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 ...

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.

In the third training package, the trainers learnt more about the pedagogical leadership and management in schools from the perspective of the competency based curriculum.

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 ...

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 ...

A study involving some 11,000 dogs carried out at the University of Helsinki demonstrated that the gender, age and breed of the dog, as well as any behavioural problems and certain environmental ...

The new study, published in the journal Science, saw researchers from University of Helsinki, Durham University and Utrecht University collaborate to identify the key components required to control ...

A new genetic study carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, ...

An abundance of genes has journeyed all the way from Siberia to Finland, a recent study indicates. As late as during the Iron Age, people with a genome similar to that of the Sámi people lived much ...