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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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Researchers give robots better tools to manage conflicts in dialogues
Published: 2023-12-11

What happens when humans and robots don't understand each other, or focus on different things?

Researchers join hands with industry to measure the unknown
Published: 2023-03-17

How the MAX IV laboratory can be made more accessible – university invests in knowledge support for industry.

Researchers try new method to clean contaminated sediments
Published: 2020-02-20

Researchers have been awarded SEK 4 million to test a new method for cleaning contaminated sediments.

Researchers will locate sites for production of blue energy
Published: 2022-02-03

Swedish Energy Agency grants 5 million to locate places with potential for salinity gradient power.

Researchers will study how AI affects human well-being
Published: 2020-11-05

Ingeborg Nilsson is one of the responsible for the initiative.

Researching how eating disorders are represented in literature
Published: 2023-04-06

"The way we ask questions in humanities contributes to the medical perspective."

Responsible AI grant
Published: 2020-07-21

The research project Responsible Artificial INtelligence (RAIN) is supported with a SEK 1,500,000 grant.

Restoration project nominated for EU prize
Published: 2018-06-11

The restoration project ”Vindel River LIFE”, coordinated by Umeå University, is one of totally 28...

Reveals technology behind a space instrument built to study Jupiter
Published: 2022-05-11

The instrument will measure ions and electrons in the Jupiter system aboard a European spacecraft.

Ribosomal protein exhibits remarkable evolutionary transformation
Published: 2023-12-14

Ribosomal protein undergoes structural change but retains sequence during evolution.

Risk of social media creating ambiguity in acute crises
Published: 2022-03-04

In an acute crisis, it can be difficult to know exactly what has happened and how to respond.

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.

Robots that recognize and express intentions
Published: 2022-09-14

Getting intelligent computer programmes to recognize and express intentions is complex, new thesis shows.

Rooting regulators are evolutionary conserved
Published: 2021-05-31

With genomes of trees mapped, one can study initiation of adventitious roots from an evolutionary perspective.

Rules must be broken when computers are to learn human language
Published: 2021-06-30

Anna Jonsson has developed her own model for semantic analysis.