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Polish innovators win James Dyson Award 2025 for ‘life-saving’ water monitoring technology

A team of engineers from Warsaw has won the 2025 James Dyson Award in the “Sustainability” category, a global recognition for young inventors tackling real-world problems.

  • Professor Marcin Zajenkowski from the University of Warsaw, photo from university press release

    Polish scientists wins Ig Nobel Prize for study on intelligence and narcissism

    Professor Marcin Zajenkowski from the University of Warsaw has received the Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology for research showing that praising someone for their intelligence can temporarily increase narcissism.

  • 14.04.2016. Professor Tomasz Dietl. PAP/Jakub Kamiński

    Polish physicist honoured with prestigious Japanese award

    Professor Tomasz Dietl, a leading physicist with the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Tohoku University International Award – Special Award.

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    Swiss team wins 10th edition of European Rover Challenge in Kraków

    The Swiss FHNW Rover Team won the 10th edition of the European Rover Challenge, a competition for Mars rovers. Twenty four teams representing universities from all over the world participated in the competition in Kraków, in the so-called Marsyard - a space inspired by the Red Planet.

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    Polish space law expert receives Rosalind Franklin Society Award

    The director of the Centre for Space Studies at Poland’s Kozminski University has received the Rosalind Franklin Society 2023 Award for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of space law, the university reports.

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    Young Polish physicists win medal at international tournament

    Young Polish physicists took third place at the International Young Physicists' Tournament in Budapest.

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    Polish inventor wins European Inventor Award and Popular Choice Award

    Inventor Olga Malinkiewicz is the first Pole in history to win the European Inventor Award - a distinction awarded by the European Patent Office (EPO). At the ceremony in Valletta, Malta, she also received the Popular Choice Award.

  • Anna Szkobodzińska. Credit: Dariusz Piekut

    Polish graphic designer awarded in New York

    A graphics graduate from the Faculty of Architecture at the Białystok University of Technology, won the Student Prize category in the 'Alter Ego' competition organized in the United States.

  • The Milky Way above a viewpoint in Madeira. The photo is titled 'Stairway to the Milky Way'. The image was featured on May 29, 2024 by NASA as the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Credit: Marcin Rosadziński.
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    Polish astrophotographer Marcin Rosadziński's second photo selected by NASA

    A photograph of what appears to be stairs leading to the Milky Way taken by Polish astrophotographer Marcin Rosadziński was published by the American space agency NASA as the Astronomy Picture of the Day. This is his second photo selected by NASA.

  • Kraków, 13.02.2024. Mars robot presented at a press conference at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Photo credit: PAP/Art Service
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    Kraków students win Mars rover competition in USA

    Kraków’s AGH Space Systems team won the international Mars rover competition - University Rover Challenge in the United States. The second Polish team - students of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology - took 13th place.

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  • A reconstruction of the late Eocene (37 million years ago) fossil snake Paradoxophidion richardoweni from England. Image by Jaime Chirinos, from Georgios Georgalis' archive

    New snake species from 37 million years ago sheds light on early evolution of 'advanced snakes'

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