Stockholm University is ranked 98 in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking. This means that Stockholm University is among the top 100 universities in the world, placing the university third in Sweden.
Belén Martín-Matute, Professor at Stockholm University, has been awarded the Ulla and Stig Holmquist Scientific Prize in Organic Chemistry 2023. She is being recognized for her pioneering development of new reagents and reactions in organic chemistry.
A new study shows for the first time that a wide-spread and abundant eukaryotic microorganism in the World’s oceans, called Meringosphaera, steals and temporarily retains plastids (photosynthetic organelles) from another microorganism–an alga–in a process known as kleptoplastidy.
A subpolar species associated with Atlantic water expanded far into the Arctic Ocean during the Last Interglacial, analysis of microfossil content of sediment cores reveals. This implies that summers in the Arctic were ice free during this period. The findings are published in Nature Geoscience.
Stockholm University is ranked on place 118 in this year’s edition of QS World University Rankings, which was presented on June 27.
Quantum technologies including quantum computing and quantum communication rely on a very intriguing natural phenomenon – entanglement. Using modern methods of machine learning enables quantification of this important and fragile feature of the quantum world.
While we communicate with words, an important part of communication takes place non-verbally. But how do we read body language and reflect each other in a time when more and more meetings take place digitally? In a new research project, researchers are developing an AI system that can read emotions – which can, for example, be used as an advisory tool for therapists.
New research shows that wood damaged by bark beetles can be converted into fiber that can replace cotton for several functions in healthcare and biofuels, including for air transport.
For the first time, researchers have produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos, which were observed with the IceCube telescope in the Antarctic ice. The neutrino image suggests that cosmic ray interactions are more intense in the center of our galaxy than once thought. The results are published in the journal Science.
Summer and winter seasons constitute vastly different living conditions for animals and plants in many parts of the world. So how have different organisms evolved to cope with this variation? A study by researchers at Stockholm University published in Nature Communications investigates this question by studying two closely related butterfly species, the small white butterfly and the green-veined white butterfly.
Studies of dark matter and of global governance are the focus of the two centres of excellence that Stockholm University is granted by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Language researchers at the university are also part of a new centre at Uppsala University.
Arne Elofsson, Professor in Bioinformatics at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been selected as an ISCB Fellow in the class of 2023.
