AlphaGalileo Science News of the week 16-22 January 2012.

AlphaGalileo Science News of the week 09-15 January 2012.

AlphaGalileo Science News of the Week 02-08 January 2012.

Members of the European Parliament call upon their colleagues to support scientific partnerships between Europe and Africa. European involvement in African science and especially in current radio astronomy projects presents a unique opportunity to bridge the traditional divide between developed and developing economies and contribute to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. The Written Declaration on Science Capacity Building in Africa: promoting European African radio astronomy partnerships is open for signatures until February 16, 2012.

On January 12, portrait of polymath Robert Hooke will be hung at the Institute of Physics (IOP) in London. The portrait of the scientist is the work of Rita Greer, a history painter.

If we assume that our universe has an infinite number of stars and that they are evenly distributed, then the aggregate of many stars shine you should not depend on the distance and the night sky would be black, but bright. Like in any direction we look, the sky should appear just as bright as when we look at the Milky Way Galaxy. In addition, because each line of sight would end on the surface of a star, being so many, every point in the sky would be even brighter than the surface of a star. This problem is Olbers's paradox.

In love with Mihai Eminescu's writings, which he believes belong to everybody not only to the Romanians, South African theologian, philosopher and poet James Moulder together with Professor Mariana Nicolae and Ph.D. candidate Ela Nicolae from ASE Bucharest, launched the Romanian-English bilingual volume  -"47 Poems by Mihai Eminescu". The authors say that the book is the end result of a soul project.

GIS1 is a single-chamber system simulating the human gastrointestinal tract. It was developed by Lecturer Dr. Emanuel Vamanu, in order to test in laboratory certain categories of products, without involving human subjects or laboratory animals.

December 1 is the National Day of Romania. It is also the International Day of the Antarctic, known as ANTARCTICA DAY. On this occasion The National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) pays homage to the leader of the Romanian modern polar research Teodor Gheorghe Negoiță (1946-2011).

It is true that physicists have turned to the cosmos as the true nuclear physics laboratory, but to hire astrophysics experiment on Earth is something else. Therefore, first, I would like to make a small foray into astrophysics. This to highlight the difference we found so far in using scientific experiment, where we trained, we humans, on this occasion.