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A record heat wave caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt 17 times faster than the historical average between May 15 and 21, 2025, warns the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA), in a new report cited by AFP. The extreme event also...

Sending humans to Mars is a great promise of the 21st century - politically supported by Donald Trump and technologically by Elon Musk - but also one of the most difficult missions imaginable. The costs, risks and unknowns are huge, even if the...

The Great Barrier Reef may survive rising sea levels, but not in the presence of climate stress and pollution, suggests a new study published by the University of Sydney. A look into the geological past offers worrying prospects for the future of...

A groundbreaking new study by British researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Imperial College London brings to the fore a fascinating hypothesis: dinosaur fossils could contribute to the understanding of cancer and the development of...

While astronomers continue to search for the mysterious "ninth planet”, a possible giant hidden in the extremities of the Solar System, another discovery has sparked the interest of the scientific community: 2017 OF201, a celestial...

The Technology Transfer Center of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova (CTT-UMFCv) has been accredited by the Ministry of Education and Research as a component entity of ReNITT - the National Network for Innovation and Technology...

A study by researchers at Griffith University and published in the journal Biological Conservation shows that more than 220 critically endangered species in Australia are at risk of extinction. The main causes are habitat fragmentation and...

Researchers have discovered that teeth could come from sensory organs from 500 million years ago, informs AFP. The sensitivity of human teeth to cold or pain - that discomfort familiar to anyone who has ever bitten into an ice cream - could have...

A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment warns that sea levels will continue to rise dangerously, testing humanity's resilience until the end of the century and beyond, even in the optimistic scenario in which...

The Ovidius University of Constanta (UOC) is hosting the 18th edition of the International Congress on Press History, on May 23-24, a landmark event for the field of Communication Sciences. The main organizers are the Faculty of Letters -...

The Ministry of Culture is launching a project of over 24 million euros to bring heritage into the digital age. The ePatrimoniu platform will centralize data on monuments, heritage objects and traditions, providing easy access for citizens,...

A team of researchers from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has unexpectedly succeeded in transforming lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reports the zdnet.fr website. Although it is not a commercially...

Europa ar putea traversa în acest an o vară excepţional de călduroasă, avertizează un studiu recent realizat de cercetătorii Institutului Max Planck pentru Meteorologie (MPI-M) din Germania, în colaborare cu Universitatea din Hamburg, transmite...

Europe could experience an exceptionally hot summer this year, warns a recent study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Germany, in collaboration with the University of Hamburg, reports DPA.

For the first time in two decades, the Antarctic ice sheet has seen a significant increase in ice mass, according to a recent study led by researchers at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. The study, published in the journal Science China...

The National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest announced during the European SpaceFEST Summit the launch of a national campaign to collect signatures for the start of an integrated space program. The objective: to train...

A new study by researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, suggests that the end of the Universe will occur much sooner than previous estimates indicated.

Australian researchers have identified a compound that can block the process of cell death, opening new prospects for treatments against Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. A group of researchers from the Walter & Eliza Hall Medical...

Daily conversations with friends, time spent in nature and activities that stimulate the mind can have a significant impact on mental health, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Curtin University in Australia, cited by Xinhua...

Researchers have identified six hoards of metal objects on the volcanic hill of Somlo in western Hungary in a remarkable archaeological discovery. The discovery was made in just one year using metal detectors and lidar technology, bringing to...

The summer of 2024 was the warmest recorded in Lapland in the last 2,000 years, according to data published by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The region, which includes northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, has recorded record temperatures,...

Administraţia Naţională Spaţială a Chinei (CNSA) a anunţat că şapte instituţii ştiinţifice din Franţa, Germania, Japonia, Pakistan, Marea Britanie şi Statele Unite vor primi acces la eşantioane de regolit lunar colectate în cadrul misiunii...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that seven scientific institutions from France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States will be given access to lunar regolith samples collected by the...

A new global episode of coral bleaching, spanning more than two years, is wreaking havoc in the world's oceans, affecting approximately 84% of coral reefs - an absolute record in the history of documentation of these phenomena, according to...

O echipă de cercetători din Statele Unite afirmă că a descoperit o nouă culoare, invizibilă în mod natural ochiului uman, pe care au denumit-o "olo", relatează BBC. Descoperirea a fost publicată în revista Science Advances şi ar putea...

A team of researchers from the United States claim to have discovered a new colour, naturally invisible to the human eye, which they have named "olo", reports the BBC. The discovery was published in the journal Science Advances and could...

Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study published in the journal Science and cited by AFP. This contamination could pose a direct risk to the health of up to 1.4...

Guarded by the peaks of the Carpathians, by the rapid mountain waters and by dense forests, with villages that still preserve the spirit of bygone times, Maramures remains one of the most fascinating destinations in Romania. It is not only a...

Guarded by the peaks of the Carpathians, by the rapid mountain waters and by dense forests, with villages that still preserve the spirit of bygone times, Maramures remains one of the most fascinating destinations in Romania. It is not only a...

Europe faced the most extensive floods in the last decade in 2024, with 30% of the continent's hydrographic network affected. According to a joint report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization...

A study in the UK reveals that extreme poverty can have as strong an impact on babies' brain development as premature birth. Even if babies are born at term, poor socio-economic conditions can negatively influence early brain development. The...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with experts in Finland, have developed an experimental chewing gum with high antiviral potential, capable of reducing the viral load in the oral cavity by more than 95%. The study,...

One of the most arid and inhospitable places on the planet was, in the past, a green paradise with lakes and rivers. Climate change has turned everything upside down in this area. This is the conclusion of a new study published in the prestigious...

Innovative cases have led the competition authority to rethink and adapt its intervention methods to new economic realities, which has required innovative solutions in the regulatory framework, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition...

O echipă de cercetători de la Universitatea din Beijing a anunţat o descoperire revoluţionară în domeniul semiconductorilor: un nou tip de tranzistor care nu utilizează siliciu, având potenţialul de a creşte semnificativ performanţele...

A team of researchers from Peking University has announced a revolutionary discovery in the field of semiconductors: a new type of transistor that does not use silicon, with the potential to significantly increase processor performance and reduce...

A pig liver has been transplanted into a human patient for the first time, Chinese researchers from Xi'an University announced. This medical achievement represents a revolutionary experiment in the field of xenotransplantation, but it does...

A recent study presented at the American Chemical Society shows that chewing gum can release hundreds of microplastic particles into the mouth. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) analyzed the chemical composition of a...

The fourth edition of PoliChemistryFEST, an event dedicated to innovations and new trends in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, pharmaceutical industry and nanosciences, will take place on Friday and...

A revolutionary weather forecasting system, based on artificial intelligence, could replace traditional models that require supercomputers. The new system, called Aardvark Weather, was developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and...