Today most public services involve electronic communication, which requires that people are able to read relatively well. However, a significant number of adults cannot fully understand the texts they read for example on ...

Technology - Software

May 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden. The researchers have for example ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 26, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

The photo-sharing application Instagram is used by millions of people around the world daily. In the media, the social media phenomenon is sometimes dismissed as trivial pastime. However, according to a fresh ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 23, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 0

Teachers' assessments of pupils' literacy can vary significantly, even for pupils with similar test scores. This may interfere with children's right to fair and gender-equal education, according to a new doctoral thesis from ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers are arguing about whether or not the Xenoturbella bocki worm is the progenitor of mankind. But new studies indicate that this is actually the case. Swedish researchers from the University of Got ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Researchers can use the mineral rutile to learn about rock types and their history. Two articles published in the highly respected journal Geology now present a new application of a method for more easily ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 25, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 1

In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the form of ships, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 21, 2013 4.4 / 5 (7) 0

To study the effects of ocean acidification, ten huge plastic containers called mesocosms are placed in the Gullmar Fjord in Sweden. The project is unique: mesocosms of this size have never been used for ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 1

Alpine cushion plants help other plants in harsh mountain environments to survive. This is shown by new research involving researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the results of which are now ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 18, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

The increasingly globalised world enables individuals to more easily move abroad to escape restricting lifestyle norms in their home countries. Yet doing so also makes boundaries more evident. This is found in a new doctoral ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jan 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Forestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting more different varieties of trees, according to a new study in which researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, were involved.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden has resulted in a new type of machine that sorts used batteries by means of artificial intelligence (AI). One ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Dec 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

Higher congestion charges in the morning and in the spring would even out the negative health effects caused by air pollution from cars in large cities.

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 19, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have a negative impact on the protein content of wheat grain and thus its nutritional quality. This is the finding of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in a recently ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 11, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

The ice sheet in West Antarctica is melting faster than expected. New observations published by oceanographers from the University of Gothenburg and the US may improve our ability to predict future changes in ice sheet mass. ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Dec 06, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 0 |