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Doctoral dissertation research investigated how the family environment in childhood affects health in midlife. The study showed that only children have a more unfavourable profile of risk factors for cardiovascular disease throughout their lives. Furthermore, exposure to parental smoking had a negative impact on cardiovascular health and cognitive performance even in middle age.

New study highlights the importance of lived experience, local knowledge, and community voices in climate change communication. The researchers call for climate policies and communication strategies in the Global South to move beyond broad, one-size-fits-all approaches and instead recognise the lived realities of the communities most exposed to climate change.

A recent study shows that the genetic makeup of the inhabitants of coastal and inland southwestern Finland diverged following migration from Sweden after the early Middle Ages. The findings also indicate that the Finnish region was already closely linked to the international networks of the Baltic Sea during the Viking Age.

According to a new study from the University of Turku, people sleep slightly longer when they work from home. However, they also sit more and are less physically active than on days when they work in the office.

A new study reveals that horse personality is not only a matter of genetics, age, or breed but also systematically linked to how horses are housed, ridden, and cared for, and to the quality of the relationship they share with their owners. The findings underscore the importance of everyday management decisions for equine personality and welfare.

Researchers have developed a new material called davyne that changes colour in the near-infrared region. The colour change cannot be detected with the human eye, but only with a spectrometer or an infrared-sensitive camera. The material could be used, for example, as an invisible anti-counterfeit tag.

Senior Research Fellow Satu Helske studies how the division of childcare within families has changed after the development of more equal parental leave systems in Finland and other European countries. Helske has received an ERC Starting Grant of €1.5 million for her study for a period of five years.

The democracy researchers of the University of Turku will be organising Finland’s largest-ever citizens’ assembly this coming winter to produce recommendations. The assembly is part of an initiative launched by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland, which maps the views of the Finnish population on work-based immigration on an exceptionally broad scale for the use of decision-makers.

Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state organic laser microcavity fabricated entirely by solution processing. The device operates in the strong light–matter coupling regime, where light and matter form hybrid states called polaritons. This makes the platform not only a new type of solution-processed laser but also a powerful way to study nonlinear polariton interactions.

The Elias Tillandz prize for the best scientific publication of 2025 was presented to a study demonstrating the potential of the long-form troponin in the diagnostics of myocardial infarction. The award was presented on Thursday, 27 August 2026 during the opening ceremony of the BioCity Symposium.