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LMT Group Begins Production of the World’s Smallest Mobile Data Module

Latvian Mobile Telephone's (LMT’s) Internet of Things (IoT) engineering team has begun producing IoT Shortcut – the world’s smallest mobile data module for sensor devices, offering universal connectivity options for IoT equipment from any manufacturer worldwide. After the first tests of the …

Newspaper “Dienas Bizness”

December 10, 2025

natural sciences

LSIWC has launched a project on cultivating the Trametes versicolor fruiting body under laboratory conditions

What happens when a centuries-old medicinal mushroom, known from the forest floor, is encouraged to grow in a laboratory? Is it possible to replicate a slow and complex natural process under controlled conditions — and obtain high-value bioactive compounds from it? These are the questions the Latvi…

Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry

December 9, 2025

technologies innovation

Development of Innovative Imaging Technologies for Medical Diagnostics

Scientists from the Institute of Photonics, Electronics, and Telecommunications at the Faculty of Computer Science, Information Technologies, and Electrical Engineering at Riga Technical University (RTU), in collaboration with international partners, are presenting a unique imaging system. In the f…

Riga Technical University

December 9, 2025

science communication

How to Help a Young Person who is "Not Good at Math"? A Conversation with a Student and a Researcher

We are all born with the ability to feel what mathematicians feel, but life leads us down different tracks, said Jānis Lazovskis, researcher at the University of Latvia’s Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, on the “Science Matters” programme on Radio NABA. He also pointed out that many y…

Ieva Siliņa | Radio Naba program "In the name of science"

December 8, 2025

research achievements science communication

RSU Doctoral Student of the Year 2025 Creates an AI Programme That Counts Cells Faster Than Humans

"Science excites me, that's why I'm here! Already in school, I knew I wanted to work in research. It fascinates me because it's never boring: you constantly explore new things and uncover the unknown," says Edgars Edelmers, the energetic winner of Rīga Stradiņš University's (RSU) Doctoral Student…

Linda Rozenbaha | RSU Public Relations Department

December 5, 2025

research

UL Researchers Outline a Technology Transfer Model Tailored for Latvia

Interim results from a study conducted jointly by the University of Latvia (UL) Faculty of Economics and Management and the BA School of Business and Finance confirm that Latvia has significant untapped potential in science commercialisation. However, unlocking this potential requires profound gove…

LU Ekonomikas un sociālo zinātņu fakultāte

December 4, 2025

research youth opportunity collaboration entrepreneurship

New Food Solutions Are Born in the Innovation Lab in Vidzeme

How can new flavours be created for ice cream, beverages, or how can whey or food leftovers be transformed into yet another product? Students from Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences and abroad searched for answers to these questions together with researchers this week. Several Latvian food and …

Anna Liene Brokāne | Laura Jansone | Emvats Mosakovskis | Vidzemes TV speciāli ReTV

December 4, 2025