Researchers at the University of Turku's PET Centre and the Technical University of Munich have collaboratively demonstrated a new manner of activating brown fat and producing a sense of fullness. The results have been published in the esteemed journal Cell.
Brown fat consumes energy, reduces the amount of harmful cholesterol and improves the body’s sugar levels. Stock photo.
QS Rankings has ranked nearly 500 universities globally on the grounds of working life perspectives. The University of Turku was highly successful being ranked in the 300–500 class.
The University of Turku is in charge of organising a high-level event on climate change in the European Parliament today on Monday, 19 November. The event includes speeches by Finnish universities’ top researchers from different disciplines.
Quantum Garden is a citizen science project where everyone can contribute to solving a quantum physics research problem of crucial importance for the outbreak of quantum technologies. The project is a collaboration between the University of Turku, the School of Science and the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University and it is sponsored by the Centre for Quantum Engineering (CQE).
In a new study, researchers at the University of Turku and the University of Helsinki identified the diet of the most common Finnish bat species. The diet of the bats included a considerable amount of various invertebrates, including ground dwelling beetles, gnats, mosquitoes, and a wealth of moths. The researchers were able to determine a total of over 500 different prey species from the approximately 1,200 bat droppings collected for the study.
Nature is becoming less diverse all across the globe, which is also threatening the future of humankind. Researchers emphasise the fact that there is still hope, but now is the time to act.
Professors Kari Saikkonen and Ilari E. Sääksjärvi emphasise the need for protecting natural forests that are home to diverse species. In Finland, forests cover over 70% of the country’s surface area, but especially in the south most of it is commercial forest.
The Functional Foods Forum (FFF) at the University of Turku has conducted research on food for 15 years already. Their research on multisensory experiences, such as how listening to music can affect the sense of taste, was the starting point for a seminar organised in Turku in October 2018. In the event, various researchers and artists discussed the practical applications of sensory perception research.
Finnish-American research group has studied whether parents’ gender preferences and investment in offspring are affected by their status, wealth, education or childhood environment. Instead, parental preferences were best predicted by their sex. These results help to make sense of the often contradictory findings on offspring sex preferences.
The University of Turku establishes a new professorship focusing on the research of plants grown in Finland, supporting the export of Finnish foods based on sustainable development, and promoting well-being with healthy foods. For the first five years, the position's basic funding is provided by the Raisio plc’s Research Foundation.
