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2011

week 34: The genotype of multiple sclerosis is being revealed week 33: Concave, convex or flat – how are cells sculpted?
week 24: Brain waves indicate the origin of speech
week 23: Pharmaceuticals meet chemicals
week 22: The eye is sick
week 21: When a baby’s heart fails
week 20: Good news for fusion reactor developers
week 19 : Twins of space, poles apart
week 18: Turbidity reduces pike stocks
week 17: Focusing on heat and aridity
week 16: Defective internal messenger in cells
week 15: Tapping the opportunities of lithium
week 14: Civilised justice for barbarians
week 13: Beavers annoy people but suit nature
week 12: Cannibalism pays off
week 9: : Asperger’s causes breaks in conversation
week 8: The life of small premature babies
week 6: Substitution treatment works well
week 5: Plastering the sea
week 4: The facts of genetic modification
week 3: Taxes discounted — since 1995
week 2: Focusing on Johannesburg
week 1: Violence in the blood

2010

week 51: Two-hand tumor stranglehold
week 50: Tracking the endangered
week 49: Risk of oil disaster in the Gulf of Finland may tripleweek 48: There are differences between space radiation metersweek 47: Different disciplines are indicated by language use week 46: Acid rain damages Pompeii wall-paintings
week 45: Switching to rapeseed oil is worth it
week 43: Help for ADHD
week 42: Cosy atmosphere, black lungs
week 41: A notion of the future of criminals
week 40: Treating cancer without causing damage to DNA
week 39: Eagerly anticipated” equals “good”
week 38: A slim waist is not always enough
week 37: What happens when leaves fall off?
week 36: The large tombs of the Iron Age
week 35: Migraine gene found
week 34: Going to school should be about individuals
week 33: A global map of human gene expression
week 32: Insular voles grow large
week 31: Sphagnum moss curbs methane emissions from mires
week 26: Vaccine-based polio is surprisingly dangerous
week 25: Unnecessary support and invention factories
week 23: Five kilos of gluttonous salmon
week 22: Dangerous cocktails
week 21: Spinach as a sensor
week 20: The newborn is busy developing its brain
week 19: Genotype is an excuse
week 18: Vegetation quickly reacts to climate changes
week 17: Light is shed on biology’s dark energy
week 16: Gene for height growth found
week 15: Sloth and algae co-exist
week. 14: The sex reversal of Lapland frogs
week 13: Direct action against pulp mills is effective
week 12: A gene atlas reveals new information about Finns week 11: The formula for making teeth will soon be found
week 10: Discrimination will not be eliminated by laws
week 9: On the trail of ozone destroyers
week 8: How do women use time in Italy?
week 7: Morality comes from people, not religion
Week 6: Genome of useful plants is being revealed
Week 5: Rude belching from northern peatlands
Week 4: Memory without electricity
Week 3: Modern moms don’t breast-feed?
Week 1: Dung and carcasses

2009

Week 53-54: One attack is enough
Week 52: Everyone loves the welfare state?
Week 50: Siberia's hardiest cattle
Week 48: Hope for the ice shelves of Antarctica
Week 47: What does risk feel like?
Week 46: Cleaner air warms the planet
Week 45: Microloans
Week 44: War children need to talk
Week 43: Endangered languages
Week 42: Cloud creation in dire straits
Week 41: In the warmth of nuclear power plant
Week 40: The brain – born from chaos
Week: 39: Mind over myth
Week 38: Warning signals from the Arctic
Week 37: Social relations - but with whom?
Week 36: A fungus that stops trees from sprouting
Week 35: Protein prevents Parkinson damage
Week 34: Persecutions of Christians in antiquity overemphasised
Week 33: Lessons in surviving an economic crisis
Week 32: A gene test to detect lactose intolerance
Week 25: Quantum chemists acting as oracles
Week 24: One dissertation for two universities
Week 23: Immigration laws need new thinking
Week 22: A tank full of forest
Week 21: Japanese and Bulgarian mountains in Kumpula
Week 20: A million words of English
Week 19: ADHD or not enough sleep?
Week 18: Waste Act impedes eco-efficiency
Week 17: Aggressive mothers succeed
Week 16: The right to water requires concrete actions
Week 15: Compensation may be awarded to Finns in post-war interment camps
Week 14: Reprieve for old trees
Week 13: Crowds are bad for the brains of fish
Week 12: Grim Reaper saves the plant
Week 11: Dazzling Marcury
Week 10: Letters reveal old Oxford
Week 9: Finnhorse hereditary diseases under investigation
Week 8: An enzyme finding contributes to a possible SARS cure
Week 6: Brain grab on
Week 5: Antidepressant, Alcohol or GABA?
Week 4: A Fungus that Produces Pulp
Week 3: Lithium valley of dreams
Week 1: The mind is more than the brain

