Portuguese public transportation

Imagine this: you’re comfortably seated in the plush, air-conditioned belly of a Portuguese high-speed train, slicing through landscapes so jaw-droppingly gorgeous they’d make a renaissance painter chuck his easel in despair and cry with utter...

New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky

Press Release 31 October 2025 A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was able to...

At the SIDEC conference on future technologies and artificial intelligence

The fair was visited today by a wide range of interested professionals, and featured company presentations and numerous meetings between company representatives. The directors of defence procurement for the Slovenian and Montenegrin ministries of...

Days of wine and noses: the life of a critic

It’s the spitting that you notice the first time you go to a professional wine tasting. A whole room full of serious, studious, often very smartly dressed people sniffing, sipping and swirling their glasses, but mostly, and most strikingly,...

EU Roundup: Big BESS project news in Greece, Germany, Romania and Portugal

The project uses BESS technology from China-based Sungrow, comprised of 26 units of 5.015kWh each using 314Ah cells from manufacturer CALB. Sungrow also provided the inverters. Themelio will help reduce curtailments on renewables because of system...

Unspoilt corner of Portugal fears high-end tourism

Above the pine forests and dunes that stretch along the nearly deserted beaches of southwestern Portugal, cranes rise from building sites soon to be luxury hotels - a sign of the region's contentious transformation into a playground for the...

Unspoilt corner of Portugal fears arrival of high-end tourism

Luxury developments are sprouting up close to the nearly deserted beaches of Comporta in southwestern Portugal - Copyright AFP Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA Levi FERNANDES Above the pine forests and dunes that stretch along the nearly deserted beaches...

Community | International Colloquium on Portuguese Migration and Mill Work in New England – UMassD

Posted on 21 October 2025. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will host an international colloquium titled “Portuguese Migration and Mill Work in New England: Past, Present, and Future of Portuguese American Studies” on Friday, October 24...

Urban Reform with a Strategic Vision for the Future of Portuguese Cities

However, it is precisely in the moments of great difficulty that opportunities arise to rethink and transform the national urban paradigm. A strategic, integrated, and ambitious reform can be the path to more inclusive, sustainable, and...

Portugal’s golden visas boost cars, nuts, equities

The weekday streets are quiet in the mountain town of Caramulo, the calm broken only by the growl of a sports car or the rattle of a vintage vehicle heading to the auto shop. But the town’s museum is busy with visitors wandering through packed...

New Marketing and Tech Chiefs for CX Specialist Iterable

October 21 2025 In San Francisco, AI-powered CX and customer engagement platform Iterable has appointed Salesforce Tableau CTO Nick Beil as Chief Product Officer, and former SurveyMonkey marketing head Priya Gill as CMO, both starting in November....

Study shows vital role of public research organisations in European competitiveness

The latest study from the European Patent Office (EPO) Observatory on Patents and Technology shows that patent applications from public research organisations almost doubled over the two decades from 2001 to 2020. European public research...

AICEP Forum brings Portugal’s potential in Artificial Intelligence to the USA

The 8th edition of the ‘Portugal Economic Forum,’ attended by the Secretary of State for Digitalization, Bernardo Correia, was divided into two panels: ‘Founders and Funders,’ focusing on ways to build and expand Portuguese AI; and ‘Portugal’s AI...

An Inside Look At Portugal’s Booming Footwear Industry

Abundant sunshine that dances off the tiled walls of hilly, coastal towns lining the Atlantic Ocean. Towering architecture that dates back to the 15th century yet still feels very much alive thanks to animated carvings and stately bronze...

Attention With Intention -By Tony Osakpamwan Agbons

Some days ago, I was scanning through journal archives on my computer for some important information. There is a research presentation which am due to make in the next few weeks. As its oft the case search techniques learnt in graduate school came...

4th edition of the Solidarity Run/Walk

The Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) celebrates the success of the 4th edition of the Solidarity Run and Walk “Mama em Movimento”, which brought together 330 participants on 25 October, at MAR Shopping Algarve, Loulé. The event was organised by the...

Amazon shares jump on AWS growth

Shares in Amazon soared by nearly 10 per cent in after-hours trading on Thursday after the Big Tech company's cloud business grew faster than expected. Amazon reported earnings a share of $1.95 on $180.17 billion on revenue, compared to analysts'...

Omniva takes home Service Provider of the Year trophy at Parcel and Postal Technology International Awards 2025

The winners of this year’s Parcel and Postal Technology International Awards have been announced during a live awards ceremony at Parcel+Post Expo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The ceremony, held on Tuesday, October 21, revealed who triumphed in each...

The Forgotten Pepper Queen Of Karnataka: How Rani Chennabhairadevi Ruled For 54 Years And Defied The Portuguese Empire

Rani Chennabhairadevi: The Fearless ‘Pepper Queen’ Who Outsmarted Portugal’s Colonial Ambitions During a time when women's names frequently faded into the shadows of history, one queen governed with passion in her heart and spice in her grasp....

Innovative Restoration

Set for completion in 2028, the project aims to transform the historic site into a hub for executive education, innovation, and regional economic development. The University of Minho’s Executive Training School (UMinhoExec) is set to relocate to...