Prof. Garo Mardirosian from the Space Research and Technologies Institute (SRTI) of BAS was awarded the "Inventor of the Year - 2023" prize of the Union of Inventors in Bulgaria. He received the prestigious award for 4 inventions in the field of protection from disasters and accidents, two of which were for critical infrastructure: the "Kinematic System for Early Warning of Earthquakes for Critical Infrastructure Facilities" and the " Early Warning about Floods along River Beds near Artificial Lakes Barrages ". The application of the first invention is in anti-seismic protection of critical infrastructure facilities - for example nuclear power plants, dam walls, etc., from the effects of destructive seismic waves. It is based on the difference in velocities between the longitudinal and transverse [...]

  Sen. Asst. Prof. Yanko Nikolov, PhD from IA with NAO is a lead researcher in an international team Research conducted with the 2-m telescope at NAO Rozhen with lead researcher Sen. Asst. Prof. Yanko Nikolov, PhD, from the Institute of Astronomy with National Astronomical Observatory, tracked the eruption of the symbiotic star RS Oph as a nova on August 8, 2021. Astronomers from Bulgaria, Argentina and the USA have participated in the study. The results have been accepted for publication in the prestigious scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and can be found with open access at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11288. The research will be presented by astronomer Yanko Nikolov to a wide audience at the Varna Science Festival on 29 October. Novae eruptions occur in binary star [...]