Participation of Prof. Revalski, Full Member of BAS, and Prof. Koseva in the forum “Science and Technology in Society”

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski and the Scientific Secretary-General Prof. Neli Koseva participated in the 19th Annual Meeting of the "Science and Technology in Society", forum which was held from 2 to 4 October in Kyoto, Japan. The meeting was attended by nearly 1,000 global experts from over 80 countries, regions and international organizations. The main objective of the meeting was to hold discussions on the progress of science and technology for the benefit of humanity. During his visit to Kyoto, Prof. Revalski and Prof. Koseva met with the President of the scientific organization RIKEN Prof. Makoto Gonokami. They discussed the possibilities for cooperation between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Japanese scientific organization. The President of BAS and the Scientific Secretary-General [...]

2022-11-02T15:45:47+02:00Thursday, 6 October 2022|Categories: General Academic News, Selected|
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100 years since the birth of Acad. Roumen Tsanev

The Institute of Molecular Biology is celebrating 100 years since the birth of Acad. Roumen Tsanev. The director of the institute Prof. Iva Ugrinova opened the three-day forum, which will last until 7 October in “Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall of the Academy. Acad. Tsanev formulated the first hypothesis of epigenetic regulation based on the histone code - an idea that has developed into a mainstream of modern science. Histones are the proteins that package DNA in the nucleus of the cell, and their chemical modifications are associated with specific levels of packaging and therefore affect gene expression. Acad. Roumen Tsanev (1922 - 2007) is the founder of Bulgarian molecular biology and the founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology (1960). The main directions of research [...]

2022-11-02T15:38:14+02:00Wednesday, 5 October 2022|Categories: Biomedicine and Quality of Life, Selected|
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Award “John Atanasoff – Inspirer and Creator of Talents” for Sen. Asst. Prof. Emil Kelevedjiev from BAS

Photo: President of Republic of Bulgaria. Senior Asst. Prof. Emil Kelevedjiev from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS is the winner of the award "John Atanasoff - Inspirer and Creator of Talents". At an official ceremony, President Rumen Radev presented the awards in the 20th edition of the John Atanasoff Presidential Award initiative. The Head of State welcomed the winners in the five categories of the John Atanasoff Presidential Award for 2022 in the Coat of Arms Hall at Dondukov 2. In front of the guests at the ceremony, Rumen Radev highlighted the significant role of the presidential initiative, which had established itself over the years as an expression of appreciation of our society for the success of the Bulgarian Olympic [...]

2022-11-02T15:35:48+02:00Wednesday, 5 October 2022|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|
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Scientific Conference INFRAMAT 2022

Scientific Conference INFRAMAT 2022 under the title “Modern Scientific Equipment in support of Science, Technology and Culture” was held from 12 to 14 September in Plovdiv. INFRAMAT is a distributed infrastructure of centers for synthesis and characterization of new materials and their applications, as well as for the conservation, access and e-preservation of archaeological and ethnographic artefacts, part of the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. The conference showcased current research by INFRAMAT partners and other scientific organisations using the infrastructure and demonstrated some of the advanced instrumentational and methodological capabilities of the distributed infrastructure. The conference programme included 20 papers, 38 posters in a wide range of research areas and a discussion on the future development of [...]

2022-09-23T17:22:19+03:00Thursday, 15 September 2022|Categories: Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies, Selected|
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Scientists from the Institute of Astronomy with NAO take part in a publication in “Nature”

An artistic interpretation of the blazar phenomenon and the jet of high-energy particles it emits The study of BL Lac blazar is by an international team with Bulgarian participation An international team involving Bulgarian astronomers has detected cycles of oscillating brightness in a jet of high-energy particles emitted by the blazar BL Lac. The results of this research were published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world - "Nature", no. 7926, Volume 609, 8 September 2022. Observations from 37 different telescopes in 13 countries were used to realize this study. Our results were obtained with the 2-m RCC telescope and the 50/70 cm Schmidt telescope at the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, as well as with the 60-cm telescope at the [...]

2022-09-14T17:17:10+03:00Thursday, 8 September 2022|Categories: Astronomy, Space Research and Technologies, Selected|
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First report with evidence that pandas lived in our country millions of years ago

Prehistoric Panda In the article „A late Turolian giant panda from Bulgaria and the early evolution and dispersal of the panda lineage“ published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Prof. Nikolai Spassov from the National Museum of Natural History of BAS and his Chinese colleague Qigao Jiangzuo describe a new species of fossil giant panda (Agriarctos nikolovi) that inhabited Bulgaria about 6 million years ago, at the end of the Miocene. The description of the species is based on the finding of fossil teeth stored in the collection of NMNHS - BAS. The evolution of the panda is poorly known due to very limited fossil remains. It is assumed that the direct ancestor of today's panda is the fossil Chinese genus Ailuraerctos which lived 8-6 [...]

2022-08-12T10:21:01+03:00Friday, 5 August 2022|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Selected|
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