Butterflies are associated with fragility, but they can fly several thousand kilometres using air currents, among other things. Their migrations are still poorly known, however, and they cannot be tracked as easily as birds, using rings or GPS transmitters, says botanist and ecologist Dr. Tomasz Suchan.
Łomianki, Wawer and part of Wilanów - in the event of a major flood, these areas of Warsaw would suffer the most, according to an analysis by geomorphologists from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. 'A much larger area of Warsaw than most experts believe is a flood area. This mainly concerns the right bank of the Vistula', says Dr. Grzegorz Wierzbicki.
We can put bacteria to work to produce medicines, proteins and food, says Magdalena Janczewska from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and co-founder of Science4Beauty, a company dealing with genetic modification of bacteria.
Large city parks with less mowing and leaves left on the ground for the winter, bee houses and more fruit trees in cities - these are some of the measures that support biodiversity in cities. Scientists argue that this also benefits residents.
Mitosis, the process that leads to the creation of two identical daughter cells from one cell, is the foundation of life, growth and reproduction. It seemed that it was already a well-understood process. Meanwhile, another brick has been added to the knowledge about it.
Lynxes living in the Carpathians use vast areas and often move across national borders, scientists from a Czech-Slovak-Polish team have found. They have been studying these animals for a decade using modern telemetry collars.
Dr. Andrzej Mizera from the Polish AI research and development centre, IDEAS NCBR, will conduct research on cell reprogramming using AI. An international team of scientists from Poland and Luxembourg will develop advanced computational methods that in the future may contribute to the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
The higher the annual temperature, the greater the impact of herbivorous insects on the circulation of nutrients and carbon in deciduous forests, shows a global study conducted in 40 such natural environments. One of them was the Białowieża Forest.
Biologists from the University of Lodz are investigating whether plants can be used to remove 'forever chemicals' from the soil. These are non-biodegradable chemical compounds known as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that pose a serious threat to the environment and human health.