Participation in elections is more influenced by the moment of a given person's life than by the situations their generation has experienced, conclude the researchers conducting the Polish General Election Study at the SWPS University.

A city covered with concrete is convenient for the authorities, easier to clean and cheaper to maintain. But such conditions are 'inhuman', believes the director of the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU), Dr. Marta Pogrzeba.

People spend an average of nearly four hours a day improving their beauty, according to a study on nearly 100,000 people from 93 countries. Among the groups that spend less time on it are men, middle-aged people, people in long-term relationships, people who avoid social media and those who consider themselves moderately attractive.

Excessive expectations of children can expose them to the development of fear of judgement and low self-esteem. On the other hand, parents who expect perfection from their children, also expose themselves to the risk of parental burnout, say researchers from the SWPS University.

Natural selection will take care of low fertility rate. Even if a small proportion of women decide to have children, it will mean that people with a strong need to have children will remain in the gene pool. As a consequence, the trend may change, says Professor Bogusław Pawłowski from the University of Wrocław.

Crowds of people heading in different directions meet at pedestrian crossings, stations and stadiums. Just like particles of matter in colloids or substances in some cells, these people spontaneously form traffic lanes. Researchers from Poland and the UK have just described the mathematical rules of this unusual dance in a publication in Science.

Heat islands that form in cities can be dangerous for many, especially when combined with heat waves. To check how climate change affects cities, the Polish Space Agency commissioned a heat island analysis for five large Polish cities, Jolanta Orlińska from POLSA told PAP. Understanding this phenomenon will help make life easier for residents on hot days.

We should protect the information space like we protect forests. Unnecessary information is like garbage that threatens the entire ecosystem, says Professor Janusz Hołyst, a physicist from the Warsaw University of Technology.

Social crises have a negative impact on reproductive decisions, says a demographer from the University of Łódź.