Uppsala University
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Taking and storing liquid blood samples is expensive and time consuming. To bring down costs and broaden the use of samples, researchers are studying the potential for using millimeter-wide drops of dried blood on filter paper as an alternative means of collecting and storing samples.
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Death by supervolcano is not what most people have in mind when they talk about going out in a blaze of glory. But these magma cauldrons exist among us and they are very much alive. A new study tells us what might trigger one of these sleeping giants.
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Forget apes. Scientists say that we owe our jaws to a prehistoric fish that lived 423 million years ago.
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Researchers at Uppsala University’s Ångström Laboratory have combined the salvaged remnants of a Li-ion battery with completely organic materials derived from alfalfa and pine resin, to create a recycled biomaterial Li-ion hybrid battery.
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ScienceScientists have accidentally created a new material thought for more than 100 years to be impossible. A single gram of Upsalite has a surface area of 800 sq m, equivalent to the sail of a megayacht.
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ScienceResearchers at Stanford University have successfully alleviated PTSD in mice, while the rodents slept – offering hope that a similar method may be used for humans in the future.
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A new study by Uppsala University in Sweden suggests that phobias and other anxiety disorders can be stopped before they fully form.
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The Koenigsegg Agera R which has been reworked for the 2013 model year, raising peak horsepower to 1140 bhp, giving it a top speed of 440 km/h (273 mph) which Koenigsegg will attempt to prove sometime soon.
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ScienceResearchers have used the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser to obtain images of the molecular structures of proteins, and single-shot images of intact viruses.
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Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, have found a way to turn a local environmental disaster into a clean energy source.