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Wading through the wealth of data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists have uncovered a ‘sleeping giant’. A large black hole, with a mass nearly 33 times that of the Sun, was hiding in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.

Gergely Harcos, a research professor at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, has been elected as a full member of Academia Europaea, which includes 85 Nobel laureates. He is now one of eleven mathematicians among the 154 Hungarian...

An international team of German, Austrian, and American researchers led by Barna Páll-Gergely (HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Plant Protection Institute) and András A. Sipos (HUN-REN-BME Morphodynamics Research Group) investigated...

István Winkler, scientific advisor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN RCNS) and Susan L. Denham, researcher at the Bournemouth University, created a new framework...

Once again, the CEO of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network has been elected to lead the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coalition in Hungary. The coalition's goals include improving the competitiveness of Hungarian SMEs and the national economy...

Czech physicist Václav Hanus, a research fellow of the Ultrafast Nanooptics 'Momentum' Research Group at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, has won a USD 20,000 grant that can aid...

Albert-László Barabási, a world-renowned Hungarian physicist and network researcher, has been elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Building on the latest findings in network science and graph theory, he is currently...

The cypress bark beetle ( Phloeosinus aubei) is a destructive pest of scale-leafed conifers, with its spread causing significant concern throughout Europe. Beyond the direct damage caused by its boring activity, P. aubei is also a vector of cypress...

HUN-REN CERS researcher Dániel Muth is one of the 23 scientists selected as finalists for the second edition of the international sustainability science competition.

The Flinn-Hart Award of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) was received this year by Eszter Békési, a researcher at the HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science (HUN-REN EPSS), for her outstanding research activities on...

The primary aim of the renewed collaboration between the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office ( HIPO) and HUN-REN (Hungarian Research Network) is to enhance the effective protection and utilisation of intellectual works arising from R&D activities.

Researchers at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (HUN-REN CER) are continuously studying the effects of changing environment on ecosystems, caused by human activity and climate change, and how animals respond to it.