Latvian defence technology company SUBmerge Baltic and French defence and naval technology company Naval Group signed a memorandum of cooperation in Riga on Wednesday, providing for cooperation between the two companies in the development of autonomous underwater systems and their integration solut…

Taste is one of the senses that is difficult to fool — we can misread or mishear something, but our taste buds usually tell us quite accurately what it is that we are eating. Moreover, it turns out that taste can also be trained and used as an important measurement tool in food technology, Professo…

The postdoctoral research project “Assessment of Early Childhood Nutrition Quality and Development of Tailored Tools for the Implementation of Nutrition Guidelines” (project No. 1.1.1.9/LZP/2/25/211) is continuing at Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (LBTU). The aim of the project…

Because of climate change, we are already facing and will continue to face many problems. If we do not recognise them and act according to the situation, we may experience not only deteriorating health, but also increasing refugee flows and nervous breakdown. There are also smaller things that we d…

The University of Latvia (UL) has reached an agreement with one of the world’s leading universities — Stanford University — on the establishment of a special research scholarship for Latvian researchers. Its aim is to give UL researchers the opportunity to spend up to three months at Stanford, carr…

This is not a fantasy article about the medicine of the future, where all ailments in the body are fixed with a single touch of a magic tool. Let us find out what modern scientific discoveries could truly achieve in improving human health over the next decade. Some of these possibilities are alread…