Ukrainian Science Club

Science Аrticles

26.07.2010 Late for the Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe
The virus spared the region until the mid-1990s; treatment is becoming widely available, but prevention programs raise political antagonism. According to the most authoritative estimates of HIV's prevalence, in 1991 Eastern Europe and Central Asia we...

Shows: 38

20.07.2010 Ocean Acidification Unprecedented, Unsettling
Humans are caught up in a grand planetary experiment of lowering the ocean's pH, with a potentially devastating toll on marine life. The physics and chemistry of adding an acid to the ocean are well understood, - gigatons of acid are lowering the pH ...

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News

30.07.2010 Thinnest metallic lines in the world speeds up miniaturisation of electronic devices

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29.07.2010 Sequence DNA using graphene nanopores

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27.07.2010 The Core of Neptune, Here on Earth

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27.07.2010 Pristine Impact Crater Discovered in Egypt Desert

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27.07.2010 Vienna 2010 closes with a renewed commitment for securing universal access to HIV prevention, care, treatment and support

Shows: 32

23.07.2010 The Promise Of A Pain Free Delivery For The Needle-Phobic

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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...

Shows: 47

Opinion

05.05.2010 After Ukraine relinquishes uranium, nuclear scientists in Kharkov want to build a fundamentally new reactor
After Ukraine's agreement to relinquish highly enriched uranium made at the Summit on Nuclear Safety, Ukrainian scientists expect to reach a whole new level of research. Specifically, the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, is hoping to use ...

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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: 170

Education

03.06.2010 A meeting of private educational institution representatives has been held for the first time in Ukraine

On May 28^th, 2010 representatives of privately owned Ukrainian educational institutions met with the Education and Science Minister Dmitry Tabachnik. The meeting included around 300 participants. It was noted that private educational institutions have become a prominent component of the educational environment in Ukraine, have found their place in it and are making an important contribution, providing educational services and improving the educational level of Ukrainian citizens. However, it was also noted that there are still many problems that need to be solved.

Shows: 198

International Collaboration

28.07.2010 Support of participation within the ICT Event 2010, Brussels 27-29 September 2010

The ICT 2010 is a European biennial event, which aims to share visions of current and future research trends and explore key policy options in Information and Communication Technologies. The EECA cluster offers support for participation in the ICT 2010.Applications need to be submitted by July 31, 2010 (6pm, Kyiv time).

Author: Ivan Kulchytskyy
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