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The 2018 Sofia Science Festival, from May 10 to 13, features 20 events in English – out of a record-setting 100 in total. In addition to several events in English […]
Nasa astronaut Richard “Rick” Linnehan will visit Bulgaria from May 9 to 14 2018, the US embassy said. Linnehan will spend time in Sofia and Plovd ...
So, how could changing the wording of a letter to farmers reduce pollution in Ireland? If you are waiting for the punchline, there isn’t one, bu ...
Ask a child to draw a picture of a scientist, and it is likely you will be presented with a figure in a white coat, bald, bespectacled and quite proba ...
These are some of the highlights of the programme of the 2018 Sofia Science Festival, being held at Sofia Tech Park from May 10 to 13. The events listed below […]
Normally, in writing about the participants in Sofia Science Festival, each story is about a presenter who is coming. This is a story about one who is not. But he […]
It is a troubling world, one within which climate change deniers and those who are anti-science occupy high office – looking at you, Trump – and one in which pseudo-science […]
Let’s have a show of hands. Who’s heard of Cecil the Lion? And if you could, would you ban trophy hunting in Africa? Oxford graduate zoologist Dr Joanna Bagniewska, a […]
Eñaut Izagirre is a ski-mountaineering specialist with ski and climbing experience in the Pyrenees, Norway and the Alps, and recently in Patagonia. In 2016, Izagirre, who is doing a master […]
Can we teach technological entrepreneurship? Professor Dan Shechtman’s answer: “Yes, we can – and we should”. Shechtman, an Israeli Nobel Prize winner in chemistry who has many other strings to […]
