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Sweden’s Best-Kept Technology Secret
Published Feb 19, 2012Did you know that the world’s first commercial Internet-like data communication system was developed in Sweden in the early 1970s? KTH Professor Torsten Cegrell, back then an employee of the electrical engineering firm Asea, developed a routing function to help message packets select the correct path through a network — a solution that made possible the Internet as we know it today.
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Making Cars Safe for Cell Phones
Published Feb 16, 2012Research shows that using a mobile phone handsfree device while driving is no safer than simply holding the phone to your ear. Other studies show that attempts to require use of handsfree or ban SMS text messaging behind the wheel are not working at all. Now researchers at KTH are studying practical ways to improve road safety.
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Smart Home Research Set to Begin
Published Feb 08, 2012KTH researchers are about to begin work on designs for innovative new “smart homes” in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, the gigantic showcase development that will re-shape the northeastern edge of the Swedish capital in coming decades. Smart electric grids, already a KTH strength, are an important element in the project.
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Carbon Dioxide Puts Waste Heat to Work
Published Feb 08, 2012Yang Chen’s PhD research shows the promise of carbon dioxide as a working medium for turning low-grade waste heat into power to drive electric turbines, refrigerators and heat pumps.
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Research Looks to Cut Drug Development Costs
Published Feb 07, 2012The pharmaceutical industry is facing a financial meltdown. The cost of bringing new drugs to market has doubled over the last 15 years, and in 2010 the total bill for medical research in the U.S. and Europe reached a staggering $70 billion. At the same time, fewer new drugs are reaching consumers. Now three KTH researchers are working feverishly to lower the cost of developing new medicines — with a sensor no bigger than a single cell.
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KTH Broadens Commitment to Sustainability Education
Published Feb 06, 2012KTH’s focus on environmental issues — underlined in 2011 with the appointment of a vice-president for sustainability — is gaining momentum with new targeted investments in education. The university’s administration has approved SEK 6.5 million ($964,000) for courses in environment and sustainable development studies.
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High-Speed Train Research Pulls into the Station
Published Feb 02, 2012The Gröna Tåget (Green Train) study is approaching its final destination. The potential benefits of future high-speed trains presented by researchers include increased revenue for train operators, fewer delays and up to 30 percent more trips on existing tracks.
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Microfluidics and Nanotech Research Aims for New Cancer Diagnostics
Published Feb 01, 2012KTH is home to a new research project in droplet microfluidics and nanowire technology, aiming to develop techniques for rapid detection of cancer cells circulating in patients’ blood. The team has set an ambitious target of a clinical sensitivity of one cancer cell per millilitre of blood.
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A Man of Magnetism
Published Jan 30, 2012Physicist Stefano Bonetti prepares to move from KTH to Stanford on a two-year post-doctoral fellowship studying the smallest and fastest magnetic phenomena known to science.
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Better Insulation for Durable Transformers
Published Jan 30, 2012Arun Venkatamaran’s degree project on insulation for electrical transformers spans a range of fields, from computer simulations and design to construction and electrical power. Collaborating with a chemistry researcher gave the project breadth and interdisciplinary appeal. “That's the future,” he says.
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Managing Distant Network Equipment with Text Messages
Published Jan 16, 2012A group of KTH students has developed an SMS-based remote management system for network devices located in inaccessible areas.
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Fighting Childhood Cancer with a Nanotech Capsule Therapy
Published Jan 13, 2012Researchers from KTH’s Microsystem Technology Lab are working with colleagues at Karolinska Hospital to develop and test a nanotechnology capsule for precise delivery of stem cell medicine. The aim is to fight the most common type of childhood cancer—without the unpleasant side effects of traditional chemotherapy.
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KTH to Host New Smart Grids Centre
Published Jan 13, 2012KTH has been selected to anchor the new Swedish Centre for Smart Grids and Energy Storage (SweGRIDS), bringing academia together with industry and public utilities to tackle the European Union’s ambitious targets for improved energy efficiency. Some one hundred scientists will work on development of electric power grids that respond intelligently to consumer and supplier behaviour.
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KTH Spin-off Wins Boeing Order
Published Jan 04, 2012The Swedish engineering company Novator AB, a spin-off from KTH’s Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, has landed a major order from the giant American aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
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Innovation Scholarship for Superabsorbent Polymer
Published Jan 02, 2012Two KTH researchers have won a City of Stockholm Innovation Scholarship for an eco-friendly, high-efficiency and renewable superabsorbent polymer.
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Trash-to-Energy Project in Bolivia Wins Funding
Published Dec 16, 2011KTH researchers have received the coveted “Nordic Climate Facility Grant” for a sustainability project in Bolivia that transforms domestic and industrial waste into energy.
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Improving Measurement of Elasticity in Steel
Published Dec 15, 2011It’s not easy to determine the elastic properties of steel by experimenting on single crystals. But now a KTH research team has developed new theoretical methods to bind resilience properties to the steel’s electron structure and magnetic characteristics.
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Career Report: Engineers Find Jobs Even in a Recession
Published Dec 15, 2011Despite the turbulent economy, almost every graduate of KTH Royal Institute of Technology finds a job within two years. The university’s 2011 Career Report shows that nearly 70 percent of recent grads were in “dream jobs,” and one in ten are already in management.
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Making Molecular Energy Visible
Published Dec 14, 2011KTH researchers and their colleagues from France and Japan have found a method to reveal previously unknown details of the atomic binding process.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Visits KTH
Published Dec 12, 2011A University of California Professor, the 1997 Nobel Physics Prize winner and President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy paid a visit to KTH on December 8 — all in one person. Spending an afternoon on campus, Dr. Steven Chu delivered a scientific address Thursday and met students in a lab at the AlbaNova Centre for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology.
