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Axel Englund’s research inhabits the border zone between literature and music. He now has a new project in which he is studying the relationship between music, corporeality and sexuality among modernist writers, including Proust, Mann and Musil. The aim is to provide a new understanding of music’s central role in the modern novel.

Professor Alexander Balatsky is heading a new project aiming to break new ground in the field of quantum physics. The researchers intend to develop new theoretical models and methods to understand, predict and ultimately also to control new dynamic quantum states.

Sperm size varies dramatically among different animal species. But why is sperm size so variable when they share the same job – to fertilize eggs? In a new article published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers from Stockholm University show that animal sperm evolution become supercharged only when sperm swim inside females.