First Ukrainian city stops using gas heating, switches to wood waste
In 2017, raion center Zhovkva became the first gas-free city in Ukraine. The European Union funded the project…
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Chornobyl Exclusion Zone to be Home to Safe Solar Power
April 26th will be the 31st anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. For that time, most of the…
Biogas plant opens in frontline Volnovakha this year
The first biogas plant in Eastern Ukraine is set to open this year in Volnovakha, a government-controlled half-way…
Kyiv opens innovative park to boost startups and technologies
The first innovative city, a space with infrastructure for work and living for representatives of innovative businesses, has…
Ukraine may be on the doorstep of an electro-cars revolution
Amid post-revolution transformations, ongoing fight against corruption and the de facto war in Donbas, there is still a…
Ukraine’s airplane giant Antonov tests first model without Russian components
A brand new Ukrainian-built Antonov plane, taking off for the first time. The iconic Antonov aircraft manufacturer tested…
How Antonov’s world record-breaking cargo plane defined Ukraine
Ukraine's iconic Antonov AN-225 Mriya is the biggest plane in the world. Built in 1988, it was designed…
Ukrainian mayor eager to open Europe’s first center for hemp therapy
Ukraine may soon open Europe's first center for hemp therapy. The industrial variety of Cannabis sativa, the drug-less brother of…
Canada’s first spaceport will launch Ukrainian rockets
Halifax-based Maritime Launch Services has confirmed its plans to build a $148-million rocket spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia.…
The Ukrainian “logical thinking machine” which became a prototype for modern display devices
In April 1914, during his “Cognition and Thinking” lecture, Oleksandr Shchukarev, the Professor of Chemistry at the Kharkiv…
Ukrainian scientists breed blue and pink potatoes
At first glance, it looks like a beet. But according to its breeders, the deep color is where…
Young Ukrainian mathematician awarded for solving centuries-old problem
Ukrainian scientist Maryna Viazovska has been awarded the Salem Prize 2016, a prestigious distinction in mathematics. Viazovska has solved…
Dnipro will not let Ukraine’s space glory be forgotten
The city of Dnipro is located on the banks of the Dnipro river, and seems to be an…
Ukrainian IT students place third at international competition in data analysis
The students, all enrolled in the Master’s Program in Data Science at the Ukrainian Catholic University, took third…
Top-10 space achievements of independent Ukraine
Ukraine can rightly be regarded as an space power, despite the fact that, since its independence from the…
Four Ukrainian projects included in top 100 of Google Science Fair 2016
Four young Ukrainian have reached the finals of Google Science Fair 2016 – the top 100 ideas that…
Reversing Ukraine’s brain drain: mission possible? #UAreforms
Contents Only underfunded? No, not only underfunded Why has Ukrainian science stagnated after the breakup of the USSR?…
Ukrainian invents window blinds supplying power to living quarters
Yevhen Erik has developed energy-saving solar blinds. A window equipped with this gadget can generate up to 100…
Europe’s first electronic computer was created in Ukraine
Not everyone knows that the first fully operational electronic computer in continental Europe was created in Ukraine over…
Ukrainian engineers create cyber-glove allowing users to feel virtual reality
An alpha-prototype of the product is already available. A Ukrainian team of inventors with the design firm GremTech…