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Inbreeding usually leads to an accumulation of genetic defects, but evolution on a small archipelago may have helped the severely inbred Chatham Island black robin to avoid this fate.
Establishing the age of K'gari (Fraser Island) confirms it emerged before the reef, despite the climate being suitable for coral growth long before then.
A recent paper suggested damaging climate tipping points could be closer than first thought.
Le prix Nobel de physiologie ou de médecine pour 2022 a été attribué à Svante Pääbo, dont les découvertes ont été déterminantes pour la compréhension de notre histoire évolutive.
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, whose discoveries have been pivotal to the way we understand our evolutionary history.
Establecer programas universales de comedores escolares es una política pública muy beneficiosa en el largo plazo. Un estudio hecho en Suecia muestra, a lo largo del tiempo, mejores datos de escolarización, talla y peso, e incluso mayores ingresos al alcanzar la vida laboral.
Rainwater may be contaminated with chemicals and scientists are still uncertain about their effects.
‘Green water’ is essential for healthy soils and a benign climate, but it’s under threat.
A significant employment gap exists between Swedish-born and immigrant job seekers.
Domestic political tensions is undermining the country’s ambitions to act as a global role model.
These crucial ecosystems are being battered by lots of different threats that are combining to make the matter worse.
Research shows large-scale reliance on carbon capture risks postponing climate action too far into the future.
“Sweden’s most wanted”, raps the controversial artist Yasin in his track 20 Talet. The rapper’s lyrics are without filter, direct, raw, born within a marginalised and often criminal environment, depicting…
The production and release of synthetic chemicals worldwide is destabilising the Earth system.
Despite the major challenges lockdown-induced remote learning has presented, teachers, pupils and parents alike have reaped certain benefits. Can school learn from these changes?
All over Europe, early medieval graves look like they were robbed long ago. But new research suggests that relatives re-opened them to take out heirlooms and make connections with the dead.
Researchers have identified four main reasons young people in high-income countries are drinking less.
Children have been widely referred to as “vectors” of COVID-19.
Research ethics focus on avoiding wrongdoing, having been developed largely in response to biomedical scandals. Climate change puts the onus on researchers to add ‘do good’ to ‘do no harm’ principles.
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Professor in Molecular Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University
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Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics, Stockholm University
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Professor of Human Computer Interaction, Stockholm University
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Assistant professor of Physics, Stockholm University
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Professor of Gender Studies, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor in French Studies (cultural studies), head of the Centre for Canadian Studies, Stockholm University
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PhD Researcher in Psychology, Stockholm University
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Researcher in Psychoneuroimmunology, Stockholm University
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Researcher in Data Science and Immersive Technologies, Stockholm University
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Professor of molecular physics, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor of Ethnology, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
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Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor in Theatre Studies, Department of Culture & Aesthetics, Stockholm University
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Research Fellow in Psychology, Stockholm University
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Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University
