The Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS) announces its annual competition “The Most Significant Achievements in Science in Latvia in 2025”, which will take place for the twenty-fourth time this year. The application consists of a public section, which must include the title of the work, the nam…

Techritory 2025 – the international forum on digital transformation and connectivity – opened today, bringing together more than 1,500 participants from around the world. This year, special attention is devoted to security issues and future technologies, focusing particularly on protecting critical…

Social anthropology plays a crucial role in understanding people, societies, cultural diversity, and habits. Anna Žabicka, a PhD candidate living abroad, is a social anthropologist specialising in the anthropology of ageing, care, kinship, death and dying, medicine, and health. The science communic…

To significantly strengthen the fight against disinformation and develop new, practical tools for debunking it, a four-year research initiative "Artificial Intelligence for Debunking Disinformation" (Participative Assistive AI-powered Tools for Supporting Trustworthy Online Activity of Citizens and…

The correct answer – science! Science is not something abstract; it permeates our daily lives even where we don’t notice it. For each of us, it means something slightly different. To help us understand it better, we can turn to such rescuers as the Latvian-developed "Tēzaurs" or the internationally…

The Latvian biotechnology company “Alternative Plants” has developed two new active ingredients derived from plant cells, designed for use in anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing skincare products. The development of these new active ingredients was carried out in collaboration with partners fr…