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Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.

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Prestigious prize to Diego Calvanese, Wallenberg Guest Professor
Published: 2021-03-15

Diego Calvansese receives the prestigious AAAI Classic Paper Award 2021, the most influential on AI.

Gradual changes triggered historical shift in marine fauna
Published: 2021-03-09

Not all major faunal transitions are related to abrupt global perturbations that triggered mass extinctions.

The end of the television - Will the digital wall revolutionize our homes?
Published: 2021-03-03

Morteza Abdipour has studied how the digital wall might influence how we arrange our future households.

Adolescent perspectives on artificial intelligence
Published: 2021-03-02

Students from a local school and Umeå researchers contributed to a global study led by UNICEF.

Small-scale X-rays challenge the large electron accelerators
Published: 2021-02-26

Physicist László Veisz, significantly reduces the divergence of laser-driven X-ray radiation

Finding a new way to uncover targets for future antibiotics
Published: 2021-02-23

Maria Fällman and Kemal Avican made their idea into a interdisciplinary project together with Icelab.

Distribution of vertebrates redefines temperate and cold climate regions
Published: 2021-02-18

Umeå researchers establish climate regions based on vertebrates' distribution in a new study in eLife.

Robots in a group that can be trusted and understood
Published: 2021-02-17

Umeå researchers study groups of robots that interact with each other and groups of people.

The Swedish Research Council asks researchers about research data management
Published: 2021-02-15

The Swedish Research Council invite researchers to participate in a survey about research data management.

Research improves efficiency of small-scale cloud datacentres
Published: 2021-02-15

Chanh Nguyen has developed methods to improve the efficiency of so-called Mobile Edge Clouds..

Worsened quality of life for people with impaired sense of smell
Published: 2021-02-12

Losing your sense of smell, for instance as a result of COVID-19, can cause a number of problems.

“The industry also needs academia”
Published: 2021-02-12

CHECK brings together Umeå researchers and the largest Swedish industries in cement and quick lime production.

Female MIMS scientists reflect on gender
Published: 2021-02-11

Today we celebrate International Day of Women in Science and draw attention to inequalities in academia.

RAI thinks strategically about AI
Published: 2021-02-08

Pro-Vice-Chancellor Katrine Riklund is chair of RAI that strengthens the development of AI at the university.

High greenhouse gas emissions from Siberian Inland Waters
Published: 2021-02-05

Umeå researchers show that carbon emissions from rivers and lakes exceed coal exports to the Arctic Ocean.