Swedish scientific research agency awards $2.4 million to natural resource study led by Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom.

• The story of non-economist Elinor Ostrom

Innovations shortlisted  for the 2011 European Inventor Award.

• Tobii eye-controlled laptop turns heads at CeBIT

A Swedish woman in her fifties died recently of the rare brain-debilitating disease, but there is probably no link to mad cow disease.

• WHO worried: Flu vaccine causes narcolepsy

European Science Foundation workshop on in-vitro meat in Gothenburg, Sweden, in August.

Turning trash into electricity is a better bet for the environment and local government budgets than burying it in landfills, said experts who convened at UNC Charlotte last week.

Twelve countries -- including Sweden, Finland and Iceland -- have reported suspected cases of child narcolepsy linked to swine flu jabs.

• Swine flu vaccine causes child narcolepsy

Children injected with swine flu vaccine are nine times more likely to contract narcolepsy than those who are not vaccinated.

• Briton with swine flu gets treatment in Sweden
• Sweden sees first swine flu death this season

Dude: There's nothing worth resolving this time of the year.

It was their first ever autopsy, but students at one of Sweden's top medical schools were faced with a familiar sight in the classroom: the body on the table belonged to their late teacher.

• Conan O'Brien to 'hunger strike' if not aired in Finland
• Swede becomes world's first 'human jukebox'
• Sweden OKs new wolf hunt despite criticism

VIDEO: Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters that “governments are now engaging on what will be presented to Ministers” next week.

A Swedish man broadcast music from his stomach for several hours via a mini audio system. But the sound was "bad, bad".

• Pirate Bay executives' prison terms shortened
• ABBA star loses multi-million dollar case against Qigong temple

A Swedish man broadcast music from his stomach for several hours via an  audio system. The sound was "bad, bad".

• Pirate Bay executives' prison terms shortened
• ABBA star loses multi-million dollar case against Qigong temple

Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have produced a three-dimensional portrait of a complete egg receptor.

• Business booms at world's biggest sperm bank
• Vatican condemns Nobel win for IVF pioneer

France on Friday urged China to free jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, after he won the 2010 Nobel peace prize for his campaign for human rights.

• China not happy with Nobel Peace winner

• Amnesty urges China: Free Liu Xiaobo
• Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo Peace Prize winner

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for championing reform in China
– a move that is certain to anger Beijing.

• Lech Walesa: Nobel for Liu a challenge to China
• Jailed Chinese intellectual fights for change
• China warns Nobel committee over activist
• China 'takes note' of Nobel peace laureate Liu
• Full list of Nobel Peace Prize winners
• The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010: full statement
• Who will pick up Peace Prize? Liu is jailed!  • Amnesty: Free Liu Xiaobo
• Oslo stands strong against warning from China
• Liu's wife: "I'm so excited   • Afghan activist applauds Chinese laureate

Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.

• List of recent winners of Nobel Literature Prize

• African woman poet wins Nobel Literature Prize?