Filipino Community Leaders/Representatives of Civic/Religious/Interest/Regional Groups in Austria met on Sunday, 05 May 2024, to discuss and plan the events and programs for the upcoming Pamana IV Philippine-Austrian Festivals Parade on 1 June 2024, from Stephansplatz to Votivkirche 1010, Vienna, Austria. The historical event is spearheaded by the European Network of Filipino Diaspora Austria (ENFID-Austria ) under the patronage of the Embassy of the Philippines in Vienna and cooperation with the City of Vienna!!! Join the Filipino community in Austria in this colorful street parade featuring the most popular festivals…
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Bacteria can decompose plastic waste
Mountains of plastic waste are a constantly growing environmental problem. There are also hardly any recycling models for some commonly used plastics. Plastic-decomposing bacteria, which are added to these polymers during production, could offer a future solution, a USA study shows. A world without plastic is no longer conceivable. Plastic is used everywhere in beverage bottles, packaging material, clothing, crockery, floor coverings, window frames or furniture. It is light, inexpensive to produce and, above all, durable. This makes it a massive environmental problem, as plastic is difficult or impossible to…
Read MoreOrthodox Church celebrates Easter today, May 5
Today, Sunday, the Orthodox Church celebrates Easter. The different date of Easter in the Orthodox Church compared to the Western Church is due to divergent calculation methods. Easter liturgies take place in all federal states. The Eastern churches determine the date of Easter according to the old Julian calendar and according to a different method than the Western churches, which adhere to the Gregorian calendar reform of the 16th century. The dates of Easter can, therefore, be up to five weeks apart. There will be an expected Easter date again…
Read MoreNASA discovers ‘second Earth’ in the universe – the planet was almost overlooked
Are there other habitable planets outside our solar system? What has long sounded like science fiction is suddenly no longer so unrealistic: NASA’s Tess research satellite has discovered a planet that experts believe is potentially habitable and roughly the same size as Earth. NASA discovery: Second Earth sighted—it’s relatively closeThe news was announced by NASA at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu. The discovered exoplanet is called ‘TOI 700 d’. As reported by CNN, it has 40 percent of the mass and size of its sun.…
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