Nature-based group activities can reduce loneliness, improve sleep and cognition, and increase a sense of connection to nature in older adults living in care homes. Focusing on nature, including ...

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Tutustu kalasääskien elämään kuuden reaaliaikaista kuvaa välittävän kameran avulla. Pesistä viisi sijaitsee Pohjois-Satakunnassa ja yksi Lounais-Suomessa. Laji on ollut tutkijoiden tehokkaassa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated that certain strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson’s disease in most cases. The study enables the screening of ...

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 ...

Arviolta 77 % naisista ja 70 % miehistä saa elämänsä aikana jonkin mielenterveyden, käyttäytymisen tai neurokehityksen häiriön diagnoosin. Yleisimmät häiriöt ovat ahdistuneisuus- ja mielialahäiriöt.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through a wound triggers repair – a finding with ...

The University is suspending its exchange agreements with Israeli universities, but does not intend to restrict the academic freedom of its researchers to collaborate with their Israeli colleagues.

The University of Helsinki is strengthening its efforts to conduct ground-breaking new science that links the biodiversity of coastal habitats in time and space to carbon cycling, sequestration and ...

The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide. A new method to capture ...