2008

Week 1: Twinkling reveals an asteroid's shape
Week 2: Drinking together, but for personal enjoyment
Week 3: Drug users made into non-persons
Week 4: A no-nonsense conductor
Week 5: Boys' working memory is slower to develop
Week 6: The language of touch
Week 7: Eastern or Western history?
Week 8: Jackpot in Bolivia
Week 9: Bedridden
Week 10: Saving water with plants
Week 11: A big deal for cancer meds
Week 12: Being overweight makes for a poor engine
Week 13: Computer programs can do wonders
Week 14: The elite shaped development as they pleased
Week 15: Piglets appreciate stimuli
Week 16: A conservation model for Madagascar
Week 17: Arsenic isn't only lethal in whodunits
Week 18: Pain leads migraine researchers on the right track
Week 19: Smoking is partly genetic
Week 20: Well-being turns into competition
Week 21: Addressing mother helps curb caries
Week 22: Bones need vitamin D - on the double
Week 23: High risk of institutionalisation immediately after the death of a spouse
Week 24: Strange life forms in a salt lake
Week 25: Like Thirty Suns
Week 26: Dependency on electricity and bacteria
Week 31: Naked oat should be used to a greater extent
Week 32: A Fungus Can Break Up a Hormone Disruptor
Week 33: Language policy lacking in the EU
Week 33/b: New results in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease: Curbing the death of neurons
Week 34: The mystery of the shrinking gull
Week 35: New teachers are often left without help
Week 36: Restocking has not helped salmon stocks
Week 37: Psoriasis is much more than a skin diseas
Week 38: A new degenerative disease in the nervous system described
Week 39: Understanding wildly behaving stocks
Week 40: Hairless gene in dogs
Week 41: Selective drugs strike
Week 42: Rather than morphine
Week 43: Emotional people don't move far away
Week 44: Fear holds the reins
Week 45: Paedophilia - politicised and frightening
Week 46: Pain beyond words
Week 47: Finland's Nato membership thread by legal problems
Week 48: Open wide, this is your life
Week 49: Taking Measurements in Outer Space
Week 50: A frog's-eye view of the North
Week 51: Antennas on butterflies

2007

Week 2: Breathing reveals diseases
Week 3: The loss of one's parents can be distressing even for an adult
Week 4: Baby life in France and Finland
Week 5: Trees valuable for households in Sahara borderlands
Week 6: Urban residents facing urban problems
Week 7: Recurrent miscarriages and a tendency to thrombosis
Week 8: Multiculturalism thrives on tolerance
Week 9: A drug-free life demands good daily routines
Week 10: Questions help pinpoint medical problems
Week 11: Homicide is a sign of mental disorder
Week 12: Sun boosts asteroid's spin
Week 13: Music helps channel anxiety
Week 14: From gene discovery to cancer medicine
Week 15: Pollen samples tell about Bronze Age settlement
Week 16: Giving birth prevents fallopian tube cancer
Week 17: Treatment of bipolar disorder needs to be upgraded
Week 18: Glacial lake tells the story of climate change
Week 19: Digital images preserve lichen researchers' samples
Week 20: “I’ve watched it although I’m not old enough”
Week 21: The Puumala virus may damage the pituitary gland
Week 22: No love, no morality
Week 23: Mobile phone that tells where you arey
Week 24: Cannabis for pain relief?
Week 25: Internal loading maintains eutrophication of bays
Week 26: Neural network model combined with milking robot identifies lameness
Week 31: Fairer rules would help developing countries
Week 32: Play reflects the child's environment
Week 33: Prevention of environmental problems to focus on consumption
Week 34: Carotid plaque and stroke
Week 35: Lifestyle choices contribute to aortic valve stenosis
Week 36: Death becomes political in Pynchon’s works
Week 37: Multi-agency co-operation helps prevent marginalisation
Week 38: Molecular-level research into kidney diseases
Week 39: Finns love mobile phones but disapprove of chatter
Week 40: Peptide milk lowers blood pressurer
Week 41: New research on divorce risk
Week 42: A single patch sees the entire heart
Week 43: Paranormal cycling
Week 44: New breast during cancer operation
Week 45: Psychotherapy helps you find your own narrative
Week 46: Maize needs a friend
Week 47: On the soul of a human clone
Week 48: Snow that can carry the weight of a reindeer
Week 49: Where does mass go?
Week 50: Mammoths disappeared in steppes
Week 51: There may have been life on Venus
Week 52: New lymphatic vessels to cancer patients through gene therapy

