News from innovation ecosystem
A sustainable web: new tool helps webpage designers reduce runaway energy consumption
The open service analyses websites and identifies ways to improve data usage.
Blind trust in enhancement technologies encourages risk-taking even if the tech is a sham
A placebo effect can make users overconfident when they think tech is helping them
Energy saved significantly - the community's actions have produced results in Aalto
Aalto University has reached the energy efficiency goal of its facilities.
Students helped the Finnish Meteorological Institute develop its sustainability work
The content and working methods of the project could also be adapted agilely during the project according to newly identified needs
Can a city store as much carbon as a forest?
A new tool helps show how growing cities can remain carbon neutral
Chat AIs can role-play humans in surveys and pilot studies
Synthetic data from large language models can mimic human responses in interviews and questionnaires. Research data from popular crowdsourcing platforms may now contain fake responses that cannot be reliably detected, raising the risk of poisoned data
Future events: Symposium - What Transdisciplinary Knowledge Looks Like
ABRA symposium - “What Transdisciplinary Knowledge Looks Likeâ€
A sugar extracted from biowaste can provide a sustainable and more efficient method for sound absorption and thermal insulation
Researchers at Aalto University have discovered a way to convert polysaccharides from biowaste into a material that can outperform glass wool and other commercially used sound absorption materials with similar thickness.
Researchers at Aalto develop a new technology to let immobilized patients control devices with their brain
A new project at Aalto University is developing techniques that will enable immobilized patients to control devices using their brain activity. The project builds on the multi-locus transcranial magnetic stimulation (mTMS) technology developed at Aalto, adapting it into a brain–computer interface (BCI) that can help patients with neurological conditions.
What is academic advising? Listen to a podcast
The final season of the future-led learning podcast takes us to a very practical level. The themes of the season include the current themes of academic guidance, inclusion in teaching, co-teaching and sustainable development. In the fourth episode of the season host Riikka Evans discusses academic advising and how it supports the student's studies with senior university lecturer Kyösti Ruuttunen.
Sit less and move a bit - mobile everyday life for everyone
Making exercise breaks easy during workdays and lessons
PatternLab course's outcomes in Prisma stores
The collaboration has enabled students to have experience in building a commercial range and also strengthened Finnish design in Prisma's own brands.
Wellbeing in academic institutions - a key note lecture by Liisa Postareff
"Everyone in an academic community is responsible for enhancing academic wellbeing", says Liisa Postareff. She is one of the key note lecturers at Green Minds, Healthy Hearts -Social Sustainability Symposium on May 30th in Harald Herlin Learning Center and in stream.
Major EU-funded mathematics research project unveils the meaning of similarity – and helps fill gaps in physics theories
New research project uses symmetries to build links between random phenomena
Astronomers image a black hole’s shadow and powerful jet together for the first time
Aalto’s Metsähovi Radio Observatory took part in capturing the new image.
Inclusive teaching practices at Aalto – highlights from course feedback
Student feedback is an important factor in creating an inclusive learning environment at Aalto University. Especially course feedback supports the interaction in a course and provides important information for development work at many levels. A question about inclusion was added as a common question to all course feedback surveys at Aalto last autumn. Now Aalto EDI-team together with Oasis of Radical Wellbeing has summarized the results and you can read more about the highlights here.
One in four internet users are overwhelmed by the clutter in their browser
Study reveals that some coping strategies only make the problem worse
Aalto University to host Nordic Five Tech (N5T) alliance annual meeting in May 2023 
Aalto University will host the Presidents' and Annual Meeting of the Nordic Five Tech (N5T) Alliance on May 23-24, 2023. The meeting aims to foster dialogue amongst the N5T alliances and address collaboration, mobility, and innovation. 
It’s not as difficult as you think to shout upwind
Researchers unveil and explain a common-sense misunderstanding
A new treatment for multidrug-resistant bacteria
Researchers have developed a drug that undercuts antibiotic resistance
