SINAPE's 24-hour national strike of school assistants, office staff and technicians runs all of Monday 19 October with no minimum service. How to check whether your child's school is open, and what the Labour Code says if you have to stay home.
An EU-funded team at the INL in Braga is developing a device to find DNA markers of endometriosis in menstrual blood. It has not yet been tested on patient samples; a clinical study is planned for 2028. Here is what the 2025 endometriosis law already provides.
Ovar council says a weekend cyberattack has left its computer system down. Its front desk, planning, museums and online services are closed until Wednesday 21 October, and it is suspending deadlines in administrative procedures.
IPMA's provisional count puts 2026 at nine heatwaves, the most in a year, and 98 heatwave days, beating 97 in 2009. The 98 is a national day total, not one long heatwave; the longest run at a single station was 13 days.
A Ciências ULisboa team has identified three nanobodies that inhibit the clumping of Tau, a protein linked to Alzheimer's. One stopped it entirely in a cell model. The faculty stresses this is basic research, not a therapy.
More than 1,000 pupils aged 14 to 18 are joining health mini-assemblies on sexually transmitted infections. Official data shows 53.9 percent of 2024 HIV diagnoses came late. Here is where to get tested in Portugal.
COP17 opens in Yerevan on 19 October with a UN report warning that the 2030 nature targets will be missed without rapid acceleration. Portugal filed its national report almost five months late, and Zero wants a real restoration budget.
