public health

Taste Buds Cannot Be Fooled. How Do Food Technologists Use This Sense?
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…
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LSM.lv Dzīvesstila redakcija, "Zināmais nezināmajā"

July 20, 2026

public health research

Study on early childhood nutrition and the implementation of healthy eating guidelines continues
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…
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Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

July 20, 2026

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Lecture

Artūrs Logins’ guest lecture “The Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence”

2026-07-24

4:00 pm

LU Zinātņu māja, Jelgavas iela 3, Rīga

international collaboration science

University of Latvia researchers will have the opportunity to receive a scholarship for research visits to Stanford University
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…
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Latvijas Universitāte

July 17, 2026

research public health

This Is Not Fantasy — Real Research That Could Soon Significantly Improve the Treatment of Serious Diseases
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…
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Linda Rozenbaha, Rīga Stradiņš University

July 16, 2026

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Lecture

Lecture by Nobel Prize Laureate Morten Meldal

2026-07-21

10:00 am

Nacionālais pētniecības un inovāciju institūts, Teikas zinātniskais centrs, Aizkraukles iela 21

international collaboration

In Brussels, Switzerland concludes its Eureka Presidency and Belgium takes over
On 29 June this year, the annual event of SwissCore, the Swiss office for European research, innovation and education, “Cooperate to Innovate — What We Can Learn from the Eureka Network”, took place in Brussels, Belgium, and was also dedicated to the conclusion of the Swiss Eureka Presidency. As Sw…
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Latvian Council of Science

July 16, 2026

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Seminar

Online seminar “How Deep Tech Companies Break into CERN, ESA and EU Funding Systems”

2026-08-26

10:00 am

Online

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