A non-profit scientific organization Conference Board of Canada, dedicated to researching and analyzing economic trends and organizational performance, with support of the Government of Canada, is developing the Canada-Ukraine Trade and Investments Support project (CUTIS) that will help small and ...
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NASA’s Space Apps Challenge 2016 and Education: The World’s Largest Hackathon at Various Locations of the World
Space Apps Challenge is a global NASA’s hackathon known for its front-edge solutions to space challenges and environmental problems. Despite being a forum for top IT geeks and other hi-tech folks, Space Apps Challenge presents great educational opportunities as well. This ...
Read More »Bison about to be national mammal of the U.S.
After decimating North America’s bison population to the brink of extinction and then fighting to bring that same population back to sustainability, the United States will now make bison its official mammal, Mashable.com reports. The House of Representatives passed The ...
Read More »OSCE warns of ‘worrying levels’ of cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine
The statement by Ertugrul Apakan, head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, came as four civilians were reported killed in shelling in eastern Ukraine, Radio Liberty reports. At least four civilians were killed April 26 when three ...
Read More »First NASA Space Apps Challenge Hackathon in Ukraine
23-24 April 2016 the annual global NASA’s Space Apps Challenge was conducted in Ukraine for the first time. More than a hundred creative people from the capital and many cities gathered in Kyiv to solve the problems of the National Aerospace ...
Read More »SpaceX wants to send a spaceship to Mars by 2018
The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX announced on Twitter today that it plans to send its robotic Dragon capsule to Mars as early as 2018, Space.com reports. “Red Dragons will inform the overall Mars architecture,” SpaceX representatives tweeted today (April 27), ...
Read More »FBI not to share iPhone unlocking mechanism due to lack of ownership
Amy S. Hess, the FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology, said in a statement that when it hired an outside party to unlock the phone, the agency did not purchase the rights to the technique, Reuters reports. As ...
Read More »Wladimir Klitschko on BBC: I will conquer Fury in a ring on July 9. Watch me!
“Losing feels good,” Klitschko, 40, told. “I’m glad that my hand was not raised that night,” Wladimir told BBC Radio 5 live. “Failure is not an option unless it is the only way to get better – and I had ...
Read More »U.S. insists on special status for Donbas, militant amnesty, local election
U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Nuland, who arrived in Kyiv on Monday, announced these key messages at a meeting with representatives of the Ukrainian parliament’s factions on Tuesday, says representative of the Samopomich’s faction Victoria Voytsitska, who ...
Read More »Big Ben chimes to be silenced for £29 mln refurbishment
The Parliament says it has no choice but to stop the chimes of Big Ben, after 157 years of nearly unbroken service, to prevent its mechanism from failing, the BBC reports. The Elizabeth Tower, which houses it, will also be ...
Read More »Mitsubishi Motors says cheated on mileage tests for 25 years – Reuters
It said aggressive internal targets may have put pressure on employees to overstate the fuel economy of its vehicles, and would set up an external committee to investigate the matter, Reuters reports. Japan’s sixth-largest automaker has lost half its market ...
Read More »Ukrainian President established Chornobyl Radiation and Environmental Biosphere Reserve
The newly established Biosphere Reserve will become one of the largest environmental institutions of Ukraine. It is located on the territory of Ivankov and Polissia districts of Kyiv region within the exclusion zone and zone of unconditional (obligatory) resettlement. The ...
Read More »EBRD shows Chornobyl’s New Safe Confinement construction site
According to the statement of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), never before has such a huge structure been assembled under comparable circumstances and in the vicinity of a heavily contaminated site, Joinfo.ua reports. Work on the Chornobyl’s ...
Read More »30th anniversary of Chornobyl: Ukrainian President honored memory of liquidators and victims of disaster
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko laid flowers to memorial “To Heroes of Chornobyl” and memorial sign “To Warriors of Chornobyl” in the Memorial Complex of the Victims of Chornobyl Disaster, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the Presidential press service. During his ...
Read More »Ukraine marks 30th anniversary of Chornobyl disaster
According to archive data, at 01:23 on April 26, 1986, a reactor at power unit 4 of the Chornobyl NPP was completely destroyed in a series of thermal explosions, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to UNIAN. A significant amount of radioactive ...
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