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Greek Scientists Use NASA Technology to Create Centrifuge for Medical Treatments

Greek scientists in Thessaloniki have used the technology of a centrifuge machine used by NASA and the ESA to create a device to help people who suffer from problems related to an inability to exercise. The centrifuge is used in...

A Greek Scientist’s Pioneering Work on Silicon Photonics

  Despoina Petousi, a young Greek scientist based in Germany who works on devices which enable high-speed internet, recently won the prestigious “Bertha Benz Prize” for 2018 for her groundbreaking research. The prize is aimed specifically at young female doctorate-level engineers who...

Greek Scientists Find Unexpected Drug Target for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Greek scientists found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against the potentially lethal disease. (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer that affects people of all ages, often...

Twenty Thousand Scientists Left Greece in Five Years; Startups Funded by Parents

About 20,000 scientists left Greece to work abroad in the 2009-2014 period, while 83.5 percent of startups are funded by home savings, said Deputy Minister of Research and Technology Costas Fotakis. The deputy spoke at the opening of the fourth...

Greek Research Team's Findings Spark New Hope for Parkinson's Cure

A team of Greek medical researchers has discovered a substance that successfully treated laboratory mice suffering from the equivalent of human Parkinson's Disease, creating new hope of an eventual cure for humans. Their findings were published in the Proceedings...

UK-Based Greek Scientists Help Develop AI 'Judge' that Predicts European Court Rulings

A team of Greek scientists and legal experts based in the United Kingdom have helped to develop a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that is able to predict the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in...

Participate in UK Study Researching Hippocrates’ Theory Connecting Pain and Weather

A recent ongoing study in the UK reviews a theory that the Greek physician Hippocrates first explored more than 2,500 years ago; how pain and weather are connected. The study is taking place via Manchester University over the past 18 months...

Many of the World's Most Brilliant Scientific Scholars are Greeks

The list of foreign scholars born to families of Greek heritage is a long one. Let's take a look at some of the top Greek scholars that came out of Greece, or Greek lineage, and are currently working abroad in some...

Greece Gets its First Research Agency

Greece is to establish the first research agency, the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), with a loan from the European Investment Bank. Athens has received a loan of 180 million euros from EIB to boost scientific research in...

3% of the World's Greatest Scientists Are Greek; Most Live Abroad

Greece may be a small country, however, its contribution to the scientific world is disproportionately large compared to its size. Even though the Greek population is less than 0.2% of the total world population, the percentage of Greek scientists...