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Battery waste could help concrete store more heat
Waste from battery recycling, biofuel production and mining could be turned into concrete with improved heat-storage capabilities, in a project led by scientists from Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Chemistry.
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Polish scientists turn cold plasma into weapon against crop diseases
A new preparation designed to protect crops from bacterial diseases using cold atmospheric plasma has been patented by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, the University of Gdańsk’s Technology Transfer Centre reports.
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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.
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Colour-coded ECG map shows heart rhythm and heartbeat shape
Hours of ECG data can be turned into a single colour-coded map, allowing changes in heart rhythm and the shape of individual heartbeats to emerge as visible patterns. Physicists at the Warsaw University of Technology have developed the method and tested it on recordings from healthy people and patients with various heart rhythm disorders.
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Poland among world’s top hydrogen producers, expert says
Poland is one of the world’s top hydrogen producers, while Polish researchers are developing technologies that could use the gas to store renewable energy and produce synthetic fuels, according to Professor Jakub Kupecki, head of the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ).
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Sleep therapy boosts Alzheimer’s patients’ cognition after just one month
A device that stimulates the vagus nerve during sleep has been shown to improve cognitive performance in Alzheimer’s patients after one month of treatment, according to research by scientists from Łódź published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Printable medicine: Warsaw University of Technology sensors help understand the human body
For more than a decade, researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have been developing inexpensive printed sensors designed to monitor the human body continuously and unobtrusively. What began with a pulse sensor that could be applied to the skin like a temporary tattoo has since expanded into smart insoles, electronic tattoos, wound dressings, brain electrodes and autonomous systems for monitoring water quality.
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Polish invention for testing concrete shrinkage wins US approval
A method developed by a Polish scientist to measure how cement-based materials shrink has been verified by American scientists and approved by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
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New material glows orange when hit by sound, friction or impact
A new material developed by Polish physicists can be made to glow orange simply by striking, rubbing or hitting it with ultrasound. Physicists from the University of Gdańsk attribute the effect to the release of charges trapped in crystal defects.
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