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Destruction of a quantum monopole observed

Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have made the first experimental observations of the dynamics of isolated monopoles in quantum matter.
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Artistic view of the decay of a quantum-mechanical monopole into a Dirac monopole. See the instructions to access the full-resolution image. Credit: Heikka Valja.

A house full of expertise and great potential

The opening ceremony for Aalto Bioproduct Centre was held in a happy atmosphere on 3 May.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Digitalization, innovation ecosystems and expert judgements explored at an international conference

The Building Expertise for Innovation conference brought together researchers, decision-makers and industry.
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Vladimir Å ucha, Director-General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Computers learn to understand humans better by modelling them

Computers are able to learn to explain the behavior of individuals by tracking their glances and movements.
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How to Avoid the Trickiest of Investment Scams

The new book helps new and experienced investors save money by avoiding pitfalls.
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Dissertation: Highly educated people favour ground heat when building houses

A dissertation indicates that ground heat would be a sensible investment for the majority of house builders.
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Some households which know about the low costs of using ground heat do not choose it because of credit limitations or a lack of more detailed information.

Cookbook for Sustainability Innovation encourages co-creation with diverse stakeholders

New ‘Cookbook’ highlights sustainable and innovative co-creation models of companies.
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Winning application allows easy streaming on different devices

Quality award-winning student group created an application that creates added value for customers.
Studies, Awards and Recognition, Research & Art, Cooperation
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The winners of the two thousand euro quality award granted by Accenture included (left to right) Antero Taimiaho, Teo Mertanen, Vili Ketonen, Toni Rantala, Linda Loukamo, Elis Viitanen and (in the front) Mathias Timonen. Team member Timo Kauranen is not in the picture. Photograph by Casper Lassenius.

Associate Professor Iiro Jääskeläinen’s brain research uses movies as stimuli

Rapid progress in brain research will bear remarkable impact in the near future.
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Movie research results: Multitasking overloads the brain

The brain works most efficiently when it can focus on a single task for a longer period of time.
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Aalto University and VTT collaborate to develop novel textile fibres

Aalto University and VTT are taking Finnish fibre technologies towards industrial scale manufacturing in their joint TeKiDe project.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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Self-assembled nanostructures can be selectively controlled

DNA self-assembly allows the unprecedented control of the optical properties of plasmonic metamolecules.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Plasmonic metamolecules. Picture: Marco Tripodi.

NAKUNA exhibition picked into top 40 at Milan Design Week

Students from the Department of Design served exhibition guests over 1000 frozen Finnish berries
Studies, Research & Art
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Laavu installation, photo: Valentina Casalini

Aalto-2 satellite arrived at the International Space Station

The Cygnus cargo spacecraft transporting satellites docked on the station at 1.05 pm.
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Double award for new publication on novel biorefinery concept

Easily scalable, environmentally friendly process separates wood’s principal components for further processing.
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AScI Visiting Researcher programme relaunched

The programme provides support for short international visits to research groups at the School of Science.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Women in tenure committees do not speed up women’s science careers

Aalto University researchers went through Spanish and Italian evaluations.
Research & Art, Press releases
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A new method developed for measuring carbon nanotubes

With this method can be measured e.g. the number of single walled carbon nanotubes and their concentration in a carbon nanotube layer.
Research & Art
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Master the technology, sky is the limit

The four-day LUMA course allows one to dive into nanotechnology and discover: technology is a tool that allows one to do their own thing.
Studies, Research & Art
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Global and local aspects of the surface potential landscape for energy level alignment at organic-ZnO interfaces

Last year Julia Stähler and I were invited by Chemical Physics to write a Perspective article on our work on hybrid inorganic-organic systems (HIOS). This work is part of the collaborative research center HIOS in Berlin (https://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/de/sfb951). Read more at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301010416306784 .
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