Foreign language exams for candidates wishing to enter doctoranture and dissertanture will be held on January 26. Those who wish to enter the master studies of higher educational institutions and ANAS will pass the exam on February 23. The exam in the Azerbaijani language (as the state language) will be carried out on May 3, and the second on May...
On January 23, an educational seminar on the competition announced in the framework of the joint program on the cooperation agreement signed between the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) and Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Turkey (TUBITAK) was held in the Main Building of ANAS. The event was attended by senior officials of the departments of international...
Technology giant Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands, so that they can scan for purchases with their palms at checkout areas in physical stores, people familiar with the project told The Wall Street Journal. While Amazon’s plan is in the early stages, the company has reportedly begun working with Visa on...
Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a new type of killer T-cell that offers hope of a “one-size-fits-all” cancer therapy. T-cell therapies for cancer - where immune cells are removed, modified and returned to the patient’s blood to seek and destroy cancer cells - are the latest paradigm in cancer treatments. The most widely-used therapy, known as CAR-T, is personalised to...
Qianxi Robotic Catering Group, a unit under Chinese real estate giant Country Garden Holdings, has opened China's first fully automated restaurant in Guangzhou. The diner, which the Guangdong province-based firm claims has 46 different types of robot and goes by the name Foodom, opened on Jan. 12. Robots welcome customers, cook their food, make their drinks, deliver their orders and...
The Moon has no breathable oxygen – which obviously presents a hurdle for astronauts. There’s only so much we can take with us, so figuring out how to produce it there is crucial. Now, ESA researchers have created a prototype device that can make oxygen out of the most common thing on the Moon – dirt. Moondust – more officially...
Today, the Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences  conducts an event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy, organized by the Primary Territorial Organization of the New Azerbaijan Party, the Free Trade Union, the Council of Women and the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists. Opening the event with a moment of...
30 years have passed since 20 January tragedy – a heroic page of Azerbaijan people. In 1990, at night January 19 to 20, 1990, military units of the Soviet army committed an unprecedented massacre against civilian population in Baku city, who stood up to establish an independent state and gain its sovereignty. However, this bloody crime, people could not...
Bend, roll, twist, scrunch, fold, flex. These are terms we might use to describe a lithe gymnast doing a complex floor routine. But batteries? Yet these are precisely the words the company Jenax in South Korea wants you to use when talking about its batteries. The Busan-based firm has spent the past few years developing J.Flex, an advanced lithium-ion battery...
This is the Zanco Tiny T2, a phone just a little bit bigger than your average USB memory stick. Its manufacturer claims it’s the smallest phone ever. It looks the part. To start, the company claims the Zanco Tiny T2 only weighs 31 grams (1.09 ounces) and measures an absurdly small 2.4 x 1.18 x 0.65 inches. Fully funded in Kickstarter...