Almost 230 schools and kindergartens across Slovenia received bomb threats by email early on 27 January and at least 18 cancelled classes in what turned out to be a hoax.
The schools received a generic message similar to emails sent to schools in other countries in Europe in recent months.
Because

Restaurants where hospitality students put their skills into practice in real life are a proven success. One such teaching restaurant, Sedem in Maribor is recommended by top culinary guides, and KULT316 in Ljubljana is another place to go for a fine dining experience.
Restaurant Sedem, which transl

The Astronomical Observatory on the Golovec hill overlooking Ljubljana has acquired a new, 80-centimetre telescope, the largest yet in the country. It replaces an older one whose mirror measured 9cm less in diameter.
The observatory is operated by the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mathematics

Slovenian researchers, together with international experts, have made a groundbreaking discovery about the evolution of the properties of cosmic dust in galaxies that formed soon after the Big Bang, based on data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Their study, published in the scientific journal

Slovenia became a full member of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 1 January in what is seen as a milestone that will create opportunities for business and science, and strengthen the country's competitiveness in the global space industry.
This achievement is a reward for the country's successful

Slovenia will co-finance the final stages of research of orphan drugs to help children with rare diseases under legislative amendments confirmed by parliament after the case of a five-year-old boy with a rare genetic disorder prompted a massive fundraising campaign.
Under the changes to the Scienti

Slovenian eighth-grade students rank slightly above international average in computer and IT literacy, but their scores have dropped since a decade ago and in computer thinking skills they fell below international average, the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) shows.
The

Scientists, science communicators and students from Slovenia and abroad came together last week for three days of lectures, talks, exhibitions and experiments during the Slovenian Science Festival, which has been explaining science for 30 years.
The first lecture at the festival, hosted by the Ljub

Roman Jerala, a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, has won his second advanced grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a €2.5 million project that aims to develop new ways of regulating proteins that could be used for therapeutic purposes such as cancer immunotherapy.
Jerala, head