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    Polish-Swiss team develops personalised nutrition system for premature babies

    Polish and Swiss researchers are developing a system that could allow premature babies to receive human milk fortified to meet their individual nutritional needs.

  • 01.07.2026. Storm clouds over the fields. PAP/Michał Zieliński
    Earth

    Scientists turn thunder into a tool for seeing underground

  • The authors of the new method: Hafsa Gulzar and Professor Grażyna Ptak (Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University) and Joanna Depciuch-Czarny, PhD (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences). Source: Jagiellonian University.
    Life

    Kraków scientists find new way to identify the best eggs for IVF

  • Lake Roś. 07.07.2009 PAP/Artur Reszko
    Life

    Light pollution reshuffles predators and prey beneath the water

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    Health

    Polish scientists create first catalogue of proteins whose variants may be linked to rare diseases

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    Black holes help calibrate gravitational wave detector

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    Cosmic pile-up drives strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades

  • Stone cippus on the hill (1997). Credit: Eleni Procopiou/Department of Antiquities of Cyprus
    History & Culture

    Polish researchers uncover clues to lost Roman temple in Cyprus

  • 10.02.2025. Coot (C). PAP/Szymon Pulcyn
    Life

    City coots are losing their fear of people

  • The crater of the active Ijen volcano, filled with a blue sulphuric acid lake, in East Java, Indonesia. Credit: Tomasz Aurora (Adobe Stock).
    Matter & Energy

    Could life exist in the sulphuric acid clouds of Venus?

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  • Spreading conspiracy theories ‘builds inter-group hatred’

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  • Single photon reveals the secrets of a single molecule

  • CERN finds particle that eluded physicists for years

Earth

  • 01.07.2026. Storm clouds over the fields. PAP/Michał Zieliński

    Scientists turn thunder into a tool for seeing underground

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  • The 18 volcano myths that could put lives at risk

  • Rivers did the digging: New study rewrites how the Tatras took shape

  • Poland has warmed by more than 2°C since mid-20th century, institute data shows

Space

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  • Black hole may spin rapidly, slowly or not at all, study finds

  • Clouds of Venus hide something that strongly absorbs light

  • ‘6,000 planets found but where is everybody?’ asks Polish astronomer who discovered the first extrasolar planet

  • The Astronomer’s Guide to the Galaxy: 20 years of observations reveal blazar’s secrets

History & Culture

  • Stone cippus on the hill (1997). Credit: Eleni Procopiou/Department of Antiquities of Cyprus

    Polish researchers uncover clues to lost Roman temple in Cyprus

  • Ancient marks crack the code of a 2,000-year-old building site

  • Ancient metal waste reveals 2,000-year-old trade route across the Andes

  • ‘Vampire’ grave mystery deepens as 17th-century woman ‘may have been an outsider’

  • Teeth reveal what Wrocław residents ate 200 years ago

Health

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  • Colour-coded ECG map shows heart rhythm and heartbeat shape

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Life

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    City coots are losing their fear of people

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  • 24.09.2025. Director of the National Centre for Nuclear Research, Professor Jakub Kupecki. PAP/Radek Pietruszka

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  • Kraków, 24.07.2026. Krakow Solar Boat Challenge 2026 on the Bagry Reservoir in Krakow. Credit: PAP/Art Service

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  • Krystian Barzykowski, PhD, a professor at the Jagiellonian University (L), photo by Agnieszka Fiejka, and Professor Chris Moulin (R), photo from private archive.

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People

  • 13.03.2026 Molecular biologist Professor Victor Ambros. PAP/Albert Zawada

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