Author : Esther T. Hedman

The heavy door opens, and a rush of cool air greets us.  “This is my favourite place in our offices during summer,” says Mika Hovilainen with a grin. He is CEO of Aker Arctic, an icebreaker design company.  Small red boats are...

If you have ever walked barefoot along a beach at night, you will have noticed that the sand stays warm even after the sun goes down. A Finnish company is using the thermal properties of...

An international research team has successfully created a genetic map of oats – the pangenome and pantranscriptome, which show when and where oat genes are active in different parts of the plant. This breakthrough helps...

Metal shelving runs the length of the narrow room, stacked with grey boxes that hold decades of Nokia’s design experiments. The air is cool, the space tight and the hum of the climate system is...

Could consumption and manufacturing be tempered simply by avoiding overproduction in the first place? And what if retailers had precise, real-world data about which products would truly resonate with shoppers, allowing them to produce just...