Research news and articles

A new book by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its post-colonial legacies in the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Activity monitors make men appear more active than women because they have better physical fitness. The result emphasizes that maintaining physical fitness is crucial to sustaining an active lifestyle as we age.

A new AI-based tool for identifying colorectal cancer from tissue sample analysis has been developed at the University of Jyväskylä.

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä's Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences have found that women who exhibit disturbed eating behaviours and engage in low physical activity tend to have more central body fat and a higher risk of metabolic low-grade

PrecisionPhage aims at furthering the utilisation of phage research and innovative phage technologies against global health threat of antibiotic resistance.

Researchers have developed a new multifactor authentication method that aims to replace passwords.

The professor of quantum computing Teiko Heinosaari is constantly seeking new ways to reach new audiences.

The global SuperC consortium wants to realize a superconductor capable of operating at room temperature within a decade. If all its objectives are met, it will have a huge impact on global energy consumption.

NordForsk has funded a collaborative project on sustainable fishing to combat climate change and develop concrete measures for protecting marine biodiversity. The project is coordinated by the University of Jyväskylä.

Researchers measured very precisely atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear binding energies. The masses for the two most exotic isotopes were measured for the first time.

According to a recent study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, eating behaviour is associated with symptoms of pelvic floor disorders in middle-aged women.

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä examined the perspectives of early childhood education teachers participating in a two-year pre-primary education trial.