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An international panel of experts including a Hungarian nuclear expert has approved the next design phase of the first fusion power plant
An independent panel of experts reviewed the R&D and design work of EUROfusion (the European fusion research organization) at DEMO, the future demonstration fusion power plant, from 19 to 25...
Regulation of pharmacologically important protein revealed
Rho-associated coiled-coil containing kinase 2 (ROCK2), a large, coiled-coil containing, membrane anchored, sophisticated protein plays important role in many diseases including cardiovascular, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s diseases, and cancer. ROCK2 is assumed...
Novel method developed at KOKI further improves efficiency and reliability of cognitive experiments on rodents
The Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience of the ELKH Institute of Experimental Medicine (KOKI), led by Balázs Hangya, has developed a novel device capable of fully automated training of laboratory...
The Zirconium cladding of new Paks Nuclear Power Plant fuel elements will be examined at the Centre for Energy Research
At the end of 2020, the operation with new lead test fuel assemblies optimized for the water-uranium ratio will be started at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. The new fuel...
First report on a brand new wide band gap semiconductor, 2D indium nitride reported by researchers from EK MFA in Advanced Materials journal
Wide band gap semiconductors with a direct band gap are capable of emitting light. This is something that many people learned when the Nobel Prize was awarded for LEDs in...
Changing weather patterns pose a challenge for weather forecasts during climate change
The so-called Arctic Oscillation (AO), an important contributor to long-term winter weather forecasts, may undergo unprecedented changes in the coming decades due to anthropogenic activities, posing a challenge for winter...
Every star counts: The Gaia space telescope has now mapped over 1.8 billion stars
Our best map of the Milky Way galaxy has been expanded with new data, including that of the Sun’s closest 300,000 neighbors. Astronomers from the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy...
Explore, Verify, Predict: Genetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Responsible for COVID-19 Cases in Hungary
Genetics research, aiming to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants responsible for pandemic COVID-19 cases, is a valuable tool to explore the geographical spread of the virus retrospectively, as well as to predict...
Researchers of EK assessed raw materials to be used in nuclear-grade concretes to reduce nuclear decommissioning costs
Scientists of the Nuclear Analytical and Radiography Department (NAL) at the Energy and Environmental Safety Institute of the ELKH Centre for Energy Research studied the activation susceptibility of the pebble-sand...