May 2024

Two recent applications by researchers from the CEST (Computational Electronic Structure Theory) research group for computing resources provided by the LUMI supercomputer were successfully granted. The CEST group, led by Prof.…

Compulsively readable and peppered with engaging personal anecdotes – such was the praise from the magazine Science for Carl Öhman's new book, The Afterlife of Data. The book, based on his thesis, is constructed around the premise that…

Johanna Chamberlain, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Studies, has been awarded the 2024 Stig Strömholm Prize for Humanities-Oriented Research in Law and Social Sciences. She receives the prize for her doctoral thesis…

Even though our smartphones have more speed and memory with the release of each new model, we don't have to charge the battery more often. The energy consumption of those compact computers in our pockets remains limited, despite the…

When cancer strikes the hypothalamus in the brain of a child or adolescent, the chances of survival are excellent, thanks to modern treatment. Afterward, they can be left with a faulty hypothalamus, the part of the brain that produces…

Alternatives for the current energy-intensive separation processes in the chemical industry could significantly decrease both the sector’s CO2 footprint and its energy consumption. In the PhD project she conducted in the Sustainable Process…

Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood. But researchers like me are still figuring out what these changes mean for…

The ocean has a hidden talent, honed over millennia: the ability to capture and store vast quantities of carbon dioxide, a key driver of climate change. However, the ocean’s natural carbon capture cycles, which take hundreds…

No one can precisely predict when an earthquake is to happen. Since the 1994 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles County that caused 72 deaths, 9,000 injuries and $25 billion in damages, Southern California has been…

Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been appointed to the board overseeing the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM is the voter-created agency that funds stem cell research…