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The Finnish sauna is enjoying a surge in popularity abroad, with growing interest in the UK and the US driven by a desire for wellbeing and real-world connection.

“One of the main factors driving the s...

Imagine discovering new battery materials, designing catalysts for green energy, or synthesising novel drug molecules in a fraction of the time it currently takes. That’s the promise of quantum computing – and Finland is at the forefront of constructing it.

In Espoo, just west of Helsinki, teams at VTT Technical Research Centre and IQM Quantum Computers are developing ...

Water splashes across our faces as someone beside me screams with excitement. The raft hurtles towards a boulder, swerves away at the last second, and shoots down the rapids.

Earlier that morning, on the shore of the Kitka River near the village of Käylä, close to the Arctic Circle, wilderness guides Tuomas Törmänen and Joonas Koskinen brief the group on the adventure ...

Wednesday night at the legendary Helsinki restaurant Ilves is anything but quiet. The air buzzes with possibility. Strangers wander in, some chasing love, others simply avoiding a lonely evening.

Tatskatytöt – literally “tattoo girls” – is the name used by a duo of tattoo artists, Salla Ollakka and Lee Su Ling. What began as a project has grown into a movement...

A winding gravel road leads to the former harbour of the Strömfors ironworks in Loviisa, a town on the southern coast of Finland, about 85 kilometres (50 miles) east of Helsinki. A slope rises, dotted here and there with red-ochre cottages.<...