President Rumen Radev: IICT – BAS has created a system at a high world level

The Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS has created a high world-level system that has all the elements: scientific infrastructure, proven progressive ideas and methods of scientific research. This was said by the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev during his visit to the Institute on 10 of December. He pointed out that the most important capital is the people – highly prepared, motivated and committed to success. That is why Bulgaria, with what you have done, is positioned on the world innovation map, the President addressed the scientists. […]

2020-01-21T14:31:39+02:00Tuesday, 10 December 2019|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|

An innovative project of HSSI-BAS is being put into practice

A high school students’ project in robotics received a proposal for practical implementation during the sixth edition of HSSI-BAS session. Developments within six scientific divisions were presented by the participants in the forum of the High School Student Institute of BAS (HSSI-BAS), which was held on 28 and 29 November. […]

2019-12-08T18:29:11+02:00Friday, 29 November 2019|Categories: High School Student Institute, Selected|

The Ministry of Education and Science appreciates the work of the High School Student Institute of BAS

The sixth scientific session of the High School Student Institute of BAS (HSSI-BAS) was opened today by the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tanya Mihaylova and the Vice-President of BAS corr.-mem. Kostadin Ganev. The two-day forum is held in “Prof. Marin Drinov” hall and is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. […]

2019-12-08T18:29:54+02:00Thursday, 28 November 2019|Categories: High School Student Institute, Selected|

Scientist from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS with an award in the competition “For Women in Science”

Dr. Mariya Dzhumalieva-Stoeva is one of this year's winners of the national scholarship "For Women in Science" for Bulgaria. The prestigious award was presented to her by Vice President Iliana Iotova at an awards ceremony held in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Dr. Dzhumalieva-Stoeva's is a postdoctoral student at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS under the National Program "Young Scientists and Postdoctoral Students" funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as well as Chief Assistant Professor of Computer Science at “St. Cyril and St. Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo. Her research focuses on coding theory and the study and classification of certain types of codes that are directly applicable to the protection of information, both from tampering and unauthorized access. "If [...]

2019-11-27T03:28:56+02:00Wednesday, 20 November 2019|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|

Scientists study changes in human cells through the super resolution of Andor Dragonfly

Center for Advanced Microscopy for basic and applied research in biology, medicine and biotechnology was opened at the Institute of Molecular Biology of BAS (IMB-BAS). The Center is part of the Euro-BioImaging Consortium (http://www.eurobioimaging.eu/), in which 14 European countries participate. The confocal microscope system Andor Dragonfly which is among the most advanced combined microscopic observation systems for the study of living cells by super-resolution was presented at the opening. The event was attended by the Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev, the Deputy Minister of Education and Science Karina Angelieva, the President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, the Scientific Secretary of BAS of division “Biomedicine and Quality of Life” Prof. Nina Atanassova, scientists and journalists. Assoc. Prof. Stoyno Stoynov of [...]

2019-11-19T18:05:35+02:00Friday, 15 November 2019|Categories: Biomedicine and Quality of Life, Selected|

Remains of a new hominid from Germany (more than 11.5 million years old) change our views on the evolution of great apes and humans

Artists reconstruction by Velizar Simeonovski of male Danuvius guggenmosi The discovery of a 11.62 Million-year-old ape skeleton in Germany now fundamentally changes our views on the early evolution of the human family. These spectacular finds are announced by an international group of scientists from Germany, Canada, Bulgaria and the US in the journal NATURЕ (URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1731-0 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1731-0) The fossils of the newly described genus and species Danuvius guggenmosi (Genus name after the Celtic-roman river god Danuvius, associated with the Danube river) were discovered between 2015 and 2018 by Madelaine Böhme and her team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment and Tübingen University, in the active clay pit of Hammerschmiede near Pforzen in the Allgäu area of Bavaria. The paleontological excavations [...]

2019-11-12T13:44:03+02:00Thursday, 7 November 2019|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Selected|
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