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Digital tracing apps should incorporate social connections to mitigate disease outbreaks
Digital tracing models could benefit from a closer look at social connections between app-users.

Researchers investigated the size of 1 000 popular websites 鈥 more than tenfold differences within categories
In just ten years, the size of mobile pages has increased tenfold. Some online stores have already understood that less is more, says Professor Jukka Manner, who led the research.

Could wearable memes be the new fashion statement?
Digital fashion practices can amplify our artists - or trolls - within.

How does an oil company make a green leap? Can the procurement community help Ukraine out of trouble? Welcome to the Prodeko seminar on responsible business on 6 May!
The theme of this year's Prodeko seminar is Navigating Responsibility and Growth, and speakers include Kaisa Hietala, Exxon Mobil's Board of Directors, and Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO of Sievo Oy.

The 5G Hack the Mall summer course
This year鈥檚 Aalto University 5G summer course will again be held as an online training course from 6 to 17 June 2022.

Armi Tiihonen receives a postdoctoral grant from Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions program
The CEST researcher will study physics-informed machine learning to accelerate stability research on perovskite solar cells.

Biorefineries and Herbert Sixta in spotlight at 2022 seminar
Biorefineries research group annual seminar presented the latest developments in forest-based, sustainable refineries and analytical tools.

Aalto University boosts bold and new transdisciplinary research projects聽
13 interdisciplinary teams got internal seed funding for research that boldly pushes existing boundaries and contributes to creating a radically new kind of future

Artificial intelligence to assist the brain
Neuroscience and neurotechnology are gaining a fresh ally in the form of artificial intelligence, which can assess dementia risk and enhance the effectiveness of depression treatments.

Film Silence breaks a taboo
A short film directed by Saara Hakkarainen tells a story of a silenced secret.

Researchers merged quantum optics with a treasure hunt
One of the aims of InstituteQ, the national quantum institute, and the QPlayLearn platform developed by the institute鈥檚 researchers is to add our understanding of the significance of quantum research and technologies in the society. Now QPlayLearn has created The Photonic Trail game in collaboration with Quantum Flytrap.

Exhibition: Design creates equality
Exhibition "Design for Every Body" at Design Museum explores the importance of design from the perspective of equality.

Finland's first science satellite, Foresail-1, is ready for space
The satellite and its key instruments will launch in summer 2022.

Blood cancer cells and the immune system are best frenemies
The University of Helsinki and Aalto University collaborated in an international study, which demonstrated that the body's immune system is complicit in a rare type of blood cancer, suggesting a reconsideration of conventional knowledge on the disease.

Upcoming renovation in Harald Herlin Learning Centre
Upcoming renovation on the K-floor. Lockers will be emptied on Apr 11th 2022.

Design builds transformation capacity
The book Designing Change is a quick and readable cross-section of Aalto's world-leading design research

Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: 鈥淭he most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career鈥
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived 色色啦 in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.

The Rule of Two helps making spaces sound better
Researchers developed the new acoustic measurement technique in a room with more acoustic combinations than there are ants on Earth.

Researchers join forces with companies to develop low-carbon industrial production
Aalto University, the University of Oulu, and VTT, together with seven companies are searching for ways to reduce the environmental impact of industrial production, and for measures that can be combined in an environmentally responsible brand strategy.

A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user 鈥 and the user learns from the prosthesis
New research enables more functional and robust robotic prostheses.
