Melinda Mills

Finding out how digital technology affects is difficult, because it requires accessing, processing, and analyzing complex data that often belong to big tech platform and raise privacy concerns. Traditional social science research models fall short because they rely on individual scholars to come up with ad hoc solutions. Instead, the…

Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) connects scientific research and video games as a seamless gaming experience. Players are invited to solve crowd-sourced research tasks integrated in video games, thus contributing to real-world scientific research. Projects include a mini-game where participants helped researchers understand the coronavirus by classifying cell populations. Another…

Much of the world’s energy demands continue to depend on fossil fuels. However, mounting environmental concerns and decarbonisation efforts have propelled the development of sustainable processes to produce chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable biological resources. Biotechnology has been making strides and could soon help address a range of global…

As a result of the strong economic growth in many African countries, the continent has a growing demand for young professionals, particularly in mathematics, IT and engineering, in order to ensure rapid and stable economic, social and political development. Yet, only six per cent of post-secondary aged Africans are enrolled…

Two states of matter “solid” and “fluid”, which are mutually exclusive in the classical world, can exist simultaneously in the quantum world. The supersolid was created by dysprosium atoms that behave like tiny magnets and that were cooled down to near absolute zero (-273° Celsius). To generate a supersolid, the…

Lorena Neira Ramírez developed a low-cost material to maximize the area coralline algae can grow upon. Facilitating a settlement substrate helps marine ecosystems capture carbon faster and more efficiently.

Quantification of subjective perceptions, such as smell and taste, and correlating it with medical conditions will add an additional dimension into diease diagnosis, particularly those that relates to respiratory symptoms. Leveraging on COVID-19 as an initial case study for the development of standardized test kits for smell and taste. Further…

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe. In this regard it is almost the exact opposite of fossil fuels, which are incredibly rare and hard to extract. So wouldn’t it be great if we could swap fossil fuels for renewable sources such as hydrogen? This Falling Walls…

Ayushi Chauhan aims to create a new generation of portable devices for the rapid detection of point mutations responsible for DR-TB. The assay is accessible, scalable, and suitable for high burden TB countries.

Eeva Luhtakallio is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in political and visual sociology, social theory, and methodology. Her research focuses on democracy and citizenship as mundane practices by studying activism, young people’s political engagements, and political marginalization. Luhtakallio leads the Centre for Sociology of Democracy…