2006

Week 1: Xenotransplantation still out of reach
Week 2: Bird flu spreads its wings Week 3: Damn competent academically
Week 3: Damn competent academically
Week 4: Slim female executives get fatter pay packets
Week 5: Children at the hem of the Finnish Maiden
Week 6: On the academic markets
Week 7: Can we agree to agree?
Week 8: Gene and cell transfers to help heart patients
Week 9: Men dominate in the operating theatre
Week 10: Added fibre improves your diet
Week 11: Global development is the driving force in gender equality policies
Week 12: There is more to it than good grades
Week 13: No reward for smart girls in working life
Week 14: When early Finnish history became politicised
Week 15: A number concept test reveals a child's mathematical development
Week 16: We breathe with our cells
Week 17: Cyanobacteria in the food chain?
Week 18: The Chernobyl fallout will be evident in nature for a long time
Week 19: Can war be justified?
Week 20: Even forests need to be restored
Week 21: Fair coffee trade
Week 22: Waking up the nerve cells
Week 23: Athletes use more medication than others
Week 24: For whom the bluebells toll?
Week 25: TV watching linked to children's sleep disturbances
Week 26: A white lie called life
Week 27: Financial hardship can undermine mental health
Week 31: I eat, therefore I exist
Week 32: The Nathusius's pipistrelle is the newest species of mammal in Finland
Week 33: Parent-professional partnerships important for mothers with disabled children
Week 34: The Finnish Spitz helps in human epilepsy research
Week 35: Both meaningful and complete nonsense
Week 36: Young people from the Swedish-speaking minority commit fewer crimes
Week 37: A Russian's clock is on the same time
Week 38: The first tree genotype has been mapped
Week 39: The YWCA's devout members have had energy to spare
Week 40: Helsinki lives up to its reputation
Week 41: Women technology researchers in the spotlight
Week 42: Intuition steers attitudes towards change in an organisation
Week 43: SARS provided useful exercise
Week 44: The wealthier the country, the safer the traffic
Week 45: New solutions to problems with diamond coatings
Week 46: Interruptions in work are not a problem for experienced workers
Week 47: Restrictions fail to reduce fine particles in exhaust emissions

Week 48: Even unborn children recognise sounds
Week 49: Vitamin C shortens the duration of the common cold
Week 50: Belief in the supernatural stems from childhood
Week 51: Young smokers are likely to smoke as adults

