piece of a new degradable plastic from wood. “These new materials, because of their high fiber content and degradable, matrix could be a game changer for a future circular material economy," he says. (Photo: courtesy of Peter Olsén) Published Oct 25, 2022Plastics used in home furnishings and constructions materials could be replaced with a new kind of wood-based degradable plastic with semi-structural strength. Unlike thermoplastic, the material can b...
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KTH alum Sandra Muhr develops a toolbox for cancer treatments at CERN
Published Oct 25, 2022Sandra Muhr, 27, is playing a part in the industrialisation of future cancer treatments at CERN, the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory located just outside of Geneva, Switzerland. “The miss...
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