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Do fish get cancer?
Identity in Estonia can be verified online either by connecting an ID-card with the computer or via mobile phone. Photo credit: Rasmus Jurkatam
Algorithms run the Estonian government, and people trust it
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Increasing fragmentation of the forest cover in Brazil’s Legal Amazon
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A university project turned into a driverless bus
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Coronavirus is ten times more prevalent than previously thought
Coal is a big polluter, but it's still a cheap way to produce energy. Photo credit: Pixabay
Should wood become cheaper than fossil fuel?
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Screening test by University of Tartu scientists for early identification of the risk for preeclampsia
Roboticist Indrek Must is using textile made of carbon to create robot skin. Photo credit: Andres Tennus
New skin-like robot could turn us into superhumans
Lemons. Photo credit: Arianka Ibarra
University of Tartu scientists turned citric acid into novel bioplastic
Around half of the population is retired in Transnistria. A stroll through Tiraspol during lockdown. Photo credit: private collection
Surviving isolation in an isolated place
Researchers at TalTech Centre for Biorobotics Jeffrey Andrew Tuhtan and Asko Ristolainen. Private collection.
The underwater sensors help adapting to climate change
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New giant database helps find medication and diagnose hereditary diseases
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Researchers identified potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Modelling of breaking wave dynamics in port engineering improved
DNA analysis of food helps identify its actual components. Photo: Private collection of Kairi Raime
Novel DNA analysis will help to identify food origin and counterfeit food in the future
For some strange reason, the world often slides over the Baltic Finnic region. On this photo, Baltic Viking Age fans in Kiruvere Muinaslaager, an Estonia-based gathering of Iron Age enthusiasts. Credit: Tiit Blaat / Ekspress Meedia
Baltic Finns were Vikings too, but the world ignores it
Electrochemical characterisation of the electrodes of supercapacitor. Photo credit: TalTech
TalTech materials engineers develop flexible supercapacitors for space technology
Nanoscience is offering a surprising glimmer of hope in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo credit: Ilja Makarenkov
A new nanomaterial could kill coronaviruses
Professor Muhammad Mahtab Alam brought new out-of-the-box ideas with him when joining Tallinn University of Technology. Photo credit: Heiki Laan / Taltech
New tech solution helps victims of terror attacks
The study showed that copper ions are primarily bound to only two proteins in the blood – ceruloplasmin and serum albumin. A small proportion of copper ions are also bound to histidine and other free amino acids in the blood.
The analysis of copper levels in blood facilitates diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Surveys show that most of the stars visible in the sky are expected to have planets orbiting them. Scientists are trying to find out whether any of them may have life on them.
A new chapter in the search for extraterrestrial life
The great tit finds most of the food necessary for the nestlings from the canopies of deciduous trees.
Looking at the forest through the eyes of birds
Studying the prevalence of the coronavirus in Estonia will give the politicians and decision-makers evidence-based data to form the strategy for the gradual exit from the emergency situation.
Estonia is contributing €8.1 million to COVID-19-related research and development
Rando Tuvikene, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Tallinn University
Use of crustaceans in healing wounds – future of medicine?

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