The mystical blood-brain barrier protects the brain like a sentry, making it difficult to get through with vital life-saving medications. Uppsala Professor Christer Betsholtz is trying to find the key needed to enter.
Are showers of asteroids to blame for regular extinction events? If so, we might be able to predict and even prevent asteroids causing mass extinctions in the future.
In some Swedish preschool programs, the children are addressed with a recently coined gender-neutral pronoun rather than as she or he. Researchers have now investigated whether this practice makes the children more untraditional.
The trees in Swedish forests are growing taller and denser through forestry practices but their growth comes at the expense of bilberry and lingonberry forest floor vegetation. Should pickers start worrying?
People with HIV often wonder when and how they should talk about their diagnosis, Swedish research shows. They fear that people will pull away if they are open about their disease.
Weight watchers might be keen to hear that calorie intake is not a simple factor of metabolism. What you eat and how you eat it can have an effect on how much energy a body burns and how full a person feels.
