Current news at the Faculty of Mathematics and Science

Changing climatic conditions can alter microbial biomass and community composition, increase microbial activities and trigger decomposition of the organic matter in the deeper peat layers by changing microbial processes and indirectly by affecting...

As tension rises unexpected things can happen. This is also true for gold atoms. Researchers, have, for the first time, managed to make the surface of a gold object melt at room temperature.

Rodent mothers produce more offspring after smelling odors produced by frightened males.

About three per cent of the world’s population is affected by valvular heart diseases.

The Accelerator Laboratory (JYFL) is the northernmost large-scale facility for accelerator-based nuclear structure studies in the world, located at the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä climbed to the position 151–175 in the ranking of top universities. Times Higher Education – World University Rankings listed the top 463 universities in psychology.

University of Jyväskylä’s Laser laboratory of the Nanoscience Center (Laserlab-NSC) became a full member of Laserlab-Europe in the general assembly of the consortium at Salamanca, Spain.

A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of their disease stage respond to several microbes.

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have taken part in an international British-Finnish-Chinese collaboration where the first molecule capable of remembering the direction of a magnetic above liquid nitrogen temperatures has been prepared and...

Experts in superconductivity and ultrasensitive detectors of electromagnetic radiation meet 25.-26.9.2018 in Jyväskylä, marking the start of the four-year EU FET Open project SUPERTED.

Understanding plasma behaviour is of utmost importance for amongst others possible future energy generation exploiting the process of nuclear fusion and for ion extraction from laboratory plasmas.

Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and University of Tampere (Finland) together with BioNavis Ltd (Finland) have developed a novel nanoactuator system, where conformation of biomolecule can be tuned by electric field and probed using...