State-of-the-art еquipment explores polymeric nutraceutical and cosmetic formulations

 New laboratories with modern equipment for innovative polymer materials were opened at the Institute of Polymers of BAS. The equipment is part of the Centre of Competence "Sustainable Utilization of Bioresources and Waste of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Innovative Bioactive Products" at the Department of Polymeric Nutraceutical and Cosmetic Formulations. The aim of the project is to produce innovative products of plant origin with high added value, used as food supplements and cosmetics. In the official opening ceremony of the new scientific research facility at the Institute of Polymers took part the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Prof. Neli Koseva, the Vice-President of BAS Prof. Evdokia Pasheva, representatives of the Institute of Polymers and partner organizations of the project. Scientific experiments and research [...]

2021-07-19T10:18:32+03:00Thursday, 15 July 2021|Categories: Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies, Selected|
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Four new books on Bulgarian-Ukrainian cultural relations

Four books on Bulgarian-Ukrainian cultural relations were presented at BAS by the Institute of Literature and the Embassy of Ukraine in Bulgaria. The comparative collection “Bulgaria and Ukraine – Culture at the Turning Points (XIX-XIX)”, the anthologies “Bulgarian Poetic Avant-Garde”, “Ukrainian Poetic Avant-Garde” and the phototype edition “The Ukrainian-Bulgarian Review: Cultural Diplomacy of the Embassy of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Bulgaria” (1919-1920) show artistic facts, developments and documents unknown to the academic and cultural audience. […]

2021-06-21T10:05:21+03:00Friday, 18 June 2021|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity, Selected|
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Ceremonial assembly on the occasion of 24 May

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences celebrated 24 May - the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, education and culture and of the Slavonic Literature with a ceremonial assembly. The President of the Academy Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, delivered a speech on the occasion. "Our mission is to be convinced and to convince that every talented creative act, every scientific discovery marks a significant, respectable trace not only in the national memory," said Prof. Revalski. Prof. Iliya Iliev from the Institute for Historical Studies of BAS delivered a festive speech on the topic “The work of Cyril and Methodius and medieval Bulgaria”.   "Bulgaria became a leading cultural center of medieval Europe. Armed with this spiritual shield, [...]

2021-05-31T11:11:28+03:00Friday, 21 May 2021|Categories: General news, Selected|
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200 years since the birth of Georgi Stoykov Rakovski

  The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great revolutionary Georgi Stoykov Rakovski with a poster exhibition which is arranged in the central foyer of BAS. The exposition traces the diverse performances of the great revolutionary, diplomat, publicist, poet, scientist through books and periodicals by and about Rakovski which are stored in the rich funds of the Central Library of BAS. Old printed editions from the Revival collection (original first editions of Rakovski's own books), books from the personal libraries of Felix Kanitz (with autograph by Rakovski himself), Nikola Nachov and others were used. In the year dedicated to the life and work of the great Bulgarian, on Rakovski's Day – 14 April, when Bulgaria celebrates 200 years [...]

2021-04-15T10:46:54+03:00Tuesday, 13 April 2021|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity, General news, Selected|
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Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals

  An international research team has sequenced the genomes of the oldest securely dated modern humans in Europe who lived around 45,000 years ago in Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. By comparing their genomes to the genomes of people who lived later in Europe and in Asia the researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, show that this early human group in Europe contributed genes to later people, particularly present-day East Asians. The researchers also identified large stretches of Neandertal DNA in the genomes of the Bacho Kiro Cave people, showing that they had Neandertal ancestors about 5-7 generations back in their family histories. This suggests that mixture with Neandertals was the rule rather than the exception when the first modern [...]

2021-04-09T15:10:35+03:00Friday, 9 April 2021|Categories: Cultural-historical Heritage and National Identity, Selected|
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