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“Poor Man’s Evolution”
“Poor Man’s Evolution”
A recently published study by HAS member Eörs Szathmáry has stirred up the interest of the scientific community. The researcher has constructed a theoretical evolutionary model describing the very early stages of evolution some 3.5 billion years ago, an era before nucleic acids took front stage. If further experiments confirm the theory scientists might find one of the missing links in early evolution.
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Austrian Academy Awards Momentum Winning Researcher
Austrian Academy Awards Momentum Winning Researcher
One of the winners of last year’s Momentum Program originally initiated by HAS President József Pálinkás, researcher of the Biochemistry Department of Eötvös Lóránd University Mihály Kovács has been awarded with the Ignaz L. Lieben-prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on January 18 in Vienna. The award is meant to recognise the scientific merits of the Hungarian researcher.
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Leaders at World Science Forum Seek New Era of Cooperation
Leaders at World Science Forum Seek New Era of Cooperation
Efforts to solve global challenges—from health and energy to environmental protection and economic development—will require closer international science cooperation and more robust engagement of the public in every nation, research and policy leaders concluded at the World Science Forum.
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János Szentágothai Commemorated at a Neuroscience Symposium in Szeged
János Szentágothai Commemorated at a Neuroscience Symposium in Szeged
The symposium of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) was launched by the welcoming address of HAS President József Pálinkás on January 19 in Szeged. This conference was the opening event in a series of programs to be organised during the memorial year honouring former HAS President and world-renowned brain researcher János Szentágothai.
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HAS Institute’s International Success in 3D Microscopy
HAS Institute’s International Success in 3D Microscopy
A research team at HAS’ Institute of Experimental Medicine has developed a unique high-speed, three-dimensional laser microscope capable of simultaneous in vivo measurements of the activity of hundreds of neurons, and information transport. Their results were published in the prestigious Nature Methods.
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The Crisis of the Euro-zone and the Future of the EU
Director of the French Institute of International Relationships, Thierry de Montbrial urged structural reforms and changing the mechanisms of decision-making within EU member states in his lecture held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. According to the researcher, unless a solution is found for the crisis of euro, the EU may begin to disintegrate.
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Dogs Understand Human Communicative Intentions
Dogs are able to recognise human communicative intentions both by words and vision, say Hungarian researchers. According to team head József Topál, dogs and infants aged between 6-24 months show remarkable similarities in their socio-cognitive skills at intention recognition. Researchers have recently published their findings in the prestigious Current Biology magazine.
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The Future of Drug Therapy
“The ultimate goal of drug research is to synthesize more effective new medicines than currently available. Therefore such research must embrace low-risk approaches promising rapid results”, said Austrian biochemist Christian R. Noe in his inauguration lecture. The scientist believes that Hungarian biological, biochemical and biomedicinal research ventures are very likely to become cutting-edge science.
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From the Structure of the Nucleus to a Red Giant Star
Hungarian scientists have published several articles in the most prestigious scientific journals in 2011, e.g. Nature, Science, a journal of the British Royal Society and the magazine of the American Chemical Society. Among the authors one can find biologists, chemists, physicists, research doctors, and astronomers.
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The Visegrád Four Stand Up for the Support of Science
At a recent conference of V4 academies, Vice-President of HAS Domokos Szász informed the representatives of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Academies that the Hungarian Academy of Sciences aims to substantially increase the financial support available for research and development between 2012 and 2020. Organised in 1999 for the first time, this year’s traditional science policy event focused on the issue of research funding.
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Interim General Directors of HAS’ New Research Centres Appointed
Newly appointed interim general directors of HAS’ new research centres taking office from January 2012 were encouraged to make confident but open minded decisions. HAS President József Pálinkás urged the nine new directors to establish research centres that can rely on a stable financial background while also attracting the co-operation of the scientific community.
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Lendület ("Momentum") Programme - Call for Applications
The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences calls for applications to establish research teams from 2012 at MTA research centres and institutes as well as at Hungarian universities. The HUF 1.25 bn, allocated for new Lendület projects in 2012, will allow funding of approximately 25-30 new Lendület research teams.
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