This years Athens Science Festival celebrates change throughout human history from evolution to the adaptation of new technologies at Technopolis (100 Pireos).
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Artificial intelligence, the proposed European drug legislation and the tackling of antimicrobial resistance were among the topics discussed.
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They are explorers of submarine faults, often at great depths, using sound waves as a guide in the darkness. They have been trying for decades to capture the geological “engravings” and underwater structures of Greece’s seabed so that seismologists can better “read” the future.
An international team of scientists has discovered that a 726 AD eruption of the Santorini volcano was a lot bigger than initially estimated, pointing to an “elevated hazard potential.”
nature breaks rules all the time, and the latest animals to confound the yolk vs. milk binary are caecilians, the egg-laying, legless amphibians that look like worms.
It took six decades, countless field surveys in the Greek countryside and thousands of man-hours in microbiological laboratories and on drawing boards to complete the first geological map of Greece.
Having bright, beautiful teeth depends on more than just brushing twice a day.
In 2000, the European Commission decided to create the European Research Area in order to promote closer cooperation between EU countries, facilitate the mobility of researchers, and enhance the innovation and competitiveness of research institutions.
The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is playing an influential role in the development of the Multidisciplinary Expert System for the Assessment & Management of Complex Brain Disorders (MES-CoBraD) for faster and more accurate diagnosis of complex brain diseases.
A group of climbers, research geologists and topography specialists have recalculated the altitude of Mt Olympus, Greece’s highest mountain, with modern methods, a century after the Swiss surveyor and alpinist Marcel Kurz in 1921.
Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects 2.9 million people, presents a biological puzzle.
A sculptural fragment from the south side of the Parthenon depicting the Centauromachy, the mythical battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs, currently housed at the National Museum of Denmark, is partly coated by a thin brown film that baffles scientists to this day.
The sight of a humpback whale in the Mediterranean is rare. Just 45 have been spotted, photographed and recorded over the past decades.
“Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions are political, not technical problems,” highlighted W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at MIT Gregory Stephanopoulos in his speech on the prospects of metabolic engineering at the EmTech Europe Conference on Wednesday.
Growing crops without soil may sound like a contradiction, but for the research team Eplants (Electronic Plants) at Linkoping University, Sweden, led by Cypriot Associate Professor Eleni Stavrinidou, it is not only possible, but also groundbreaking.
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