Most of the lectures and sections of World Science Forum can be watched via live stream. The video recordings will be published at mta.hu later.

This year's Forum focuses on the ethical problems scientists face and on the responsibility of researchers for the consequences of their scientific results. The organisers wish to consider these important issues in a broad perspective. "When talking about freedom of research we must address questions like: How to share resources between basic research and innovation? How can science funding be made more transparent and just? Why is it so crucial for scientists to take part in the policy making process?" These were the essential messages during president László Lovász's welcome speech.

The most prestigious professional prize was awarded to the English edition of the Natural Environment volume of the National Atlas of Hungary, edited by the Geographical Institute of Research.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán appointed Miklós Maróth, former vice president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as president of the Managing Body of the Loránd Eötvös Research Network Secretariat for five years.

Academia Europaea has elected five new researchers working in Hungary, among them academicians and Doctors of the MTA. Currently, the organizations has 121 members from Hungary including the newly elected ones.

The Presidium of the MTA established the title “Excellent MTA Institute” at their latest, extraordinary meeting.

Most aspects of stellar evolution proceed far too slowly to be directly observable in a single star on human timescales. The thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch is one exception. The combination of state-of-the-art modelling techniques with data assimilated from observations collected by amateur astronomers over many decades provide, for the first time, the opportunity to identify a star occupying precisely this evolutionary stage.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences regretfully acknowledges the fact that despite the undivided disapproval of the Hungarian and international scientific communities and the researchers of the Academy, the Hungarian Parliament has passed the law.

Polish, German and Austrian Rectors’ Conferences call upon the Hungarian Government to preserve the institutional autonomy and academic freedom of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.