Plant breeding and genetically modified food
pišeThe Slovene word for plant breeding žlahtnjenje is really difficult to pronounce. I have already been asked by journalists if it could be replaced…
Science
Children have better taste than you might think
pišeThe best are medium cooked vegetables, according to boys and girls included in Australian science research. Researchers asked 82 five- and six-year-olds, accompanied by…
Is wolf culling necessary?
pišeThe 2012 killing of two she-wolves, Tonka and Tia, has fuelled a lively discussion in the media and among the general public about wolf…
Discovering the universe’s biggest known explosions with a Very Large Telescope
pišeGamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions known in the universe. They can be detected even if they happen in the farthest reaches of…
On the street, I’m no longer a person with a PhD and a brain
pišeProbably like most women, I have also experienced sexual harassment. I don’t know if it was the first time, but it was definitely the…
My glass remains half-full
pišeDoctoral students at the University of Ljubljana Medical Faculty have to defend their thesis twice: first in front of a committee and a few months…
Matjaž Gregorič: Biomaterial Research
pišeFigure 1: The spider web is made of interwoven non-sticky (blue) and sticky (red) silk threads. Figure 2: The mechanical properties of web…
Basic facts about vaccination and vaccines
pišeVaccination is one of the top ten public health achievements in medical sciences that has helped to reduce illnesses and the mortality rate as…
First case of an ordered liquid that is also a magnet
pišeLIQUID CRYSTAL MAGNET Although magnetism is a well-known phenomenon in solids, it has only been observed in two liquid systems – in one of…
Even easily accessible berries have their price
pišeRecently a news story broke in Australia that due to the consumption of infected frozen berries from China, several people had contracted hepatitis A….
I’m European. So what?
pišeI’m Slovene. I’m Slovene. (…) At the crossroads leading to Mecca and Bethlehem. (…) The Balkans are not my home, the Champs-Elyséés even less….
The devil’s advocate: serious threats to freedom of speech
pišeSerious and unjustifiable discourtesy towards others contains no constructive contribution to social debate on generally important questions. The same goes for insults and crude…
The future of female researchers in Slovenia is uncertain
pišeIn 2004 I graduated in biology. Since I like researching and working in the laboratory, my undergraduate dissertation was based on laboratory research in…
Who are we? What do we have? What do we want?
pišeTHE DRAFT DECLARATION ON SLOVENE FOREIGN POLICY First of all, let me pose the following question to the reader: What is Slovenia’s key distinctive…
The Habsburg femmes fatales and the loyalist Slovenes
pišeAfter almost twenty years of research into the activities of the most important ruling family in Slovene history, I have already got used to…