Sweden tourist board offers ‘prescription’ so doctors can sign-off your visit

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Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions

Doctors Can Now Prescribe 'Trip To Sweden' To Improve Health Conditions; Netizens Have Mixed Reactions | Instagram @visitsweden In recent developments, Sweden has become the first country that can be prescribed by doctors to visit in order to...

Generative AI Could Derail Climate Progress, MIT Researchers Warn

As generative AI systems scale at breakneck speed, so too does their environmental cost. Researchers at MIT are raising alarms about AI's growing carbon footprint, driven largely by the energy demands of massive data centers, and are urging...

Building global expert capacity for water sustainability

GLOBAL Walking the sustainability talk, IHE Delft in the Netherlands – the world’s largest international graduate water education institution – has trained a network of more than 25,000 water experts, mostly from across the Global South. “We are...

2025 Eskom Expo celebrates South Africa’s top young STEM innovators

The 2025 Eskom Expo International Science Fair celebrated SA’s leading young scientists with an impressive collection of prizes from full bursaries and cash rewards to tech devices that will support their future in science, technology,...

The Bacterium That Keeps Your Gut Healthy Just Survived a Trip to Space and That’s Good News For Astronauts

Scientists packed the bacterium spores inside the payload section of the rocket. Credit: Gail Iles, RMIT University When a rocket launches, the forces are intense enough to strain metal and push the human body to its limits. Yet Bacillus subtilis,...

Trio Wins Economics Nobel for Growth Research

The Nobel Prize in economics was presented on Monday to Joel Mokyr from the United States and Israel, Philippe Aghion from France, and Peter Howitt from Canada for their contributions regarding the influence of technology on long-term economic...

Tanzania’s quiet takeover of Nordic deals

DAR ES SALAAM: RECENTLY, in the grand yet crisp halls of the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Ambassador Mobhare Matinyi, Tanzania’s representative to Sweden (and by extension the Nordic and Baltic region), strode to the podium and didn’t just shake hands, he...

UPSC Key: Muttaqi in Delhi, Global Burden of Disease report, and Ethanol production

Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance Mains Examination: General Studies-II: India and its neighbourhood- relations; Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or...

Polar competition accelerates

Geopolitical competition in the Arctic and Antarctic is intensifying, with security overtaking climate concerns. An aerial view of the McMurdo Research Center and Scott Base Research Station, located on Ross Island, Antarctica. The American...

Vireo selects Nordsol technology for new Norwegian bio-LNG plant

Dutch technology company, Nordsol, has been selected by Norwegian renewable energy developer, Vireo, to deliver a new liquefied biogas (bio-LNG) production plant in Hardanger, Norway. The facility will be Nordsol’s first project in Norway. It will...

Wildlife Photography Contest Honors the Resilience of Nature

“Comeback of the Atlantic sturgeon” by Jon A. Juárez, GDT – Spain. Winner. Each year, scientists rear hundreds of thousands of sturgeon larvae for release throughout the Baltic Sea region. During the last two decades, the international rewilding...

Sweden Seeks Ship to Accelerate Uncrewed System Experimentation

Sweden is looking for a ship to enable and support development of and experimentation with maritime uncrewed systems. Such a ship would help change and accelerate not only Sweden’s process for acquiring capability but the Royal Swedish Navy’s...

Sweden: Reports of Israel mistreating climate activist Thunberg would be very serious if true

Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, said on Sunday that if reports of Israel mistreating Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg following her detention from the Gaza Aid Flotilla are true, the situation would be “very serious.” In...

Israeli-American professor among 3 winners of 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Israeli-American economist Joel Mokyr, 79, of Northwestern University, alongside Philippe Aghion, 69, a professor at the College de France and INSEAD in Paris, and Peter Howitt, 79, of...

Climate Science Digest: October 6, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (October 6, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. Ethiopia: When soils become a tool against climate change Soil carbon: A hidden...

Sweden orders four Embraer C-390 airlifters to join Europe’s joint transport fleet

Sweden has signed for four Embraer C-390 Millennium transport aircraft under a European framework with the Netherlands and Austria. The deal boosts NATO airlift capacity and marks Sweden’s full transition from its aging C-130H fleet to modern...

Swedish partnership for nuclear-powered data centres

Blykalla, Studsvik and Evroc and have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of Sweden's first nuclear-powered data centres at Studsvik's licensed nuclear site in Nyköping on the country's east coast. The MoU sets out a...

"Without trees, we'd all be dead": UP forest scientist awarded honorary doctorate in Sweden

Professor Mike Wingfield, from the University of Pretoria, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The scientist and academic's research interests focused on the broad area of forest biotechnology and...

Stockholm Furniture Fair to relaunch in 2027

Stockholm Furniture Fair will not take place this coming February says organiser Stockholmsmässan, but will relaunch in 2027, "reimagined and renewed". "In order to create an even stronger and more future-oriented platform, we are now choosing to...