Scientists at the National Observatory of Athens have launched a petition seeking the public’s support in opposing a recent government decision to transfer oversight of the respected research institution to the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) awareness campaign gets under way on Saturday as part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 18-24) amid growing concern over the proliferation of strains of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi for which there are virtually no active antibiotics available.
At the top of Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, Lick Observatory looks out over the dense sprawl of the San Francisco Bay Area. On a clear day from the 4,200-foot summit, you can see San Francisco to the north, as well as the entrance to Yosemite Valley, 120 miles east, as the crow flies.
Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat.
Technological progress has affected our lives in unexpected ways, one of many being the consideration of new career paths.
Some things never change. Politicians may promise and brag, news media may report breathlessly on any inch of progress, and legions of people distinguished in their fields may devote money, time and their reputation to the cause, but Greece seems unable to invest seriously in research and innovation.
Three years after its marathon voyage across the Central Arctic Ocean frozen in the ice, the German scientific research ship Polarstern has once again reached the North Pole.
The city of Volos in central Greece is hosting the second International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics for Juniors on September 24-30, welcoming experts and youngsters from China and India to Romania, Ukraine and Sweden, among other countries.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was a surprising outsider when he took over as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. And yet he accomplished the mission that culminated in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Some areas of Greece received up to 800 millimeters of rain in recent days, more than is usually recorded in a whole year, according to a post by the European Copernicus system on the X platform on Saturday.
The next time you savor a delectable dish, take a photo, not to share on social media but to input in an application that immediately gives you with details about the meal’s caloric and nutritional composition.
Europe’s top space official has urged wavering politicians not to abandon European leadership in combating climate change, saying record heatwaves and vegetation fires provide “really alarming” evidence of the pace of global warming.
In this photo taken with long shutter speed, a Perseid meteor sparks, while entering the earth’s atmosphere as a man sleeps in Tripiti beach in Gavdos island, the southernmost point of Greece and Europe, early Sunday.
A cutting-edge technological device has been developed by a scientific team in the UK, called the “artificial pancreas,” to optimize the treatment of people with type 1 diabetes.
A major increase in solar power generation in southern Europe played a leading role in averting energy shortages during the heatwaves of recent weeks when temperatures broke records and drove unprecedented demand for air conditioning. Solar power is particularly suited to coping with summer heat as the sun’s radiation is strongest around the hottest part […]
It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born so helpless? In 1960, an American anthropologist laid out an influential explanation rooted in human evolution.
