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Film Memento helped uncover how the brain remembers and interprets events from clues
Key repeating moments in the film give viewers the information they need to understand the storyline. The scenes cause identical reactions in the viewer鈥檚 brain. The results deepen our understanding of how the brain functions, how narratives work in film, and memory mechanisms impaired by conditions such as Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
Cost- and time-effective risk assessment tools needed for biomaterials
17 project partners will collaborate in a new Horizon 2020 project to develop a standardized solution for the evaluation of biomaterials.
Project examining the state of water services and the structural change to be launched
The current renovation rate in the water supply and sewerage networks is not sufficient. The project aims to find the best methods for the implementation of the required structural change.
Urban research gets stronger
Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa fund new postdoctoral research positions at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
How will Finland benefit from the energy transition?
Approximately 250 clean energy companies present themselves on the New Energy Companies (Uuden energian yritykset) website.
Researchers at Aalto University are looking for new ways to use wood
New scientific ideas can revitalize one of Finland鈥檚 traditional economic engines, forests.
Landscape architect Anni-Mari Anttola awarded 2017 Lappset Scholarship
In her master鈥檚 thesis, Anttola researched special issues relating to the urban ecology of meadows.
Finnish innovation to reduce complications after open heart surgery
Roughly every five patients suffer from different kinds of heart failure after open heart surgery.
INTERVENTION IN URBAN SPACE book released
Intervention In Urban Space book presents three different perspectives on intervention art through projects done by the authors Anna Jensen, Denise Ziegler and Taina Rajanti as well as a collective introduction that considers the concept and background of intervention art.
CKIR researchers active in recent conferences
CKIR researchers have participated in conferences around the turn of the year, including HICSS in Hawaii and ISPIM Innovation Summit in Melbourne.
Love and fear are visible across the brain instead of being restricted to any brain region
The brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people. Differences are greater in social emotions, such as gratitude and contempt.
The first installation talks of 2018 now available on video
Aalto's newly tenured professors reveal the secrets of carbon nanomaterials for health applications and origins and beneficiaries of invention.
Machine Learning for Materials Science Workshop in May
The International Workshop on Machine Learning for Materials Science 2018 will be held on 03.-04.05. on the Otaniemi campus.
Young Finnish scientists: 鈥淢illennium winners gave us fresh ideas and motivation鈥
The Global Young Scientists Summit gave the next generation of the scientific world a chance to meet and learn from Millennium Technology Prize and Nobel Prize winners in Singapore.
Parallel computing to assist in the control and quality control of steel furnaces
The results of Christian Westerlund's Master's thesis promote the productivity of the steel industry. The thesis is based on multidisciplinary studies at Aalto University.
Entrepreneurship can improve older workers鈥 quality of life
This may happen even if this change lowers their income and increases the hours they work.
Serious shortcomings in aging tests of new solar cell materials
Researchers at Aalto University have found that only a fraction of stability tests done on new types of solar cells meet proper requirements. Tests lack common standards and should have been done in real-world conditions and in groups of several cells.
Building miniature optical antennas using DNA as a guide
A new fabrication technique combines programmable DNA origami shapes and conventional lithography methods to create metallic nanoantennas and chiral shapes for diverse applications.