The summit glacier on Kebnekaise's southern peak continues to shrink and is now 3.3 meters lower than last year and 6.9 meters lower than the north peak.
The risk of global water scarcity is greater than expected
Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity.
Study reveals isolation and pathogens in medieval Spain
An archaeogenetic study sheds new light on the medieval community Las Gobas in Spain. Besides isolation, the researchers have identified the variola virus which can offer an explanation on how smallpox entered Iberia.
The summit glacier on Kebnekaise's southern peak continues to shrink. The annual altitude measurement at the end of the summer shows that Sydtoppen (the South Peak) – Sweden's former highest point – is now 3.3 meters lower than last year and also 6.9 meters lower than Kebnekaise's north peak.
A week ago Oden departed from the Victoria Fjord in Northern Greenland, aiming to go east around the northern tip of Greenland and arrive in Longyearbyen on Svalbard.
The President has recently decided to promote several new professors, including Eddy Ardonne to Professor of Condensed Matter Theory specialising in strongly correlated quantum systems, Maria Hermanns to Professor of Theoretical Physics and Markus Hennrich to Professor of Condensed Matter and Quantum Optics.
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