Science & EducationScience & Technology
One Slovenian signature dish, the kranjska sausage, has already been in space, but another dish could follow if students from a Ljubljana school win a competition organised by the US space agency NASA after making the shortlist.
Two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational centre offering second
Environment & NatureScience & Education
A Slovenian-led expedition has discovered four new spider species in a tropical forest in Madagascar, an island known for its rich biodiversity. All four raft spiders belong to the Dolomedes genus.
Biologist Matjaž Kuntner from the National Institute of Biology (NIB) and Kuang-Ping Yu, a doctoral c
PoliticsScience & Education
The only Slovenian school in Latin America, Colegio Esloveno Anton Martin Slomšek in Mendoza, is struggling for survival amid the deepening economic crisis in Argentina, but efforts are under way in Slovenia to raise the necessary funding.
The school's financial woes were discussed by the parli
Gašper Beguš, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, combines research on human speech, sperm whale communication and artificial intelligence (AI) to understand how AI learns, and in this way answer the question of whether humans are truly unique.
Dr. Beguš first studied comparativ
Soap bubbles are mostly known for their attention-grabbing effect on small children, but Slovenian researchers from the Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) have now shown that these also have the property of generating colour-tunable laser light.
So far it has been known that the allure of soap bubbles co
Environment & NatureScience & Education
The rapidly rising use of digital technologies by people when spending and documenting their time in nature and the influence this has on the aesthetic and general experiencing of nature is the subject matter of a Slovenia-led EU-supported project.
The study, the Digital Aestheticisation of Fragil
Slovenian 15-year-olds scored well in mathematical and scientific literacy, but ranked below the OECD average in reading literacy in the latest PISA Global Competence study, the first since the Covid-19 pandemic. Experts are worried about the negative trends that this major international survey has
BusinessScience & Education
The University of Ljubljana's School of Economics and Business has gained five spots to place 64th in this year's ranking of Europe's best business schools by the British newspaper Financial Times (FT).
The only business school in the region on the list, the Ljubljana School of Economics and Busine
Slovenian primary school children will have to learn a foreign language from grade one under amendments to the Primary Schools Act that the government confirmed on 30 November. A plan to introduce a mandatory second language in higher grades has been aborted.
Primary schools can currently offer the
