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Making a splash: bringing ocean learning into every classroom
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Environment

Making a splash: bringing ocean learning into every classroom

By Barbara Pinho – This article was originally published in Horizon the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Around 40% of the EU’s population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast, and large parts of the continent’s…

17 February 2026 · 7 min read

Scientists hunt dark matter ‘stars’ that mimic black holes
Artist’s rendition of two dark matter stars, or bosons, colliding in deep space. © Nicolás Sanchis-Gual y Rocío García Souto, University of Valencia, Spain, 2021

Europe

Scientists hunt dark matter ‘stars’ that mimic black holes

By Jonathan O’Callaghan - This article was originally published in Horizon the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. In 2019, a strange event was observed in the depths of space. Called GW190521, the event…

12 February 2026 · 6 min read

Archeology

Achaemenids, a dynasty of Persian kings (2)

By Fr. Dmitry Yurevich Darius [Old Persian - preserving good; Hebrew: ; Greek: Ϫαρεῖος], the name of three Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty, as well as a Mede mentioned…

11 February 2026 · 11 min read

Archeology

Nabonidus

By V. V. Minaeva Nabonidus [Akkadian - "[the god] Nabu is exalted"], the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigned from 556 to 539 BCE and was overthrown by the…

11 February 2026 · 11 min read

Archeology

Achaemenids, a dynasty of Persian kings (1)

By A. A. Nemirovsky Artaxerxes [Persian: Khshayârshâ, Greek: ̓Αρταξέρξης], the name of the Persian king Xerxes I (c. 486-465 BC) of the Achaemenid dynasty, used in the Synodal translation of…

11 February 2026 · 4 min read

Christianity

Orthodox Fundamentalism: Social Portrait and Sources (part 1)

By Konstantin Kostyuk Among the social changes in the post-Soviet period, a phenomenon such as Orthodox fundamentalism has increasingly attracted attention. Due to the long atheistic tradition and the secular…

8 February 2026 · 38 min read