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ukrainian scientists race document soil fungi amid ongoing war kateryna lavrinenko collects sample ukraine’s buzkyi gard national park september 2023 part team working across ukraine fungal diversity its soils dariia

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Science and Innovation

Ukrainian scientists race to document soil fungi amid ongoing war

Ukrainian researchers are conducting a nationwide soil sampling project to study fungal diversity. The study contributes to a global database, fills knowledge gaps about Ukraine's fungi, and may help assess the war's environmental impact. 34 contributors collected 225 samples from 21 regions.

byYuri Zoria

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Rebuilding Ukraine’s decimated scientific infrastructure will cost over $1 bn, UN says

1,443 buildings at 177 different scientific institutions across Ukraine have been damaged or destroyed by Russian attacks.

byOrysia Hrudka

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Latest news Ukraine

UNESCO: $ 1.26 billion cost to restore Ukraine’s damaged science sector

Over 1,400 buildings and 750 pieces of scientific equipment have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine. Besides, the displacement of researchers & budget cuts have dealt a severe blow to Ukraine's scientific output.

byMaria Tril

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Ukrainian national team won European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad, beating 150 teams

The Ukrainian national team for mathematics has emerged as the winner of the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad held…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Ukraine’s 30: Prominent Ukrainians who changed the country and the world. Part 2: Science

On August 24, 2021, Ukrainians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, a landmark date in…

byChristine Chraibi

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Science and Innovation

Ukrainian who enabled computer revolution awarded Ukraine’s highest honor in New York

Lyubomyr Romankiw, a US citizen of Ukrainian origin dubbed “the Ukrainian Elon Musk” by Ukrainian media, was awarded…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Ukraine

“I never actually learned Russian. I only learned Ukrainian” Harvard anthropologist on the new Harvard Ukrainian program

Making Ukraine known and understandable for the world is a key tool for winning the current hybrid war…

byBohdan Ben

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Ukrainian 20-year-old inventor’s glove translates finger signs to speech / #Being20

The glove connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth. A microcontroller reads data from the sensors on the fingers…

byWorld Media

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Investments in Ukrainian IT startups tripled in 2017 – Report

The total amount of investments in Ukrainian IT startups in 2017 increased to $265 million, representing a 231%…

byEkonomichna Pravda

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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…

byOlena Makarenko

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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…

byUA TV

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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…

byOlena Makarenko

The Ukrainian rocket Zenit-3SL is operated as a part the a space-rocket complex of the Sea Launch international consortium.

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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…

byAIN.UA

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Reversing Ukraine’s brain drain: mission possible? #UAreforms

Only underfunded? When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, Ukraine had the second largest scientific potential of…

byAlya Shandra

The team of the MarsHopper Project, winners of the 2016 People's Choice Award in NASA's Space Apps Challenge (Image: AIN.ua)

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Ukrainian MarsHopper won NASA Space Apps Challenge

The Ukrainian team became the winner of the People’s Choice Award in NASA’s Space Apps Challenge informs the…

byVarious internet sources

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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…

byUkrainian media sources

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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…

byUkrainian media sources

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The state of science in Ukraine

Usually, any comparison between Ukraine with the developed world are dismal: our GDP is smaller; corruption is more…

byVox Ukraine

Russian National Socialists marching in St. Petersburg on 1 May 2014. Photo by Radio Svoboda

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Alfred Koch: Putin’s rejection of science and fear of the educated destroying Russia’s future

Vladimir Putin “understands that the threat to his regime is to be found among the thinking and educated”…

byPaul A. Goble