The latest Eurobarometer survey on the scientific literacy of Hungarians has some interesting lessons: according to the results reviewed by Qubit, Hungary, along with Romania and Italy, has the highest proportion of people (31%) who think that the earliest humans lived on Earth at the same time as dinosaurs. But there are other tidbits, the […]
Hungarian astronomer Miksa Hell (a.k.a. Maximilian Hell) was born as Rudolf Maximilian Höll on May 15, 1720 in the northern Hungarian town of Selmecbánya (present-day Slovakia). He became an internationally known scientist. The crater Hell on the Moon is named after him. In 1770, Miksa Hell took part in the Hungarian expedition to Norway to […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) has opened a business incubation center in Budapest. It is to fund startups using space technology solutions in products and services developed for everyday life.
Education is held by the General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences among the most important tasks of the Hungarian state - the Academy's decision-making body declared in its resolution with a majority of over 80%.
The production and sharing of quantum bits and the creation a quantum information network will be the goal for the next four years by the HunQuTech consortium of researchers, research institutes and industrial companies.
Hungarian researchers work under extreme weather conditions on Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano on Earth, in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile from next year on, the expedition will have its own research center on the spot to analyze samples.
The European Union's ELI-ALPS laser research center was inaugurated in Szeged, SE Hungary. The center's budget was HUF 70 billion (EUR 22.6 million), from which 85% was provided by the European Union’s Regional Development Fund.
The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, László Lovász, has been re-elected for another three-year term at the 188th assembly of the organization. The Academy expressed support for the Central European University.
This year’s Ignaz Lieben Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has been given to Hungarian physicist Illés Farkas, a researcher from the Statistical and Biological Physics Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
29 year old Hungarian physicist Zoltán Szabó has won GE’s unique global contest, “GEeks go for gold”, de-coding the conversations of some of the smartest GE machines. It took him two weeks to crack the code and win the USD 10,000 prize.
An extraordinary phenomenon has been discovered in Debrecen: the fifth fundamental force in nature. Laboratories worldwide will attempt to reproduce the results achieved in the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Atomki).
The EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu, paid a visit the EU-funded super laser center in Szeged, southern Hungary, on Friday. The EU’s large-scale project will create world-class research environment in central Europe.
People from over a hundred countries attend the four-day 7th World Science Forum (WSF) in Budapest that opened this Wednesday. Topics include combatting climate change and natural disasters, recent epidemics and global health hazards they pose.
The world of science focuses on the Hungarian capital in the early days of next month during the 7th World Science Forum. Throughout November, there is also a series of events celebrating Hungarian science as it has been a tradition since 1997.
September 16 marks the birthday of Hungarian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi, whose discovery was among the foundations of modern nutrition. Read on to find out more on this brilliant mind.
