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Design student takes over Sweden's twitter account

2013-05-28
Every week, someone in Sweden gets to be the voice of @Sweden, the official twitter account known as Curators of Sweden. This week it's Fredrik Aaro, a 28 year old student in the master's programme in transportation design at Umeå Institute of Design...

Charge your mobile phone with formic acid?

2013-05-27
Surprisingly the answer is yes. With the technology of today it is possible to use environmental friendly formic acid in fuel cell powering your mobile phone or laptop. Physicist Florian Nitze, Umeå University, has in his thesis developed new catalys...

Sharp increase in international master’s students expected

2013-05-23
The number of international students that have been admitted for master’s degree programmes starting in autumn 2013 has risen dramatically in comparison with the prior year. Some of the most popular programmes are in the areas of public health, finan...

The Norway spruce genome sequenced

2013-05-22
Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) – a species with huge economic and ecological importance - and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The genome is complex and seven times larger th...

Gigantic spruce genome sequenced

2013-05-22
The spruce, giant of the forests, outlived the dinosaurs and is today Sweden’s most important plant from an economical aspect. Its genome is also huge, seven times larger than the human genome. For that reason until now a full mapping of the spruce g...

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