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Quantum-mechanical interaction between two time crystals has been experimentally demonstrated

An international team of researchers have demonstrated that a new phase of matter which has, until recently, been mere speculation, obeys basic quantum mechanics laws
Research & Art
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Interaction between two time crystals. The arrows represent are magnetic moments which in reality are continuously processing (arrow tips move over the circle around the vertical axis).

Engaging with materiality and colour through biocolourants

The BioColour project organizes a broad audience event on Monday 17.8, concentrating on different points of view on materiality and colour. Julia Lohmann, designer and Professor of Practice in Aalto University, is one of the project’s researchers and a speaker in the event.
Research & Art, University
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dried seaweed displayed in reds, yellows and greens

Academy of Finland’s Ask & Apply info sessions related to the September call 2020

Find out all about the September call from the webinars that start to roll on 26 August.
For Aalto community
Research & Art
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Beakers on a read canvas

Aalto University granted seed funding for ten innovative and collaborative photonics research projects

The projects explore photonic technologies in strong collaboration with other partners of the Academy of Finland’s Photonics Flagship PREIN.
For Aalto community
Research & Art
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researcher with photonics research instruments

Circular Design Challenge Competition seeks new solutions

Finnish research organisations are looking to pool resources to create new, sustainable and significant business opportunities in the circular economy.

Cooperation, Research & Art
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tasaiselle vaalealle pinnalle on muodostettu maailmankartta kahvijauheesta

The story of a fabric

Matilda Palmu, who will graduate from the Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design master's programme in autumn 2020, describes her artistic process.
Research & Art
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Matilda Palmu's Exhibition poster

Travel survey on Central Railway Station, Jätkäsaari, Otaniemi, Kera and Matinkylä

Answer and enter the raffle to win a prize!
Research & Art
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Aalto Summer School on Transportation poster

Designs for a Cooler Planet — Helsinki Design Week 2020

Helsinki Design Week at Otaniemi showcases inspiring future designs related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Research & Art
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Designs for a Cooler Planet 2020: Race for the Future

New study: The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought

The quiet Sun has been studied considerably less than the active Sun.
Press releases
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Heikko kirkastuma, kuva: Metsähovin radiotutkimusasema

A road to frustration

Aalto University theorist part of a team that opens up a new route to design exotic frustrated
quantum magnets.
Research & Art
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Magnetic materials

Greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost area larger than earlier estimated

Plant roots in soil stimulate microbial decomposition, a mechanism called the priming effect. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience shows that the priming effect alone can cause emission of 40 billion tonnes carbon from permafrost by 2100.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Pohjoisen ikirouta-alueen vehreää kasvillisuutta. Kuva: Ive van Krunkelsven

Intensive course looks for sustainable design solutions following COVID-19

Health and Wellbeing Architecture Summer Intensive gathers multi-disciplinary perspectives to create new interventions, designs, and policy recommendations for pandemics.
Studies
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Aalto University Learning Centre

How vaping companies exploit Instagram for youth-oriented marketing?

Researchers use artificial intelligence to analyse hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts about vaping
Press releases, Research & Art
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vaping

A quarter of the world’s lowland population depends critically on mountain water resources

Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only meet their water demand thanks to essential contributions from mountain regions
Press releases
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Rosegbach. Photo: Daniel Viviroli.

During the COVID-19 crisis, nearly half of Finnish SMEs have applied for public financing, while less than one sixth have applied for a bank loan

Researchers from Aalto University, Erasmus University (The Netherlands) and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) have studied Finnish SMEs' financing options and prospects in the covid-19 crisis.
Research & Art
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Deciphering the structure of nanosystems with machine learning

The CEST group joins forces with a team in Austria to solve a long-standing puzzle in nanoscience.
Research & Art
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Image accompanying publication that resolves the structure of TCNE films on copper

Stopping the unstoppable with atomic bricks

Aalto University theorist part of a team that developed a method for trapping elusive electrons
Research & Art
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Scanning tunneling microscope tip confining electrons in graphene

Tõnn Talpsepp's paper published in the Journal of Banking and Finance

Dr. Tõnn Talpsepp's joint paper with Kristjan Liivamägi and Tarvo Vaarmets has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Research & Art
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Artificial intelligence produces data synthetically to help treat diseases like COVID-19

The ability to produce data synthetically makes studying of the COVID-19 disease significantly easier.
Press releases
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Violetti- ja beigesävyinen kuvituskuva, jossa näkyy ihmisiä ja numeroita

Nature-imitating coating makes batteries more durable and efficient

Aalto University's researchers were the first in the world to make use of carbon dioxide in the production of a battery protective coating.
Press releases
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Nature-imitating coating, picture: Juho Heiska