Climate deniers use scientific aesthetics to reinforce and legitimise their message. At the same time their main opponents, the climate activists, are portrayed as emotional and irrational. This has ...

A new exhibition in collaboration with KvinnSam and Gothenburg Women's Map highlights seven women who lived or worked in… ...

HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, is strengthening the field of design by recruiting two new professors: Johan Redström… ...

Physics is the science of matter and of the forces that hold our universe together. Scientific achievements in physics can affect philosophical thinking and our entire worldview, but physics research ...

Our subject area concerns how people, companies and regions develop in relation to the outside world. We study the geographical conditions, relationships and processes of change, and all the factors ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears on a micrometer scale. This paves the way for the smallest on-chip motors in history, which can fit inside a strand of hair.

One of the beneficial gut bacteria residing in the human gut, which normally cannot survive in an environment with oxygen, can now be made oxygen-tolerant. This is a key finding in the development of ...

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg are the first to prove that painful stimuli are sent to the brain of shore crabs providing more evidence for pain in crustaceans. EEG style measurements ...

When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The results are published in a study ...

The GEM dataset is compiled within the project “Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe” (the GEM project) and it comes in two different versions. The dataset was updated in January 2022 ...

70 per cent of the world’s population now live in dictatorships, according to this year’s report on democracy from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg. “On the ...

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment provides long-term relief for patients suffering from late radiation-induced injuries after treatment of cancer in the lower abdominal area. Five years after hyperbaric ...