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Public research university in Oulu, Finland, with active research programs spanning medicine, genetics, environmental science and astronomy.
University of Oulu models show the strongest Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at Earth's magnetic edge form in the winter hemisphere. So far the evidence comes from simulation.
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Lund and Oulu biologists argue in Insectes Sociaux that a honey bee colony of tens of thousands of bees is one animal, made of bees as a body is made of cells. Lead author Hannes Bonhoff says that view should change how beekeepers manage queens, swarms and varroa mites.
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Finnish researchers found evening types drew disability pensions at a 70% higher unadjusted rate than morning types over 12 years among 5,679 adults. Once health and lifestyle were counted the gap lost significance, so in this cohort chronotype flags risk without being shown to cause it.
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Pablo Santos-Sanz's team used the James Webb Space Telescope to find Chariklo's inner ring 42% more opaque and its outer ring barely visible. Occultations are rare, so for now the team can show that the rings changed but not why, or how long they will last.
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Researchers report in Nature that mouse skull bone marrow holds germinal-centre-like lymphoid structures that respond to CNS antigens and help drive anti-tumour immunity.
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A team in Finland assembled the species' genome from a living seal caught during a translocation programme, and posted it as a preprint. The population's inbreeding numbers still have to be measured.
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A 25-country systematic review finds legacy flame retardants dominant in particle-rich matrices. The exposure pathway now belongs to whoever dewaters, dredges or spreads.
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A study of six crop groups covering roughly half of internationally traded calories finds economic inequality the strongest constraint on food accessibility, ahead of production shocks.
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In 2,264 46-year-olds from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, heavier coffee drinkers had less visceral fat and more muscle at similar BMI. The release reports directions, not magnitudes.
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