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Advanced coatings boost the competitiveness of solar thermal energy

Solar thermal collectors are taking on fossil energy sources – thanks to a new type of coating.

Ricard Solé, public speaker for the 15 year IceLab anniversary public lecture on terraforming ecosystems, seen here against an AI-generated backdrop depicting an arid ecosystem being transformed to a lush one thanks to synthetic organisms.
Can we engineer nature to save it? Bold ideas in a public lecture

Can synthetic biology help restore collapsing ecosystems? Join Ricard Solé's public talk May 22 Aula Nordica.

Johan Normark och Constantin Urban Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi
New discovery explains why men more are more affected from severe COVID-19

Contributing piece of the puzzle that explains differences in immune responses in women and men to COVID-19.

– Erik Olof WikLund, konstnär och examinerande masterstudent vid Konsthögskolan, Umeå universitet– Nils Hauff, staff scientist, Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy, Umeå universitet, SciLifeLab
Art meets nanotechnology – the world’s smallest Dala horse created at Umeå University

A unique collaboration where artistic creativity and advanced nanotechnology come together.

Magnus Ölander, postdoc in the Sixtlab, sharing exciting findings from an antibiotic discovery project with labhead Barbara Sixt and colleague Aakriti Singh.
Discovery opens up for new ways to treat chlamydia

A newly discovered molecule paves the way for research into new antibiotics that kill chlamydia.

Laboratory of Swedish Metabolomics Centre, Umeå
Research infrastructure at Umeå university essential for FOI's on investigating radiation-induced damage

To obtain a better understanding of radiation damage, FOI turned to the Swedish Metabolomics Centre for help.

Recent feature articles

Mats G LarsonProfessor vid Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik
Mathematics that can change the world

Mats G Larson’s research is shaping the future of cars, cities and robots through models and simulations.

Porträtt på Auvikki de Boon, Forskare vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå universitet.
A day at work - EU research-project CoCo

We give you an insight in what goes on at the department of Political Science

A covered book
The importance of libraries

Artist Shubigi Rao emphasises the importance of libraries in many of her works.

Alef dos Santos, postdoctor at the Department of Chemistry, studies biosignatures to prepare for future Mars missions.Alef dos Santos, postdoktor vid Kemiska institutionen, forskar på biosignaturer som kan användas för framtida Marsströvare.
Signs of life: he detects biosignatures in preparation for future Mars missions

Alef dos Santos studies microbes in extreme environments to find chemical traces of extraterrestrial life

Christiane Funk
Fascinated by the superpower of microalgae

Christiane Funk is passionate about small organisms with great potential for a more sustainable future.

Patrik Johansson, forskare och lektor inom freds- och konfliktstudier vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen vid Umeå universitet.
A day at work - Convention in Chicago

A day in a life of a researcher in Peace and conflict studies