Losing weight via lifestyle adjustments can deliver significant long-term health benefits, without the need for surgery or anti-obesity drugs. Alongside preventing diabetes, it can help ward off ...

IUFRO, or the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, established twelve new task forces for the period 2025–2029. One of them is called Interaction and Synergy of Carbon "3S" (Sink, ...

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 ...

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A new technique enables the use of, for example, cooking oil from fast-food restaurants to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen peroxide. The technique makes ...

The presidents will discuss with the students and the university community of the University of Helsinki on Wednesday, March 19. The event can be followed via livestream. President of Ukraine ...

The Web of Science Research Assistant and Scopus AI are generative AI (GenAI) powered add-ons, which are already available in WoS and Scopus databases the library has acquired. These powerful add-ons, ...

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...

Magnetic stimulation therapy may assist patients for whom antidepressants are ineffective. Researchers from the University of Helsinki and Stanford University have developed more precise methods that ...

Welcome to the Action in Perception 2024 Conference! On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Alva Noë's Action In Perception, a seminal work in enactivist theory, this conference brings together ...

The University is suspending its exchange agreements with Israeli universities, but does not intend to restrict the academic freedom of its researchers to collaborate with their Israeli colleagues.

The Untangling People Flow consortium coordinated by the University of Helsinki has received a total of six million euros in funding from Business Finland for the years 2023–2026. In this unique ...