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Category Archives: Natural and exact sciences
“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”
I’m a Mobilitas-funded post-doc in Tartu University, working in the lab of Tanel Tenson in the Institute of Technology. I write a blog about my research, and I’ve been kindly invited to write a guest post for the UT blog. … Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged biology, evolution, post-doc
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How to Make Computations Whilst Preserving Privacy?
If a country’s supermarket chains would like to know who sells more milk or cheese, it would be virtually impossible without spying on competitors’ accounting data. This problem has a solution: Sharemind allows computations on input data to be made without compromising privacy. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged computation, confidential data, IT, privacy, Sharemind
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A Robot Salesman?
A small Tartu-based company has commissioned a team of robotics engineers at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Technology to build a prototype of a small, knee-high or slightly taller, advertising robot. It will be able to make sounds, move around, flash lights, offer candies or distribute flyers, and talk to people. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged advertising, marketing, robot, robotics, salesman
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Tartu Students on a Moon Mission
About 200 students from 19 universities across Europe are working hard to get a satellite into lunar orbit in 2014. After launch the University of Tartu students will be in charge of steering the satellite into lunar orbit and ensuring that it stays there. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Student life
Tagged ESMO, Estcube, Moon, satellite, student project
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From +34°C in India to -32°C in Estonia
This is a story of the first Indian student to have defended his PhD thesis in Molecular Biology at the University of Tartu. Gyaneshwer Chaubey arrived to Estonia on a cold and dark day in January 2006, his supervisor was waiting for him with two enormous jackets. Continue reading
Why Do Women Outlive Men?
Estonian women outlive men by 11 years – but why? Sociologists and demographers point to self-destructive behaviours in men, as well as their greater risk of contracting heart disease, but they overlook the underlying causes of these woes. Peeter Hõrak, Professor in Physiological Ecology of Animals at the University of Tartu, puts this phenomenon in the context of the theory of sexual selection. Continue reading
Study Proves The Genetic Continuity of Jews
The study, published recently in Nature, analyzes the relationship between different Jewish communities, their possible common origins, and genetic relationship with differing peoples in whose midst one or another Jewish community has lived, often more than a thousand years. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged genetics, history, jewish, jews, population
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