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Leather bag made of fungus
Researchers hope that products made from fungal leather could be available in stores, within a few years. (The bag pictured is made from traditional leather) (Photo: Mostphotos) Published Mar 20, 2025From crummy food scraps to a stylish leather bag. In a new project, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and other institutions will investigate how biotechnology can be used to produce ...
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KTH researchers contribute to more sustainable student accommodation
Students testing co-living in an experimental apartment at the Live-in Lab, KTH's residential lab. (Photo: Fredrik Persson) Published Mar 17, 2025More sustainability and less loneliness. This could be the result of the new building regulations for student accommodation that are proposed to be introduced on 1 July and where KTH has contributed w...
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Light chemistry could lead to better medicines
Tove Kivijärvi has developed the new method together with researchers from KI and Uppsala University. Photo: KTH Published Mar 13, 2025By combining hydrolysis and light chemistry, researchers at KTH, KI and Uppsala University have developed a new method for controlling the functionality of medical biomaterials. The results may ultima...
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Mapping unexplored areas in Greenland could provide new insights into ice-melting
Published Mar 11, 2025A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature shows that the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Between 2012 and 2023, the world's glaciers lost about 36 per cent more i...
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Developing nuclear fuel for future reactors
Published Mar 11, 2025Maria Giamouridou works with a most interesting material. The PhD student is fabricating the more advanced type of nuclear fuel uranium nitride, which can be used for small modular reactors (SMR).
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Charging the future: transforming body heat into sustainable energy
Published Mar 10, 2025Jose Serrano, a postdoctoral researcher in applied physics, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship* from the EU to develop more sustainable thermoelectric hybrid gen...
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Researchers develop holes 60,000 times smaller than human hair
KTH PhD student Fabio De Ferrari pictured with samples from his research on DNA sensing. He believes this has potential to advance personalized medicine worldwide. Photo: Cecilia Aronsson Published Mar 05, 2025New process offers extreme precision that could revolutionize medical diagnostics and beyond.
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Bringing computation to brain health research
Arvind Kumar is leading a new initiative which aims to unite and improve the scientific understanding on brain disorders. Published Mar 04, 2025A new brain health initiative at KTH will bring together expertise from across disciplines to pave way for better diagnosis, and treatment of brain disorders. Meet the initiator, researcher Arvind Kum...
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For graphene sources, a potential green alternative to mining
“The future of auto manufacturing will build on battery-based power, and the question is where the graphite will be sourced? They are going to need alternatives," says researcher Richard Olsson, seen here in the lab holding two sources of graphene, a spool of carbon fiber and a piece of mined graphite. Published Mar 03, 2025KTH researchers report a green alternative to reduce reliance on mining graphite, the raw source behind the next wonder material, graphene.
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KTH Innovation among Europe's best
“Many of Sweden's most promising startups emerge from KTH and it's great that this is being recognized” says Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation, next to Anders Söderholm, KTH's president (Photo: KTH) Published Feb 27, 2025Latest Financial Times ranking places KTH Innovation among the best startup hubs in Europe. Particularly good marks are given to the efforts in sustainability.
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"Children are gendered towards different interests as early as preschool"
Annica Gullberg is a professor and member of the research group for Learning in Technology and Science Education. Published Feb 25, 2025Newly appointed Professor Annica Gullberg aims to break down preconceptions about technology and make it more relevant. With a special training, she also seeks to reduce students’ sense of powerlessne...
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Researchers unite to Advance AI
Published Feb 20, 2025The latest developments in AI and cybersecurity took centre stage at an event held in KTH’s robotics lab. Leading researchers from KTH explored opportunities, challenges, and the impact of rapid techn...
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Bridging continents: Interest in sustainability led student to Japan
KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in a prestigious exchange program in Japan recently. Published Feb 14, 2025KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Japan, by participating in a prestigious exchange programme aimed at empowering students to lead the global susta...
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The facility that links to EU quantum communications
Dena Wibowo, research engineer, demonstrates the new facility (Photo: Malin Persson Mörk) Published Feb 11, 2025A pilot quantum communications facility has been inaugurated at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). It will serve as Sweden's launching platform for the new EU quantum communications network.
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Scania cooperation shows promise of remanufactured products
The people behind the successful implementation of remanufactured gearboxes in new truck production at Scania AB: from left, Michael Lieder, Business Developer at Scania, Christer Wilhelmsson, workshop manager at Scania, Kevin Karlsson, Industrial Engineer at Scania, Farazee Asif and Jonny Gustafsson, researchers at KTH, and Jens Edberg, Manager Manufacturing at Scandinavian Transmission Service AB. Published Feb 10, 2025Scania last year made automotive history by incorporating remanufactured components into the production of new trucks. This innovative move, supported by research from KTH Royal Institute of Technolog...
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Milestone for lead-cooled reactors
KTH staff at the event in Oskarshamn: Elina Charatsidou, Pär Olsson and Janne Wallenius. Published Feb 07, 2025This week, Oskarshamn was the scene of an important step for nuclear power with the start of construction of an electrically heated prototype for a future nuclear reactor. The company Blykalla and KTH...
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AI fixes security flaws – KTH wins prestigious award
Published Feb 07, 2025Can AI fix security flaws before hackers strike? KTH researchers say yes—and their breakthrough won the Best Paper Award 2023 from IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. By using AI to automate se...
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Alternative to studded winter tires reduces airborne particles by 20 percent
Beyond keeping cars from losing control studded tires also pulverize the pavement - generating micro-particles that go deep into the body when inhaled. Researchers have developed a metal that does less damage to the road surface. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Feb 05, 2025On icy roads, studded winter tires can save lives – but they pulverize pavement and fill the air with dangerous, inhalable particles. A new study shows that both road wear and airborne particles could...
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Clean fusion energy: important step forward in efforts to stabilise plasma
After months of preparation, KTH has reached an exciting milestone in its fast-moving effort to build a reactor that can create and control the magnetic field required to keep super-hot plasma in place. Photo: Torbjörn Bergkvist Published Jan 30, 2025KTH has, in collaboration with Novatron Fusion Group (NFG), reached an exciting milestone in a fast-moving clean fusion energy project. After months of preparation, the research team has recently succ...
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Supergroup collaboration for the powertrains of the future
AI-generated image. Published Jan 30, 2025Centre X is a new initiative in the field of Production Engineering, led by KTH and Chalmers. Bringing together major stakeholders from academia and industry, the centre will create innovative powertr...
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