Latest news from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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 [...]
BAS and BNA are expanding their cooperation
An agreement for joint activity aimed at popularizing scientific research was signed today by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, and the Director-General of the Bulgarian [...]
12 April – 60 years since the first manned space flight
April 12 marks the International Day of Cosmonautics, and this year the 60th anniversary of the first manned space flight - the orbital flight of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The Space Research and Technology Institute at [...]
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 [...]
An interstellar comet is probably the most pristine object ever discovered
Image of comet 2I / Borisov obtained with the VLT telescope. Image credit: ESO New observations made with the participation of a scientist from BAS using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the [...]
International Scientific Conference “The Balkans in International Relations: From Late Antiquity to the Age of Globalization”
International online scientific conference “X Drinov Readings” on “The Balkans in International Relations: From Late Antiquity to the Age of Globalization” will be held on 30 and 31 March 2021. The organizer of this forum [...]
World Water Day and World Meteorological Day
“The ocean, our climate and weather” is the theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day. On this day, we celebrate the important role of science in the study of weather, climatic fluctuations and change. Research, [...]
“Science for Business” presented the most interesting developments of BAS, ready to become a successful business
For the first time a development of the Bulgarian vaccine against COVID-19, PCR kits, a device for decontamination of the air from viruses and bacteria, bioceramics by space technology and many others were presented. [...]
The first “Fish Primer” is shown by the Central Library of BAS
21 March marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr. Petar Beron Three of the Revival editions of the "Fish Primer" by Dr. Petar Beron are stored in the Central Library of BAS (CL-BAS). [...]
125 years since the birth of the composer Academician Petko Staynov
A hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Acad. Petko Staynov will be celebrated in 2021. An initiative committee chaired by Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, has adopted a programme to celebrate [...]
National Astronomical Observatory – Rozhen turns 40 years old
Forty years since the official opening of the National Astronomical Observatory – Rozhen (NAO Rozhen) will be celebrated on 13 March 2021. In its first years, NAO Rozhen is a scientific astronomical complex of three [...]
The Ministry of Education and Science supports the establishment of a National Competence Center at EuroHPC JU
The EuroCC project (National competence centers in the framework of EuroHPC) aims to create a network of national competence centers in the three related areas of HPC (high performance computing), HPDA (big data analysis) and [...]
National holiday of Bulgaria 3 March
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences pays tribute to the memory of all soldiers who died for the freedom of Bulgaria. On the occasion of the National Holiday 3 March and 143 years since the Liberation [...]
“Science for Business” in online format
The innovative platform will show the most interesting developments of BAS, ready to become a successful business One of the most anticipated business events – “Science for Business”, organized by the Bulgarian Small and Medium [...]
PhD student at BAS is the winner of a special award for significant contribution to the development of scientific research in Bulgaria
PhD student Eva Filipova from the Forest Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the winner of the special award for significant contribution to the development of research in Bulgaria at the National [...]
Award for outstanding young scientist in the field of polymers
The “Prof. Ivan Shopov” award of the Union of Chemists in Bulgaria “Outstanding young scientist in the field of polymers” for 2021 was given to Assistant Professor Dr. Nikoleta Stoyanova from the Institute of Polymers [...]
The Bulgarian tradition of decorating with martenitsa
The traditions associated with 1 March mark the transition between winter and spring and date back to the pre-Christian era. The most famous and widespread of them is the decoration with martenitsas of twisted white [...]
2020 – successful and important for Bulgarian archaeology
The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) opened the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2020” on 11 February 2021. The opening was attended by the [...]
The Ambassador of France visited the Institute of Microbiology of BAS
The Ambassador of the Republic of France to Bulgaria, H.E. Florence Robin, visited the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology (IMicB) together with Veneta Salyahetdinova, a tenth-grader from Blagoevgrad, winner of the “Ambassador for a Day” [...]
The Scientific Secretaries of BAS were elected by the General Assembly
The General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences elected eight scientific secretaries of the Academy. The election is in connection with the expiration of the term of office of the scientific secretaries of BAS. [...]
The exhibition “Bulgarian Archaeology 2020” presents over 350 exhibits from Prehistory to the Middle Ages
The National Archaeological Institute with a Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) is going to present the fourteenth national archaeological exhibition "Bulgarian Archaeology 2020" from 12 February to 2 May 2021. [...]
The training of specialists in the nuclear field is a priority in the cooperation between INRNE and NEA
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is home to the largest center for research and education in the nuclear field in Bulgaria. This is the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), said Prof. Dimitar [...]
Two of the institutes of BAS start digitizing their scientific collections in a joint project
The implementation of the first stage of the project "Distributed system of scientific collections - Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG)" started with an online meeting of the team. Тhe project will be implemented by the Institute of Biodiversity [...]
Project “Upgrading distributed scientific infrastructure “Bulgarian Network for Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER-BG)”
Scientists from three institutes of BAS and the University of Forestry have started work on the project "Upgrading Distributed Scientific Infrastructure "Bulgarian Network for Long-Term Ecosystem Research” (LTER-BG). The aim is to summarize the scientific [...]