The Institute of Culture and Arts of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) has published the research report “Digital Cultural Consumption Habits of Latvia’s Population”, which analyses how digital technologies affect cultural consumption in Latvia, how residents use digital cultural content, and ho…

Living in different information spaces, generational differences and clashes of values are often cited as reasons why people feel divided and alienated in society. Moreover, the Awakening is mentioned as a benchmark of society’s ability to unite for common goals, raising the question of whether we …

Can our well-being really be closely linked to the billions of microorganisms living in the intestinal tract? In the programme “Latvia in Science”, Ilze Elbere, a leading researcher at the National Research and Innovation Institute (NIRI), an associate professor at the University of Latvia (UL), an…

The travelling exhibition “Research Latvia 2026”, created by the Ministry of Education and Science, offers a unique opportunity to discover 12 outstanding Latvian scientists and their contributions to the development of society and research. In May, the travelling exhibition and the science calenda…

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have completed the final work required to suspend for four years all experiments that rely on the 27-kilometre-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This is related to the maintenance required by the accelerator, during which it wil…

Ornithologist Mārtiņš Briedis is a leading researcher at the Institute of Biology of the University of Latvia (UL) and has also been working at the Swiss Ornithological Institute for almost nine years, studying bird migration. M. Briedis says of himself: I still have one foot in Latvia, but my main…