Discover how Finnish lingonberry innovation can boost oral health
A University of Helsinki dentist has found that the tart lingonberry – the cranberry’s wild cousin, abundant in Finnish forests – can help keep your mouth healthy.
We visit two innovative Finnish businesses – a discount retailer and a Michelin Green Star restaurant – to see how food culture is shifting from consumption to conservation.
7 surprising things that Finnish companies are making out of wood
Clothes, car batteries, fish feed – you name it. Some of the world’s most creative and commercially promising wood-based innovations come from Finland, and many are made from industry by-products. Here are just a few.
Inventive Finnish company makes construction ideas float
Bluet, a young Finnish company with an imaginative approach, has become a global leader in the new industry of floating leisure structures: buildings, swimming pools, football fields, concert stages and more.
University of Helsinki research: Prehistoric people may have “heard” rock paintings talking
A number of prehistoric (5000–1500 BCE) rock paintings exist in Finland, mostly in the southeastern part of the country. Surprisingly, the acoustics of some sites may have made them important to the hunter-gatherers of the time.