2005

Week 2: Onto a space lift?
Week 3: Panic in crisis can be avoided
Week 4: Burnout is a work-related illness
Week 5: Circulating capital steers decisions in organisations
Week 6: 18th century girls were taught a natural disposition
Week 7: Edith Södergran - the herald of modernism
Week 8: Is there life in the space?
Week 9: Physics as the new lingua franca
Week 10: Women are more analytical than men
Week 11: Will exegetics ruin the Church?
Week 12: Immune reaction causes loosening of hip prostheses
Week 13: The bear is a sacred animal
Week 14: Jingle that brings back memories
Week 15: What is time?
Week 16: Architecture and Indology
Week 17: Theologians brought Finnish to the University
Week 18: Shopping paradises change consumer behaviour
Week 19: Plants improve the wellbeing of the elderly
Week 20: Overtime may show in the waistline
Week 21: Work and marriage improve women's health
Week 22: Older women give up their driving licences more easily than men
Week 23: Society dominated by women confuses refugees
Week 24: Tracing the meanings of words
Week 25: Nicotine might help in Parkinson's disease
Week 26: Satanism in the media
Week 27: Dieting can shorten your life
Week 31: Selenium improves plant growth and harvest quality
Week 32: IT expertise requires a particular way of speaking
Week 33: The editor is present when you read the paper
Week 34: Tough methods don't work
Week 35: The mind of a genius needs a stimulating learning environment
Week 36: The mysterious Spanish influenza
Week 37: Forest fires are naturally rarer in Northern Finland
Week 38: Stomach bugs in surface waters a nuisance for ramblers
Week 39: Obesity is linked to social status
Week 40: Evolution can be predicted
Week 41: Group rehabilitation works for severe aphasia
Week 42: Small calves should be accustomed to people from early on
Week 43: Rediscovered city may reveal secrets about Maya culture
Week 44: Who is going to save the world?
Week 45: Stepfamily problems stem from concepts of motherhood
Week 46: Ozone depletion continues in circumpolar regions
Week 47: From pest control to the Trojan gene
Week 48: Diamonds in Finland?
Week 49: Higher education does not guarantee a job
Week 50: The homogenisation of milk not linked to stomach pains
Week 51: Looking for the 'fat gene'

2004

Week 3: Can you split words?
Week 4: Everyday life in a Pompeian quarter
Week 5: A friend of convicts was deemed a threat
Week 6: Flax fibre turns into car parts
Week 7: Economic depression strengthened regional identities
Week 8: What makes a city beautiful?
Week 9: Dwarf shrubs defeat heavy metals
Week 10: Computer looking for the difference between man and mouse
Week 11: New technology will not halt urbanisation
Week 12: Japanese and Finnish united by long vowels
Week 13: No-till technology gives better barley yields
Week 14: At the source of mysticism
Week 15: People need EU debate
Week 16: Prostitution debate imprisoned by free will
Week 17: Narrow genetic base breaking dogs’ hips
Week 18: Speech has its own grammar
Week 19: A unique manuscript found in the Alexandria library
Week 20: Gay jokes ruin many people's days
Week 21: A bacterium called Hermanni
Week 22: Regulation of human clinical trials on the increase
Week 23: Webcams to fight visual control
Week 24: Innovations for our changing lives
Week 25: More accurate X-rays to diagnose cancer
Week 26: Why do young men need speed?
Week 27: Archaeology on the Karelian Isthmus
Week 28: Summer is a hectic time for the black ant
Week 32: Banned use of sense
Week 33: Cholesterol-lowering drugs can cause harmful interactions
Week 34: Thin films, atom for atom
Week 35: On the verge of normality
Week 36: Who says small-scale entrepreneurs are losers?
Week 37: Artificial intelligence helps discover the past
Week 38: Phytoestrogens prove ineffective for menopausal symptoms
Week 39: How to make a good white out of a poor white?
Week 40: Detecting medicine residues in meat
Week 41: The Baltic countryside left to its own devices
Week 42: Patients unaware of their medication
Week 43: Temperament shows in stress
Week 44: Top finds on Bolivian highlands
Week 45: The highs and lows of Finnish popular music
Week 46: The afterlife in the Gospel according to Luke
Week 47: Ground water quality improved
Week 48: Finnish women don’t date
Week 49: Finnish POWs in the Soviet Union
Week 50: Starch-based films keep cakes fresh
Week 51: Competition between species curbs selfishness?
Week 52: Peace and friendship in Anni Swan's Christmas stories

2003

Week 37: The cradle of a star is amidst a layer of clouds
Week 38: The urban space tells about its time
Week 39: A demanding cocktail recipe under study
Week 40: Ancient fish
Week 41: Islamic everyday life
Week 42: The health effects of mobile phones under study
Week 43: Family background can lead to learning difficulties
Week 44: Northerners in Gothenburg
Week 45: Death has its cause
Week 46: Predators drive the lemming cycle
Week 47: How do aerosol particles develop?
Week 48: Study on lymphatic vessels produces new medication
Week 49: Supporting employment is always worthwhile
Week 50: Food changes – do we?
Week 51: Tomorrow's mobile technologies
Week 52: Christmas is the holiday most steeped in tradition