Researchers of Hungary's HUN-REN Wigner research center have been awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for developing a new method for crystal structure determination, the HUN-REN research network said on Monday. According to HUN-REN's website, the technique developed by Miklós Tegze, Gábor Bortel and Gyula Faigel at the Wigner […]
The University of Szeged (SZTE), in southeastern Hungary, has joined the collaborating centers of the World Health Organization, the university said on Wednesday. According to the university's statement, SZTE has been granted Public Health Innovative Collaboration Center status, which will further increase the university's international role in the area of public health innovation. The new […]
All four Hungarian competitors won medals at this year’s iGeo Geography Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, according to the University of Pécs (PTE), which prepared the Hungarian team. The announcement noted that 182 competitors from 48 countries tested their knowledge at the competition. From the Hungarian team, Máté Keresztesi-Kiss, a former student at the Fazekas Mihály […]
Hungary's Puli Space Technologies said on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based Mission Space to explore joint lunar surface missions. The joint lunar missions would use Puli Space's rover platform and Mission Space's lunar environmental monitoring instruments. The MoU follows Mission Space's recent selection by NASA to advance its lunar dust […]
Hungary's HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics will become part of a new Max Planck Center (MPC) for mathematical sciences, alongside Yale University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, the Alfréd Rényi Institute said on Wednesday. The Max Planck Center is one of the highest-level international collaborations within the Max Planck […]
Surgeons at the University of Szeged were the first in Europe, and the third in the world, to implant a new type of heart valve-containing vascular prosthesis, the university's communications office said in a statement on Thursday. The innovative procedure involved implanting a biologically derived heart valve in two young patients with congenital heart disease. […]
The Euclid space telescope has mapped over 60 million stars in the heart of the Milky Way, with Hungarian researchers playing a key role in the survey, the HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute said on Wednesday, MTI reports. The mission's data extends beyond cosmology, András Kovács, a researcher at HUN-REN's Konkoly Thege Miklós […]
The children's clinic of Semmelweis University in Budapest has launched a nationwide survey to gauge the quality of life of children between 4 and 18 years and their families in the country, the institution said on Wednesday. As MTI reports quoting the statement, researchers are hoping to gain a comprehensive view based on anonymous answers […]
The CERN Council, the supreme decision-making body of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, will hold its extraordinary session on Friday at the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in Budapest. The CERN Council, which represents researchers from 25 member states including Hungary, will decide on the review and renewal of the European […]
In January, mathematics takes center stage at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), where the Department of Mathematical Sciences welcomes visitors with public lectures, film screenings, and an exhibition showcasing the world-renowned achievements of Hungarian mathematicians, organizers told MTI. As part of a series of celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the […]
Dogs can pick up more from human speech than what was previously thought, with some capable of learning new words from their owners' conversations, according to a new study published in the journal Science with the contributions of Eötvös Lóránd University's (ELTE) ethologists. The study found that certain canines have the ability to learn new […]
From October 28 to 30, science is brought out of the labs and closer to the future as Hungary's largest science promotion event is reopened at the Millenáris event site. Over three days, the Science Expo brings the world of science closer to everyone who is curious about the future with interactive programs, spectacular experiments […]
Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences) awards Erasmus Medal to László Lovász, Hungarian research professor at the HUN-REN Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute and former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for his outstanding international scientific work. In a statement sent to MTI on Friday, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network emphasized that the Erasmus […]
A supercomputer specialized in artificial intelligence research was inaugurated this Tuesday at the University of Szeged (SZTE) in SE Hungary. As part of the investment, SZTE purchased 1.75 peta flop/s of computing capacity, but thanks to the design, it also has access to significant resources managed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Tibor Szpisják, HPE's managing […]
The University of Pécs (PTE) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) IT Solutions are creating a new IT and telecommunications center for the approximately one thousand students of the Faculty of Engineering, Informatics and Natural Sciences, the higher education institution told MTI on Tuesday. In their statement, they wrote that the so-called DT Excellence Center will offer […]
