Without cyanobacteria, natural history wouldn’t be much to talk about. Now these billions of years old microbes help the development of bioenergy and medicines.
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Hip-hop heals wounds
“If The Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, were compiled today, the stories might well be recited by rappers,” says Researcher Dragana Cvetanović from the Aleksanteri Institute. Cvetanović is currently working on a dissertation on rap lyrics.
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Happy birthday Mr Dickens!
From Downton Abbey to X-men and The Wire, the celebrity Victorian writer strides on.
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What makes Finnish teachers special?
“Finnish teacher training and education can be seen as a new form of design, which can be applied all over the world,” says Professor Kirsi Tirri from the University of Helsinki.
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Lively discussion on the infamous China
Positive views on China rarely flow as abundantly as they did in the panel discussion organised in Porthania on 16 January.
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University sharpens its goals
The University of Helsinki aims to be among the fifty best universities in the world by 2020.
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Lymph vessel researchers are on a quest to fight public health diseases
A European-American research network coordinated by Academy Professor Kari Alitalo is investigating the role of lymph vessels in the development of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The project has received funding worth six million US dollars from a French foundation.
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- Helsinki University Museum
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