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Tucson researcher receives major planetary science award
The Arizona Daily Star
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A local planetary scientist has received a prestigious national award named in honor of a giant in the field who also called the Old Pueblo home. Faith Vilas, a senior scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is this year’s...
Senior CCP Official Threatens Falun Gong Practitioners in Finland
The Epoch Times
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August 18, 2025
Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying threatened a group of Falun Gong practitioners in Finland as they collected signatures to oppose ongoing human rights abuses in China, heightening concerns from the persecuted spiritual group that its safety...
Stora Enso’s billion-euro investment in renewable packaging – Europe’s most modern consumer board production line inaugurated in Finland
Canadian Packaging
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August 18, 2025
The largest and most modern consumer packaging board production line in Europe was inaugurated on 18 August in Oulu, Finland. The new line was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Finland Petteri Orpo, chair of Stora Enso’s board of directors Kari...
"Deadly Nordic Heatwave Supercharged By Climate Crisis, Scientists Say"
The Environmental Magazine
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August 18, 2025
"Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms" "The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from climate change”,...
Senior CCP Official Threatens Falun Gong Practitioners in Finland
The Epoch Times
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August 18, 2025
Former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying threatened a group of Falun Gong practitioners in Finland as they collected signatures to oppose ongoing human rights abuses in China, heightening concern from the persecuted spiritual group that its members...
Biofuels Market is Expected to Reach USD 197.72 Billion by 2032 | SkyQuest Technology Consulting
AZoCleantech
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August 18, 2025
SkyQuest Technology Consulting published a report, titled, Biofuels Market - Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2025-2032", valued at USD 117.69 Billion in 2024. With a projected CAGR of 6.7% from 2025 to 2032, the market is...
KNL to deliver CNHF radios for Finland and Sweden
Army Technology
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August 18, 2025
KNL has secured a joint procurement order for the supply of Cognitive Networked HF (CNHF) Manpack radios to the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). The order is valued at approximately €15m ($17m)...
Report: Finland’s economic growth built on just two sectors
Helsinki Times
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August 18, 2025
Finland’s economic growth over the past ten years has depended almost entirely on two industries: digital services and the health and social care sector, according to a new report by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (Etla). The...
Future of Media Technology Conference 2025: Full line-up
Press Gazette
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August 18, 2025
Press Gazette’s fourth Future of Media Technology Conference and Awards return on 11 September to the Hilton Bankside hotel in London. The event features a packed programme of discussions, publisher success stories from around the world and...
Helsinki spotlight for Beijing school's AI project
China Daily Global
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Students from Hujialou Central Primary School present a research project during the fifth PDC International Education Conference at the University of Helsinki in Finland on Friday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] An artificial intelligence...
More than 56k potential candidates for each HR role – research
Personnel Today
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August 18, 2025
There could be as many as 56,432 potential candidates for every open HR manager position across the UK, according to research by global employment organisation Remote. Remote surveyed 4,126 business or HR leaders, at director level and above, with...
How Rising Temperatures Are Changing Moth Communities Across Finland
Asianet Newsable
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August 18, 2025
Scientists have found alarming changes in northern and southern Finland. Climate change is affecting moth communities across the country. Learn how this impacts ecosystems, and what can be done about it. Arctic Amplification The Arctic is warming...
90% Of Games Developers Already Using AI In Workflows, According To New Google Cloud Research
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Study shows 97% of developers believe gen AI is transforming the industry, with a focus on creating more dynamic worlds, intelligent nonplayer characters (NPCs), and more efficient workflows COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 18, 2025...
5 reasons to love Finnish porcini mushrooms
This is Finland
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August 17, 2025
1. They are delicious Finnish porcini mushrooms are loved all over the world. They are amazing in pasta, soup or on their own sliced thinly with some thyme, salt, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Dried porcini mushrooms keep for years and have an...
Scientists stunned by record-breaking, watermelon-shaped nucleus
ScienceDaily
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August 17, 2025
For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The previous similar breakthrough was achieved in 1996. The radioactive decay of atomic nuclei has been one of the keystones of...
Kela subsidies for private doctors cost more, achieve little
Helsinki Times
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August 18, 2025
A major increase in public subsidies for private doctor visits in Finland has led to minimal impact on service use, while significantly raising public expenditure, according to new data from Kela. At the start of 2024, the government raised the...
DayOne to build EUR 1.2 billion hyperscale data centre in Finland
iTWire
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August 17, 2025
Singapore-based global data centre developer DayOne has announced a EUR 1.2 billion investment in a state-of-the-art hyperscale data centre campus in Lahti, Finland. The Lahti site spans 98,901 square meters and the data centre project has a total...
How 9 minutes of daily HIIT may improve kids’ brain function and learning, according to research
Tom's Guide
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August 17, 2025
Kids’ attention spans aren’t exactly getting any longer. Some can’t even make it to the end of a 10-second TikTok without swiping away. To be honest, I’m also guilty of this sometimes. But if you can hold their focus for nine whole minutes of...
What Is UBI And Why Tech Billionaires Think It Is The Answer To AI Job Losses
Times Now
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August 17, 2025
Many big tech leaders believe UBI is the answer to the massive disruption AI will bring. Artificial Intelligence or AI is changing the way we work. While it is helping users in many ways, it is also raising big concerns about the future of jobs....
Finnish Ambassador finish his tenure in Vietnam
ScandAsia
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August 16, 2025
ShareSharePin ItShare State President Luong Cuong holds a reception for Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam Keijo Norvanto, August 15, 2025. (Photo: VNA) Finnish Ambassador to Vietnam Keijo Norvanto has completed his tenure in Hanoi, marking the...