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Scientists observe a new quantum particle with properties of ball lightning

This knotted skyrmion may provide insight into a stable ball of plasma that could enhance future fusion reactors.
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Artistic impression of a quantum ball lighting. Figure credit: Heikka Valja.

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’s 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’s disease.
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Marked red are the brain regions which process the clue-providing key scenes, both before and while they occur. Anticipatory activity appears on the visual cortex up to eight seconds before the scene begins. During the scenes, there’s fingerprint-like activity in the prefrontal lobe and parietal lobe, both believed to be connected to memory retrieval and reinterpretation of previously seen events.
Memento poster detail (left), (c) Oy Nordisk Film Ab | Image (right): Iiro Jääskeläinen.

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.
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Aalto University School of Engineering

Board chosen for Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Erkki Liikanen, the Governor of the Bank of Finland has agreed to serve as the chair of the board of the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE)
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Finnish innovation to reduce complications after open heart surgery

Roughly every five patients suffer from different kinds of heart failure after open heart surgery.
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Biodesign Finland 2017 Team: Jari Rantala (l.), Kalle Kotilahti (m.), Sami Elamo (r.) and Tommi Pätilä (not pictured).

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.
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In studies on the ageing of perovskite solar cells and the dye cells in the picture, a sufficiently large number of samples is one of the prerequisites for quality. Photo: Valeria Azovskaya, Materials Platform, Aalto University.

Interior design students’ Nirvana exhibition in Stockholm

The student work exhibition presents colourful chairs.
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Nirvana exhibition: chair by Sara Urbanski, photo by Chikako Harada.

Doctoral student – welcome to co-create the Sustainability Hub event in May

Mayday Mayday, 18 May 2018 in Dipoli, is the Inaugural Event of Aalto Sustainability Hub.
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Aalto University invests in children and young people – Aalto University Junior is ready for adventure

New facilities for child and youth activities opened at Otaniemi campus.
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Children and young people can experiment different kind of things in the new Aalto University Junior laboratories. (Photo: Aino Huovio)

Improved home care services and reduced workload for carers with a new work model

Aalto University researchers have developed the model for several years together with carers and home care administration.
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Half a million euros in donations for a new Information Networks Professor at Aalto

Aalto University will use the funds to establish a new Professor of Practice for the Information Networks degree programme.
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Information networks students get deep into working life already during their studies in various group projects. Picture: Mari Hirvi.

ScienceSLAM Helsinki is back! – Researcher, apply now!

ScienceSLAM Helsinki gives local scientists a stage to share their research with the general public by taking it outside the laboratories and dusty offices into clubs, bars or theatres.
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Helsinki Graduate School of Economics gains several new professorships

Helsinki GSE will gain new professorships funded by the Bank of Finland and the VATT Institute for Economic Research, which is governed by the Ministry of Finance.
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Diving into the unknown: what’s physics after the Higgs boson?

Thousands of researchers at the CERN research centre are looking for particles and phenomena that standard physics cannot explain.
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The CMS detector in the Large Hadron Collider with which Pekkanen and thousands of other physicists work at CERN. Photo: Panja Luukka.

Night owls have larger social networks than early birds

Data and traces of our mobile phone use and digital behaviour can be used to understand and treat mental health disorders.
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Night owls (blue) are more central than early birds (orange) in their social networks. Each circle represents one person, and the lines connecting the circles are indicative of interactions (phone calls) between them.

European Space Agency opens a business accelerator on Aalto University campus

Located at A Grid, the new centre for growth companies, the accelerator will give impetus to space-technology-based entrepreneurship in Finland.
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Aalto-1, launched into space in the midsummer 2017, is one of the satellites built by Aalto students. Image: Aalto University.

Finnish energy transition arena report launched: Experts highlight a need for a thorough renovation of the energy sector to meet global climate challenges and improve Finnish competitiveness

The use of fossil fuels needs to stop on a fast schedule, a fresh report emphasises.
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Not blinded by the light: Rods in the retina contribute to daylight vision

Findings of international research team may be beneficial in the search for new treatments for patients suffering from loss of photopic vision.
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New microscope sets a record for visualizing surface wetting properties

The microscope is 1000 times more precise than current techniques, allowing the creation of wetting maps as a new concept for hydrophobic surface characterization.
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Microscope droplet probe on a butterfly wing

HeatStock ties for first place in Helsinki Challenge idea competition

Aalto-led team develops material that stores heat.
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