Science

Gergely Fabian, the state secretary for industry policy and technology, attended the 25th China Hi-Tech Fair in Shenzhen, in south-east China, and opened the Hungarian pavilion there, the ministry said on Friday.

Hungary is "doing well" in meeting its goals set down in its space strategy, a government official has said.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and several members of his government met Nobel Prize winning scientist Ferenc Krausz for talks on Wednesday, the PM's press chief said.

A team of four students from the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Secondary School Programme won a silver medal at the October 7-10 FIRST Global Challenge international robotics competition held in Singapore.

The Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security Services (ABTL) and the National Archives Agency of the Republic of Moldova (ANA) signed a cooperation agreement on document exchange in Budapest on Wednesday.

Hungary on Tuesday signed an agreement with US-based Axiom Space that will see the country send another astronaut to space after several decades, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Austin on Tuesday.

The ELI-ALPS laser centre in Szeged, in southern Hungary, is the future of Europe, Regional Development Minister Tibor Navracsics said on Thursday.

LIBER, Europe's largest organisation of specialised and research libraries, will hold its annual conference in Budapest between July 5 and 7, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Library and Information Centre (MTA KIK), which is organising the event, said on Thursday.

The Budapest University of Technology's (BME) fifth MRC-100 small satellite was launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket's Transporter 8 mission on Monday from the Vandenberg Space Center in California, the university said on Tuesday.

The European Union's planned regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) may bring about overly strict regulations and a substantial burden of compliance, hindering developments in the sector, Hungarian industry association IVSZ said on Wednesday.