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Public research university in Umeå, Sweden, with strong programs in chemistry, medicine, and environmental and ecological sciences.
Umeå University researchers link young adults' persistent work disadvantage in their twenties to poorer mental health in their parents. It is an association, and the design as described cannot say which way the effect runs.
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Umeå University researchers tested a HoloLens decision aid on 39 officers and instructors in a staged police vehicle stop and found strong approval. The evidence is participants' ratings after one exercise, and the authors say the final call must stay with the officer.
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Umeå University researchers used 30 years of Swedish and Finnish monitoring data to show the Bothnian Sea became nitrogen-limited soon after 2000. Water short of nitrogen can favour summer cyanobacteria blooms, and the lead author wants nutrient cuts kept up across the whole Baltic.
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A Nature Communications study from Umeå University reports that stressing the lipid carrier bacteria use to build their cell wall stopped MRSA from evolving its way back to resistance. The paper's title names statins as the stressor.
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Fredrik Alriksson's team sampled 32 connected networks in northern Sweden and found that a tenfold rise in water surface came with 35 times longer residence and a 1.8-fold tilt from downstream export toward the atmosphere.
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Umea chemists froze the most reactive iron mineral in cold soils once, at minus 20 C. A year later it had produced none of the goethite its unfrozen twin made, and two paleoclimate proxies assume that transformation happens in liquid water.
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