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Greek-American space scientist and professor Stamatios Krimigis will be working as a pro bono adviser to the Ministry of Digital Governance, Minister Kyriakos Perrakakis announced on Tuesday.

Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about six times more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned Monday, reports AFP. 

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras invited two deeply knowledgeable experts on climate change to his office Thursday.

It was a good and useful thing to do. But it would be better if he didn't only remember to turn to the experts on occasions when his public image demanded it.

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped bring Apollo astronauts back to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with a bronze statue and a scholarship in her time.

Professor Stamatios Krimigis was well aware that Greece is second almost to none in its shocking lack of meritocracy. He knew that there are pockets of excellence at universities and institutions, people working in extremely unfavorable conditions, who, however, don't seek any kind of acknowledgment, partly because they are afraid that someone will come along to wreck it all.

The United States has expressed deep concern over the conviction in Turkey of Serkan Gölge, a U.S. citizen and NASA scientist, on charges of being a member of a terror organization.

NASA scientist Ellen Stofan gave a speech in Washington D.C. in which she said that our galaxy is comprised of two hundred million planets like ours. Thus the question is not whether scientists will discover alien life or not, but rather when, since it’s a given.