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Kuppimaiset resorsinareeni-molekyylit kiertyvät itsensä ympärille sekä kiinteässä tilassa että liuoksessa. Jyväskylän yliopisto/Kaisa Helttunen

Chemists from Jyväskylä made flexible molecular cups - can be filled with toluene

Researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, from University of Jyväskylä prepared flexible cup-shaped molecules, which have similar properties in solid state and in solution.

The Academy of Finland granted funding for three Academy Projects at the University of Jyväskylä

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment granted funding for three Academy Projects at the University of Jyväskylä.

Age, participation in organised sports and some temperament traits are significant factors in the development of children’s motor skills

A recent study among 3- to 7–year-old children showed that children’s motor skills benefitted if a child was older and participated in organised sports.

Kyyn sahalaitakuvio on tuttu ja tunnistettava. Se tekee kyystä vaikeammin havaittavan, varoittaa saalistajaa myrkyllisyydestä ja auttaa pakenevaa kyytä vaikeuttamalla liikkeen suunnan ja nopeuden havaitsemista. Kuvat: Jyväskylän yliopisto/Janne Valkonen

The European viper uses cloak-and-dazzle to escape predators

Research of the University of Jyväskylä demonstrates that the characteristic zig-zag pattern on a viper's back performs seemingly opposing functions during a predation event.

In upper panel: Schematic structure of the Brillouin zone in multiband superconductor Ba1−xKxFe2As2. For the low doping level it consists of one electron and two hole Fermi pockets. With the increase of the doping level the electron pockets disappear so that the Fermi surface undergoes the so called Lifshitz transition. In lower panel: Structure of spontaneous magnetic field generated around spherically symmetric inhomogeneity shown by the black sphere at the origin in s+is and s+id superconducting...

Observation of a novel state with broken time reversal symmetry in multiband superconductors

With the help of muon spin relaxation measurements physicists have observed spontaneous magnetic fields emerging inside the superconducting state of the metallic compounds Ba1−xKxFe2As2 within a certain range of K doping level (0.

Parents that know a child’s preferences can assertively guide exercise

A parent who knows a child’s preferences and participates in the activities can guide the child assertively without diminishing the child’s enthusiasm for physical activity and exercise.

Miten kala valitsee kutukumppanin? Jyväskylän yliopistossa kalojen parinvalintaa tutkitaan seeprakalojen avulla. Kuva: Jyväskylän yliopisto/Johanna Hippeläinen

Fishing can disrupt mating systems

In many fish species body size plays an important role in sexual selection.

Changes in the mean-squared charge radii of the copper isotopes. The inset shows the zig-zag pattern, and how it gets smaller towards N=50. Credit: CRIS collaboration

State-of-the-art laser spectroscopy reveals intricate patterns in the sizes of radioactive isotopes of copper

In a paper recently published in Nature Physics, Ruben de Groote from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and an international team of researchers from Manchester University (UK) and KU Leuven (Belgium) present measurements of the size of...

PISA 2018 Financial literacy: Robust skills and responsible use of money among Finnish students

The results of the PISA 2018 financial literacy assessments were published in 20 countries on Thursday.

Solu- ja molekyylibiologian dosentti Varpu Marjomäki Jyväskylän yliopistosta on tutkinut pitkään enteroviruksen infektiomekanismeja. Tuoreessa tutkimuksessa kehitetty rokote ykköstyypin diabetesta vastaan perustuu enterovirusinfektion estämiseen. Kuva: Jyväskylän yliopisto

Possible vaccine for virus linked to type 1 diabetes

According to many observations, certain virus infections may play a part in the autoimmune attack that leads to type 1 diabetes.

Kuvassa a: Polymerisoituneen klusteriketjun rakenne (kulta: oranssi, hopea: vihreä). Ligandimolekyylit on kuvattu harmailla tikuilla. Kuvassa b: Metalliatomien pakkausjärjestys polymeeriketjussa. Kuva: Peng Yuan, Xiamenin yliopisto

Researchers find a new way to make functional materials based on polymers of metal clusters

Researchers in the universities of Jyväskylä and Xiamen have discovered a novel way to make functional macroscopic crystalline materials out of nanometer-size 34-atom silver-gold intermetallic clusters.

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