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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…
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…
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…
“I never actually learned Russian. I only learned Ukrainian” Harvard anthropologist on the new Harvard Ukrainian program
[editorial]Emily Channell-Justice, who heads one of the few Ukrainian academic programs in the world, the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine…
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…
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%…
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’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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Europe’s first electronic computer was created in Ukraine
[quote style=”boxed” float=”left”]The first electronic computing machine was called the Small Electronic Calculating Machine (Russian: MESM)[/quote] Not everyone…
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…
The state of science in Ukraine
Usually, any comparison between Ukraine with the developed world are dismal: our GDP is smaller; corruption is more…
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”…
