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Ice Cave near the Viševnik mountain pasture in NW Slovenia. Photo: Miha Staut
Slovenian scientists have published a study on climate change in Slovenia in the past 11,700 years in what is the most comprehensive overview of climate change in this part of the world so far. They hope it will help understand how ecosystems and societies can adapt to climate change.
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Writer Miljenko Jergović, the winner of the 2024 Vilenica Prize. Photo: Hina/STA
The 2024 Vilenica Prize for Central European literature will go to Miljenko Jergović, a Sarajevo-born Croatian author. He will receive the award at the Vilenica international literary festival in September.
Declaring the winner on 4 June, the chairman of the judging panel, Aljoša Harlamov, describ
The Jožef Stefan Institute launches a facility to advance nuclear fusion technology. Photo: Manca Ahčin/STA
Slovenia's leading research institution, the Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) has officially launched a new facility at its TRIGA nuclear research reactor meant to advance fusion energy technology. The aim is to study how and why intense radiation occurs during the cooling of fusion reactors so as to e
The Partisan Choir performs at a 2018 ceremony marking the Day of Uprising against the Occupation. Photo: Danijel Novakovič/STA
Singing of partisan songs, which emerged during the Second World War and became hugely popular in the post-war period, has been inscribed into the Slovenian register of intangible cultural heritage.
The initiative came from the Partisan Choir in Ljubljana so that several hundred songs, interspersed
A child walks on oobleck at the 15th science festival Znanstival. Photo: Jakob Pintar/STA

What happens when you start running on an innocuous looking gooey liquid and then stop? And what about when you look at the world through reversing goggles? Judging by the looks on children's faces, what matters most is the fun of it, but it is also a precious hands-on learning experience.


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Activist Nika Kovač speaks to the press at the launch of the My Voice, My Choice campaign. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Nika Kovač, the head of a women's rights NGO, who is credited with bringing the MeToo movement to Slovenia, has received a Vital Voices Global Leadership award, given out by an organisation co-founded by former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Kovač accepted the honour from US activist Taran
A Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenian researchers, along with their German counterparts, have developed and tested a new method to deliver vaccines using mucoadhesive film that sticks to the cheek mucous membrane. This method could offer greater protection against respiratory infections compared to traditional methods, but fu
Actor Branko Šturbej. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
One of the most acclaimed and popular Slovenian actors, Branko Šturbej is the winner of this year's Borštnik Ring, the top honour for theatre actors in the country, which has been presented as part of the Maribor Theatre Festival since 1970.
"Branko Šturbej has a diverse range as an actor that incl
The National and University Library (NUK) in Ljubljana. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
The National and University Library (NUK) is celebrating the 250th anniversary since its inception. Its present home one of the most impressive buildings in Ljubljana, it is Slovenia's largest and most important library.
The library developed from the Ljubljana Lyceum Library, started in 1774 when
Tivoli Park, Ljubljana's central park. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Plans for a mega concert in Ljubljana's central park have sparked a public controversy over whether mass events should be banned from what is one of the capital's major conservation areas in order to protect wildlife.
The person at the centre of controversy is Magnifico, a popular singer-songwriter
The Orion Stars, prizes honouring achievements in the audiovisual field. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
An episode of a crime series set in Maribor was the most watched content made for Slovenian TV audiences last year, followed by a documentary on a 1980s fundraising campaign for Slovenian skiers.
The first episode of season 2 of The Cases of Inspector Vrenko, a crime series based on the novels by A
A police sign on a windshield. Photo: Nik Jevšnik/STA
The police have tracked down a 36-year-old man believed to be responsible for an online comment threatening a school shooting attack that caused a considerable amount of alarm, heightened security around schools and criticism of the police in early April.
The threat was made on 2 April in the comme