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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

Europe

Building Europe’s frontline against future pandemics

Being prepared for emerging infectious diseases is not only about responding to emergencies. It also means having the right research systems in place every day, so that new knowledge can…

5 February 2026 · 7 min read

science-technology

Capitalising on Europe’s research connections to tackle cancer

For Dr Pavla Bouchalová, a cancer researcher in the department of biochemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, answering complex questions about how colorectal tumours behave requires access to data,…

3 February 2026 · 5 min read