Ukrainian Science Club

Science Аrticles

03.09.2010 Genetics: Pet project
The hunt for genes causing psychiatric problems in humans has been "hard work with slim pickings", says Jonathan Flint, a geneticist at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. This is partly because human genomes are complex and the...

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26.08.2010 How Fast Can Microbes Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill?
These are boom times for oil-eating microbes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that has added some 600 million liters of hydrocarbons to those waters. New research shows that an array of new and uncla...

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News

03.09.2010 Which Ray?: Conflicting Data on High-Energy Cosmic Rays Leave Their Source--or Sources--Unresolved

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02.09.2010 A Few Drug-Resistant Bacteria May Keep the Whole Colony Alive

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31.08.2010 These Materials Can't Be Stretched Thin

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30.08.2010 Caterpillars Sign Their Own Death Warrants

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27.08.2010 Iceman May Have Been Buried in a Ceremony

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27.08.2010 Roots of world poverty misunderstood

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Hot Topics

26.07.2010 Hadron collider starts producing results
Researchers are hoping to find the illusive ‘God particle’ also known as the Higgs boson particle which many believe is responsible for creating planets and stars. With researchers from the United States ahead of the pack in the pursuit f...

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Opinion

03.08.2010 Joint Statement of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada on the Recent Developments Regarding Academic Freedom in Ukraine
Our organizations express their deep concern at recent attempts to curtail the autonomy of academic institutions and academic freedom in Ukraine. These developments threaten to abrogate the hard-won right to free speech on campus; to pit administra...

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Science Policy

17.06.2010 Yanukovich’s state-of-the-nation address: Techology export, support for leading universities, creation of a national electronic library

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych intends to ensure the country's revenues from the export of Ukrainian technologies, Ukrainian research and engineering developments and educational services are $1 billion a year. He also said that the government should substantially support from three to five leading Ukrainian universities and create a national electronic library.

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28.04.2010 Twenty-four years ago on April 26th, 1986 Unit 4 of the Chornobyl Atomic Power Plant in Ukraine melted down leading to a completely uncontrolled nuclear explosion
April 21, 2010. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on: Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, Countering Nuclear Terrorism: The NPT Review Conference and the Nuclear Security Summit.

Shows: 241

Education

11.08.2010 Europe reflects on a decade of higher education reforms

A maze of initiatives has rattled Europe’s universities and set them on their bumpy way toward transparency, compatibility, and mobility. The Bologna Process’s overarching goals are transparency and recognition of degrees from one institution by another, comparability and compatibility of courses and degrees among universities, and increased mobility.

Author: Toni Feder
Shows: 201

International Collaboration

31.08.2010 The quarterly e-Newsletter of JSO-ERA project

Joint Support Office (JSO) for Enhancing Ukraine’s Integration into the European Research Area (ERA). JSO-ERA NEWSLETTER, Advancing EU-Ukraine Cooperation in Research, ISSUE 2 April - June 2010.

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