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Cut costs with new sensor for asthmatics
In Sweden, approximately 700,000 people suffer from asthma and every year around 200 people die according to the Asthma and Allergy Association. Asthma can therefore be regarded as one of the major endemic diseases in Sweden. Today's medication for asthma is however rather blunt which means that patients have to take more medication than necessary. A new sensor will cure this particular problem.
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IT will solve tomorrow's energy problems
Reducing our electricity consumption which will lead to smarter storage and distribution of electricity are two major challenges we face. When the third meeting of the conference ICES begins on 2 September, the arrangers and the researchers at KTH intend to tackle these problems; they also aim to define a number of new challenges which are worthy of further research.
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This is how sharp your knife is
How much does it cost to cut? What impact does the sharpness of the knife have for the butcher, precision and quality. How sharp is a knife? These are questions which researchers at KTH are looking for the answers to.
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KTH cooperates with Tokyo University
Education and research in the future imposes new and harder demands on universities throughout the world. In order to meet these demands, the prestigious Tokyo University has created a forum, which provides the possibility of exchanging knowledge between different countries’ universities. Besides the initiator of the idea, KTH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of California, Berkeley are among the participants.
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Magnetic nanopaper shows the way for new forest products
Researchers at KTH, Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) and SU have succeeded in creating magnetic nanoparticles in super-strong nanopaper. The new nanopaper is extremely light, strong and flexible and can, among other things, be used to prevent the forgery of paper money, and also to filter off metal particles.
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