The research project at the University of Helsinki is making strides in enabling the use of simpler, one-lens cameras for measuring distance and motion in computer vision. “In the past six months, we ...

Welcome to multidisciplinary Viikki campus. Viikki is located in the geographical centre of Helsinki. Characteristic to the area are broad fields and the bay of Vanhankaupunginlahti, which is a ...

A University of Helsinki study tracked 23,000 individuals from Finland and the UK, aged 30 to 50 at the outset, over a period of 12 to 35 years. Health benefits were found in overweight men and women ...

Large-scale cognition study The sample consisted of 1,002 Finnish dogs that took part in the smartDOG cognitive test battery. SmartDOG is a company owned by co-author Katriina Tiira, offering various ...

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 ...

5-6 September 2024, Helsinki, FinlandOn the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Alva Noë's Action In Perception, a seminal work in enactivist theory, this conference brings together leading ...

The research centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in Latvia (7500–2500 cal. BC), where more than 2,000 animal teeth have been excavated from graves. While previous studies focused on the symbolic ...

No direct ownership in Israeli companies The University of Helsinki has no direct ownership in Israeli businesses or in companies listed by the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) ...

IUFRO, or the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, established twelve new task forces for the period 2025–2029. One of them is called Interaction and Synergy of Carbon "3S" (Sink, ...

Researchers from the canine gene research group at the University of Helsinki collected an enormous behavioural survey dataset encompassing more than 11,000 dogs, investigating environmental and other ...

Lake Saimaa, a highly labyrinthine lake in eastern Finland, provides a unique opportunity for assessing the effects of population fragmentation. The lake hosts a population of ringed seals (Pusa ...

In a new article published in the journal Biological Conservation, a team of researchers from the University of Helsinki, University of Jyväskylä, and University of Kent assessed preferences and ...