Research

[:el]A team of researchers from the UK and Russia, among them 2 Greek researchers, have successfully demonstrated that a type of ‘magic dust’ which combines light and matter can be used to solve complex problems and could eventually surpass the capabilities of even the most powerful...

Three Greek scientists find ancient viruses in human DNA

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Ancient viruses may be lurking in humans’ DNA after scientists noted a strange protein in pregnant women, according to a September study. A protein dubbed HEMO has been found in unborn babies, but the gene originally came from a virus which may have infected mammalian...

Greek researcher wins in NIH New Innovator Awards

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[:el] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded grants to two UC San Francisco researchers to pursue innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, one of them is the Greek researcher, Eleni Linos. The highly competitive grants, which were announced Oct. 5 among...

Researchers quantum cryptography in telecommunications and the Internet

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[:el] Eleni Diamanti is a researcher at LIP6 (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6), the computer science laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie Curie. LIP6 is a joint research laboratory of UPMC and CNRS, the French national research organization. Her research interests are centered on quantum...

Researches the physical and chemical processes of planetary atmospheres

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[:el] Panayotis Lavvas is a Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Groupe de Spéctrometrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique (GSMA) laboratory of the Reims Champagne Ardenne University (URCA). His research interests focus on the physical and chemical processes of planetary atmospheres....

Greek developed novel technique that spots warning signs of extreme events

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Many extreme events — from a rogue wave that rises up from calm waters, to an instability inside a gas turbine, to the sudden extinction of a previously hardy wildlife species — seem to occur without warning. It’s often impossible to predict when such bursts...

Study unveils differences in textile cultures of Italy & Greece

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[:el] Textiles represent one of the earliest human craft technologies and applied arts, and their production would have been one of the most important time, resource and labour consuming activities in the ancient past. In archaeological contexts, textiles are relatively rare finds, especially in Mediterranean...

Tackling longstanding challenges in cancer treatment

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[:el] Stavroula Sofou is an associate professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University and also an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a member of the...

One of the best young computer architects globally

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[:el] Christos (Christoforos) Kozyrakis is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team (MAST), a research group that investigates hardware architectures, runtime management environments, system software, and programming models for systems ranging from cellphones...

Designs safer nanomaterials

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