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Category Archives: Natural and exact sciences
Latvian Students Find Their Way to Tartu
Read why so many Latvians find their way to Tartu, what their role in the Estonian student satellite project is, and what they think about life, studies, and work in Tartu. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged business, enrepreneurship, Estcube, ESTCube-1, Latvian, Latvians, Master''s, PhD, space, student project, student satellite
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Solving the Problem of Consciousness
You are a very complicated machine, yet you don’t feel like that – it feels like something to be you. Neuroscientist Jaan Aru looks into how the neural machinery of the brain produces conscious experience. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged binocular rivalry, brain, brain research, cognitive psychology, consciousness, neural activity, neurobiological mechanism, neuroscience, perception
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How Greenfinches Help Our Understanding of the Immune System
Tuul Sepp. a young and talented researcher of animal ecology, knows that parasites rule this world. She looks into our defence system with the help of Estonian greenfinches – find out how. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged animal ecology, birds, ecoimmunology, greenfinches, hosts, immune defence, immune system, immunology, multidisciplinary, parasites
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4 New Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Find out the 4 new recipes on how to become a top researcher, shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged PhD, recipe, research, researcher, scientist, success, top scientist
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7 Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Read the 7 recipes on how to become a top researcher, kindly shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged career, publishing, recipes, research, researcher, scientist, tips
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Living on the Edge: Landlocked Seals in a Changing Climate
Even when there’s enough food, continuously warmer winters may make the ringed seal extinct. Such is the gloomy conclusion made by Mart Jüssi, a seal biologist at the University of Tartu, in his freshly defended doctoral thesis. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, Caspian seal, climate change, ecology, ice, land-locked grey seal, PhD, PhD thesis, ringed seal, seal
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What Do Women Appreciate in Men?
Men’s slender body is even more enticing to women than an alpha-male face, according to a study published in the Royal Society B journal and co-authored by Indrikis Krams, a visiting professor at the University of Tartu. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged attractiveness, body weight, immune system, macho, masculine, men, sex hormone, testosterone, women
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