Mycelium-based composites can offer a lightweight, easily moldable, and insulating material alternative. Mushrooms instead of styrofoam In experimental laboratories and industry, great expectations ...

Unlock the power of modern database systems with Professor Jiaheng Lu’s new summer course on Multi-Model Databases!

Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki aims to solve research problems in humanities and social sciences with novel computational methods, and for studying digitalization as a phenomenon. We ...

What is it like to study geometry, algebra, and topology in the MAST programme? Geometry, Algebra, and Topology are pure mathematics and essential to modern mathematical research. In the MAST ...

What fascinated me and brought me into analysis was the idea that you could have infinitely dimensional linear spaces that are not just the calculus of one or two variables, says Director of the ...

The University of Helsinki Doctoral School, in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland, organized a two-day summer school for PhD students in health sciences from across the Nordic ...

Based on the contents of the four training packages, a joint MOOC available for all the teacher educators was established.

An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated that certain strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson’s disease in most cases. The study enables the screening of ...

In a collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard ...

Using fatty acids as solvents has many benefits over using traditional mineral acids and aqueous solutions. In addition to originating in waste material, they are biocompatible, biodegradable, low in ...

A Finnish research group at the BABA Center, Helsinki Children’s Hospital, has developed a novel wearable for infants for the reliable assessment of motor abilities during early development. The smart ...