Sweden Science & Technology News

A scientist at the Orebro University in Sweden has recently developed a new method of allowing severely hearing-impaired people to regain at least a part of their former sense. The expert, engineering researcher Parivash Ranjbar, has developed a machine that...

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore says he's optimistic that a global climate treaty will follow the Copenhagen conference next month. Bob Thirsk, the Canadian astronaut with the longest time in space, is eagerly anticipating seeing his family again. The space...

This is a great moment for India. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been shared by three scientists one of whom is an Indian by birth but who is now settled in the US. He is Venkataraman Ramakrishnan. The...

The prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome, which the cell's protein factory. Professor Ramakrishnan is based at the Medical Research Council's Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, UK. This research has revealed how...

Greider, who on Monday became the 33rd person associated with the Johns Hopkins University to win the Nobel Prize , is a triathlete, a mother of two and a methodical and modest genetic researcher who colleagues say shuns publicity in...

Kao, a British and US citizen, for �groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication�. The other half of the prize will be shared by American George Smith and Willard S...Kao�s careful calculations carried out in...

Britain's Carphone Warehouse has stopped selling Sony Ericsson's flagship smartphone due to software problems, dealing a blow to the loss-making Japanese-Swedish firm's turnaround plans. Europe's biggest mobile phone retailer said on Monday it temporarily withdrew the recently launched Satio....

Australian-born scientist Elizabeth Blackburn is part of a trio that has won the Nobel medicine prize. The Australian-American researcher, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the United States, won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering an...

Ad for used car website banned for objectifying women UlsterTrader.com billboards featuring a woman in a bra and a reference to 'nice headlamps' likely to cause offence, rules ASA A billboard campaign for used car website UlsterTrader.com , which featured...

Animal rights activists in Stockholm, Sweden, say thousands of rabbits killed to thin their ranks in area parks should not be used for heating fuel. Anna Johannesson of the Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits is among those opposing...