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A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting words

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The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into a carbon source, exacerbating the effects of climate change.

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Aalto University researchers adapt a novel force measurement technique to uncover the previously unidentified physics at play at the thin air-film gap between water droplets and superhydrophobic surfaces.

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The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured.

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Adjustments and flexibility are necessary to live without a smartphone

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New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off

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Experts from Finland available to comment on policies that create happiness

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Individual wellbeing doesn’t always add up to team wellbeing – but reflection and open communication can help

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New analysis shows that the global freshwater cycle has shifted far beyond pre-industrial conditions

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Researchers have discovered how to make a new optical metamaterial that would underpin a variety of new technologies.

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Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki studied how real-world shocks affect online discussions, and found that disinformation reinforces polarization.

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Expert calls for coordinated climate regulation within a decade to decarbonize construction

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Researchers tease apart the relationships between bacterial languages

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A new analysis shows where and how industrial agriculture is most sensitive to disruptions

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New research suggests sleepiness during virtual meetings is caused by mental underload and boredom. Earlier studies suggested that fatigue from virtual meetings stems from mental overload, but new research from Aalto University shows that sleepiness during virtual meetings might actually be a result of mental underload and boredom.

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The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new study from Aalto University

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Researchers at Aalto University are investigating how a zombie plague would spread through Finland. It’s a light-hearted project, but it offers serious insights into global challenges, such as containing a pandemic or coping with disinformation.

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This DarkQuantum consortium was awarded €12.9 million on October 26 by the European Research Council, of which roughly €2 million is set aside for Aalto University researchers.

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A revised method to create hydrophobic surfaces has implications for any technology where water meets a solid surface, from optics and microfluidics to cooking

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Coatings made from a wood by-product can keep our glasses and windshields clear

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New research sheds light on where and how we feel different kinds of love

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New research shows that socio-economic factors play a larger role than climate

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Experiments promote a curious flipside of decaying monopoles: a reality where particle physics is quite literally turned on its head

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A team from Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä have created an artificial quantum magnet featuring a quasiparticle made of entangled electrons, the triplon.

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A better way to wirelessly charge over long distances has been developed at Aalto University.

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Bioengineers have found a way to program the size and shape of virus particles by combining viral protein building blocks and templates made from DNA. The resulting nanostructures could have applications in vaccine development and transporting drugs inside the body.

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Researchers have been looking for ways to decompose sound into its basic ingredients for over 200 years. In the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier proposed that any signal, including sounds, can be built using sufficiently many sine waves. These waves sound like whistles, each have their own frequency, level and start time, and are the basic building blocks of sound.

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Wildfires are becoming more common, but machine learning can help cut them short

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The new findings challenge the conventional understanding of solar dynamics and could improve predictions of solar weather in the future

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Scientists in Finland have developed a nanodevice that can measure the absolute power of microwave radiation down to the femtowatt level at ultra-low temperatures – a scale trillion times lower than routinely used in verifiable power measurements. The device has the potential to significantly advance microwave measurements in quantum technology.

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A placebo effect can make users overconfident when they think tech is helping them

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Synthetic data from large language models can mimic human responses in interviews and questionnaires. Research data from popular crowdsourcing platforms may now contain fake responses that cannot be reliably detected, raising the risk of poisoned data.

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A new tool helps show how growing cities can remain carbon neutral.

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A new project at Aalto University is developing techniques that will enable immobilized patients to control devices using their brain activity. The project builds on the multi-locus transcranial magnetic stimulation (mTMS) technology developed at Aalto, adapting it into a brain–computer interface (BCI) that can help patients with neurological conditions.

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A global network of radio telescopes worked together as a single super-sized, high-resolution telescope to create the first image showing a black hole’s shadow and plasma jet at the same time.

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One in four internet users are overwhelmed by the clutter in their browser, and some coping strategies only make the problem worse.

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Researchers unveil and explain a common-sense misunderstanding

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Researchers have developed a drug that undercuts antibiotic resistance

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The new smart sensor uses embedded information to detect motion in a single video frame

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Smart surfaces mimic elusive photonic time crystals

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Researchers show how energy disappears in quantum turbulence. The discovery paves way for a better understanding of turbulence in scales ranging from the microscopic to the planetary

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Rresearchers at Aalto University in Finland and IAS Tsinghua University in China report a new way to predict how quantum systems, such as groups of particles, behave when they are connected to the external environment. Usually, connecting a system such as a quantum computer to its environment creates decoherence and leaks, which ruin any information about what’s happening inside the system. Now, the researchers developed a technique which turns that problem into its a solution.

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Reactive fabrics respond to changes in temperature