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A recent study has shown that annual songbird populations are shaped more by adult overwintering survival and less by the number of fledglings they produced in the previous summer. A study from the ...

Digital Geography Lab aims at understanding society through interactions between people, and between people and their environment, from a geographical perspective. Much of our work uses people’s ...

Most of the almost 1,300 respondents rated supervision as well as the support from the research community and supervisors positively. The responses to the PhD survey, targeted at University of ...

Viikki Wood and Forest Innovation Hub hosts together with Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) the Nature and Forest Pitching Competition in Y Science 2025! Bringing forth the value of ...

A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds – their colours and shapes – predicts which wild species are traded by people. By analysing data for over 9000 bird species, researchers ...

At the Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), at University of Helsinki, we investigate human auditory and crossmodal cognition, as well as their impairments and plasticity. The main research areas are ...

The Aleksanteri Institute is one of the largest and best-known centres in the field of Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies. Our research is embedded within international scholarly networks, ...

A University of Helsinki study found that partially replacing red and processed meat with pea- and faba bean–based foods resulted in reduced total and ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels in men, along with ...

Doctoral Researcher Yasith R. Wanigarathna received the Best Student Paper Award at the 45th IEEE ICDCS 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ...

Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, nestled between Saana Fell and and Lake Kilpisjärvi, offers an exceptional setting for natural science and local culture research in Northern Finland. Year after year, ...

The key content of the Sustainability Highlights 2024 describes the realisation of the University’s first sustainability and responsibility plan. The report includes also examples of other ...