In a 50-year follow-up study, men with a low cardiovascular risk in their 40s retained their functional capacity, happiness and quality of life better than others as they aged.

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki indicates that the total number of people with dementia will grow ...

The Constraint Reasoning and Optimization group, led by , develops, analyzes and applies practical algorithmic approaches to trustworthy automated reasoning and constraint optimization for efficiently ...

In this book, written during his research stay at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2022, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...

For nearly 1,500 years, the Aquiry civilization shaped southwestern Amazonia, and new research reveals it was far more populous than previously thought. Aerial laser scanning uncovered hundreds of ...

Purussaurus neivensis, a seven-metre-long, 1,800-kilogram giant, may even have influenced the size of herbivore populations, fossil evidence suggests. South America during the Miocene was a ...

The online course designed by the University of Helsinki and a learning company MinnaLearn is free and open for everyone. It provides easy-to-understand information and practical examples on the topic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray radiation from the black hole surroundings. The radiation originates ...