The Faculty of Social Sciences will confer four honorary doctorates in its May 2026 conferment ceremony. With the title of doctor honoris causa, the Faculty acknowledges individuals for their ...

The University of Helsinki’s top research areas draw together our strengths in research. Their themes also feature ...

Promoting the welfare of medical alert dogs is essential for sustaining effective, long-term human–animal partnerships. Through research and collaboration, we seek to advance a more balanced and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new genetic study carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women’s lifespan and biological aging. In the study, mothers of large families, women who ...

The gender-equality paradox, which argues that gender differences are more pronounced in more egalitarian countries and vice versa, has recently been extensively covered in the media. However, a new ...