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Petri Ala-Laurila and Guy Julier tell why the retina offers a pathway to the secrets of the brain and why design should be done with publics.
Sound waves can be perfectly redirected at will by engineered thin layer
A new field of research at Aalto publishes its first results in Nature Communications.
New research project on digital twins
The project partners include Aalto University, Konecranes, Siemens Osakeyhtiö, Ideal PLM, RD Velho and Remion.
EU:lta kiistanalainen ehdotus digitaalisten tulojen verottamisesta jäsenvaltioissa
Tekniikka ja Talous -lehti on julkaissut Totti Könnölän, Ilkka Lakaniemen ja Ahti Salon artikkelin digitaalisten tulojen verottamisesta. Kirjoittajat tutkivat Aalto-yliopistossa alustatalouden haasteita Suomen Akatemian Platform Value Now -projektissa.
AI-created family trees confirm class divisions in Finland in the 18th and 19th century
The genealogy algorithm AncestryAI efficiently combines huge amounts of birth data.
Sanna Lehto and Antonina Sedakova win at Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography
Sedakova takes Exception de Mixmind prize for collaboration in China while Lehto wins Public Prize in photography.
Ultrafast laser pulse created by golden nanoparticles
The creation of a fast, tunable and stable nanoparticle-array laser is a stepping stone to affordable and efficient sensing and switching.
Doctoral dissertation: Finland falling behind in competition for foreign regional headquarters
Regional headquarters have moved to Sweden or closer to mandated markets such as Russia, the Baltics or Poland, according to the doctoral dissertation by Iiris Saittakari.
Helsinki to host Europe’s leading transport event in 2020
Transport Research Arena brings together science, industry and politics.
What if retirement homes were replaced with grandma’s cottage? New article and video series begins
New article and video series looks into the future – and shows how people at Aalto are building it.
Highlights from DigiSummit in Berlin
Key companies, government representatives and researchers from Finland and Germany gathered in Berlin on 19-20 April 2018 for a German-Finnish DigiSummit.
UWAS Experiments, spring 2018 (Dipoli, Otaniemi)
The exhibition presents works from three University-Wide Art Studies (UWAS) courses together with research material produced by the members of the UWAS working group.
What if retirement homes were replaced with grandma’s cottages? And what if touchscreens could be bent into any shape?
New article and video series looks into the future – and shows how people at Aalto are building it.
2.7 billion tweets confirm: echo chambers in Twitter are very real
Bipartisan users, who try to bridge the echo chambers, pay a price for their work: they become less central in their network, lose connections to their communities and receive less endorsements from others.
Einstein’s “spooky action” goes massive!
The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size. Results published in Nature show how two vibrating drumheads, the width of a human hair, can display the spooky action.
Petri Ala-Laurila: The retina offers a pathway to the secrets of the brain
This Professor, awarded for his scientific courage, knows that it’s worth going after the big “fish” even if you don’t always catch it.
Professor Guy Julier has trust in being lost
Design should be done with publics, says Professor Julier who also wants to learn more about the growing world of self-organization – and skating.
Academy of Finland Flagship funding for Aalto University and VTT to develop new biomaterials
Aalto University and VTT will set up a competence center to develop new materials for securing a sustainable future.
Rare metals need efficient recycling
How can the valuable ingredients of batteries be recovered? What could replace bismuth, tellurium and many other rarities? These issues are being examined by the CloseLoop project.
A new Bose–Einstein condensate created at Aalto University
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland are the first to create a Bose–Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal electrons, so-called surface plasmon polaritons.
