The Estonian Academy of Sciences announces a competition for selecting Researcher-Professor in Future Energetics.
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The R&D centre led by the University of Tartu will combine synthetic biology with digital technologies to facilitate big data-driven design of cells for the bio-industry, boosting both research and the development of new businesses based on industrial biotechnology. The centre that is developed in cooperation with Tallinn University of Technology and the Technical University of Denmark received €15 million from the European Commission, with another €15 million invested by the Estonian state.
The study scientists has published a list that includes the top 2% of scientists in various scientific fields. The current version is an update of the publicly available database of more than 100,000 top scientists that provides standardised information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to articles in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.
On January 25, 2023, as part of the project "Stairway to Excellence: Strengthening an Effective and Reliable Higher Education System in Ukraine", a delegation from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and higher education institutions led by State Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science Serhiy Zakharin visited Tallinn University of Technology, which is one of the most famous and largest universities in Estonia.
BERLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Germany is well positioned in education levels when compared with its European peers, but a study conducted by the IW economic institute showed that this privileged position could be at risk.
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AI helps find missed meteorites
Antarctica is famously good at preserving meteorites, burying the rocks in snow and ice until they resurface. They often become concentrated in regions of compacted “blue” ice that make up about 1% of the Antarctic surface. But finding the meteorites within those tracts has been an ad hoc affair. Now, researchers have a new tool for the hunt: an artificial intelligence algorithm that predicts their location. A team of Belgian researchers announced last week that it employed the machine-learning software to help discover five meteorites, including a massive, 7-kilogram specimen, in a blue ice region of East Antarctica not previously known to harbor them. The software, described in a study published last year in Science Advances, uses satellite data about known, meteorite-producing regions, such as slope, blue ice content, and temperature, and is trained to predict locations that have similar characteristics. Scientists search an ice field in Antarctica for meteorites.
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In 2022, Earth set new records for warming
Temperatures continued to rise at an alarming pace in 2022, which became the fifth- or sixth-hottest year in modern history, U.S. and European science agencies reported last week. Earth’s average recorded surface temperatures were some 1.2°C warmer than preindustrial times. Nearly 30 countries set individual all-time heat records, and some 850 million people experienced the warmest temperatures of their lives last year. As in 2021, the warming was suppressed by a persistent, multiyear La Niña cooling pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean, the agencies said. But La Niña is expected to wane this year, setting the stage for even higher temperatures. Meanwhile, the world’s oceans, which capture 90% of the excess heat from global warming and are less prone to short-term temperature fluctuations, again had their hottest year on record in 2022—as they have nearly every year since the 1990s.
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Utah’s Great Salt Lake may dry up within 5 years
North America’s largest saline lake could be gone by 2028 if water inflows are not restored, researchers warned last week. The Great Salt Lake in Utah has lost nearly three-quarters of its water and 60% of its surface area since 1950, a report from 32 scientists at multiple institutions concludes, and a recent drought has accelerated the losses.