A species of truffle that is considered to be rare has been found for the first time in Finland. Previously it has been thought to exist only in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The truffle ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

An ultimate goal in the field of carbon nanotube research is to synthesise single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with controlled chiralities. Twenty years after the discovery of SWNTs, scientists from Aalto ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Apr 29, 2013 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

Researchers at Aalto University have developed a purely geometric surface structure that is able to stop and control the spreading of liquids on different types of surfaces. The structure has an undercut ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Apr 24, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Marketing performance is a multidimensional phenomenon, the control of which requires simultaneous use of multiple performance indicators. In practice, the sets of marketing metrics and control systems used by companies differ ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Heikki Remes at the Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics, has developed a model making it possible to determine how fatigue sets in with various welded steel materials. ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Professor Mikko Alava and undergraduate Tuomo Hartonen of Aalto University Department of Applied Physics have modelled the work processes and human decision making in scientific peer review with the help of statistical physics. ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Apr 22, 2013 not rated yet 1

New materials will have a central role in many of the energy applications of the future. For instance, inexpensive and environmentally friendly thermoelectric materials will be capable of converting waste ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists at Aalto University, Finland and Fraunhofer ISE, Germany report an efficiency of 18.7% for black silicon solar cells, the highest efficiency reported so far for a black silicon solar cell.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 04, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers at Aalto University, the University at Buffalo, and Texas A&M University have proven a link between customers' use of social media and higher revenue.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

Decisions concerning innovations in the early stages of product development arise mostly from intuition. Olli Hyppänen has studied development work in strongly innovative ICT companies in his doctoral dissertation for the ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Netradar is a free service that provides neutral, accurate information about the quality of mobile Internet connections and mobile devices collected by end users themselves throughout the world. Unlike other ...

Technology - Telecom

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers from the Finnish Aalto University and the Technical Research Centre of Finland succeeded in showing experimentally that vacuum has properties not previously observed. According to the laws of ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 26, 2013 4.8 / 5 (35) 418 |

Information and communication technology has enabled us to solve complex problems in collaboration across the world. Everything from wiki-based platforms to open software development all the way to the experiments ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 20, 2013 3.6 / 5 (5) 2

(Phys.org)—Aalto University researchers in Finland have successfully connected a superconducting quantum bit, or qubit, with a micrometer-sized drum head. Thus they transferred information from the qubit ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 14, 2013 3.4 / 5 (5) 0 |

The researches of the Aalto University and the University of Oulu have succeeded to simulate a phenomenon called motional averaging, which demonstrates that in certain conditions externally-induced fast fluctuations ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 04, 2013 3.3 / 5 (4) 1