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Digital Twins in biodiversity offer large yet untapped potential for both scientists and policymakers. Credit: Piret Ehrenpreis.

University of Tartu: AI technologies at the centre of innovation in biodiversity data management

Semubot will be an open source project: it can be adapted, rebuilt and improved by any end user. This photo is illustrative. Credit: Renee Altrov

Tartu students build Estonia’s first humanoid robot

"The key issue in reducing the environmental impact of the global economy is how to move from carbon mining to carbon recycling," says Valgepea. Credit: Andres Tennus

European research grant facilitates production of valuable fuels and chemicals using microbial cell factories

Kuldar Taveter is helping computers understand humans better. Photo credit: private collection

Teaching robots how to feel

The survival of populations is increasingly influenced by their capacity to withstand extremely high temperatures and droughts as well as their ability to adapt to new species entering their territories. Credit: Karl Ander Adami

Safeguarding Europe’s Natural Symphony: the Importance of Biodiversity Monitoring

Uuemaa and her colleagues will use geoinformatics and machine learning to plan riparian buffer zones to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture. Credit: Rainer Süvirand

Geoinformatics: We are sitting on a pot of gold without even realizing it

The role of human beings does not disappear from the administration of justice and legal work, but it is amplified with the help of technologies. Credit: Jelena Rudi

Professor: Legal Professionals Must Invest in Digital Education and Technology to Stay Competitive

Opera singing is often quite physical, so it is compared to top-level sport. Credit: Pixabay

Research: Tricks that make opera sound less incomprehensible

“If you start thinking about an oil spill after it happened, then it's too late!” said Jan-Victor Björkqvist, a researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Photo credit: Baltic Work Boats

Preventing disasters! Researchers mapped how oil moves in the sea

Managerial positions can be occupied by individuals with both suitable and unsuitable values for leadership, depending on the specific country and the value under consideration. Photo credit: Rasmus Jurkatam

Ambitious and creative people are more likely to become leaders

Marlon Dumas, a University of Tartu professor and a computer scientist, is a keynote speaker at sTARTUp Day 2024. Photo: Maanus Kullamaa for Excite magazine / Execution Ekspress Meedia Special Solutions

An expert view: how to integrate artificial intelligence into your company?

This year, seven researchers from Estonian universities made it to the top of the science world. Photo credit: Patrik Tamm

Here’s advice from the top talent in the science world

Estonian scientists develop new shipwreck pollution prediction system

Estonia is taking significant steps toward embracing the concept of a circular economy. Credit: Renee Altrov

Survey: What Are the Obstacles to Transitioning to a Circular Economy in Estonia?

One of two denim fabrics with optimal laser fading: an output of 14 W and a 230 mm/s laser speed. One of two denim fabrics with optimal laser fading: an output of 14 W and a 230 mm/s laser speed. Author/Source: Nele Mandre

An Estonian industrial PhD student found a way to extend the durability of denim

ESTCube-2 is Estonia's most research-intensive satellite and has been mostly built by students. Credit: ESTCube-2

Estonia’s ESTCube-2 satellite launched into orbit

Weather is sparking many changes. What about taste? Photo credit: Pixabay

Global warming is changing how food tastes

Researchers at Tallinn University of Technology are working towards making the chemical industry safer and more sustainable. Photo credit: TalTech - Hernandez Sorokina

Researchers of the School of Science of TalTech revived a method abandoned a century ago. Why?

a) Example of a bog mummy (Rabivere, Estonia); b) the severed head of a bog mummy (Stidsholt, Denmark); c) bog skeleton (Luttra, Sweden); and d) disarticulated skeletal remains (Alken Enge, Denmark). Source: Estonian National Museum (a); Nationalmuseet Copenhagen (b); Jan Kask (c); Peter Jensen (d)).

Bogs, bones and bodies: Violent past of northern European mires

Estonian Representation in Brussels, in collaboration with the Estonian Research Council and European' 1+ Million Genomes' Initiative. The gathering aimed to foster connections and share vital information about the upcoming ambitious endeavour. Photo credit: Simon Blackley

Science Communication in Practice: An Evening of Networking in Brussels

Hedvig Tamman, associate professor of genetics at the University of Tartu. Photo: Private collection

University of Tartu researcher receives prestigious grant to study the arms race between bacteria and viruses

What is the role of the teacher? A designerly way of thinking brings big questions to classrooms. Photo credit: Pixabay

An Estonian island school is designing education

People swallow up to 100,000 microplastic particles per day, same as if we ate one credit card a year. Photo source: Unsplash/Claire Abdo

Marine biologist: a person consumes a credit card’s worth of microplastics per year

Vääna-Jõesuu flounder.Vääna-Jõesuu flounder. Source: Tiit Hunt/CC BY-SA 3.0

Baltic Sea pollution puts fish cancer defenses to the test

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