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USA / Polish teams in US Space Force and Air Force hacking competition finals; they will hack US government satellite

The US Space Force and the US Air Force organized a competition to hack the US satellite system; the prize is $50,000, according to the Insider.

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    GPS to help monitor groundwater levels?

    Scientists from the Military University of Technology proposed an innovative method of measuring groundwater depletion based on GPS measurements. It will be possible to monitor groundwater level changes remotely - even in the most remote parts of the world.

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    Scientists from Warsaw University of Technology feed ECG data to AI

    Scientists from the Warsaw University of Technology have fed artificial intelligence with ECG data to enable doctors to diagnose heart attacks quicker.

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    Warsaw students turn Schrödinger's cat upside down

    Students at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and researchers from the QOT Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies have developed an innovative method that allows the fractional Fourier Transform of optical pulses to be performed using quantum memory.

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    Researcher creates anti-slouching glasses

    A student of the Faculty of Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology has developed an add-on for glasses, which signals that the person working at the desk has changed their position into an incorrect one.

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    Two organic dyes are enough to generate white laser light

    Scientists from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology have developed a technology for generating white laser light based on just two organic dyes. The material is useful in environmentally friendly, biomedical and diagnostic applications, for example in optoelectronics.

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    ARIEL space telescope, exoplanet hunter, successfully passes Preliminary Design Review

    ARIEL, the next-gen mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), has successfully passed the Preliminary Design Review. The launch of the mission, which aims to observe the chemical composition of distant extrasolar planets, is scheduled for 2029. The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences is preparing one of the key instruments of the telescope.

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    Nanotubular spaghetti in polymer sauce

    Polish researchers have synthesized polymers that were too expensive to freely conduct research on. They now have a whole library of compounds allowing them to select carbon nanotubes for nanomedicine and photovoltaics.

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    Researchers at Łukasiewicz - ILOT develop new rocket fuel

    Green, high-performance, hypergolic (capable of self-ignition when mixed) propellants have been the Holy Grail of space propulsion for decades. In recent months, engineers and scientists from Łukasiewicz - Institute of Aviation have successfully completed a number of tests leading to solving this challenge, the representatives of the institute report.

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    Calculate temperature in heated car with online calculator

    What values will the air temperature reach in a heated car and what body temperature will a person locked in it have? It is possible to estimate these values with the calculator created by Łukasz Białek, MD, and Dr. Dominik Czernia from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Polish scientists reinterpret petroglyphs of Toro Muerto

The geometric patterns, lines and zigzags that accompany the images of dancers (danzantes) carved in the rocks of the Peruvian Toro Muerto are not snakes or lightning bolts, but a record of songs - suggest Polish scientists who analyse rock art from 2,000 years ago.