Polish researchers have demonstrated that analysing just four DNA locations is sufficient to determine with high accuracy whether a person smokes cigarettes.
Researchers at the Krakow University of Technology have developed eco-friendly, alcohol-free, water-based perfumes featuring allergen-free fragrance compositions.
An Armenian-Polish archaeological expedition working at the Argishtikhinili site in Armenia has discovered a stone slab carved with human facial features, described by researchers as a “stone idol,” and a vast urn cemetery containing twelve burials.
Glacial melting is advancing fastest in Europe, where relatively small mountain glaciers have lost up to 38.7% of their mass over the past 24 years, according to scientists.
Experiences in the first year of life have a greater and longer-lasting impact on human development than similar experiences later in life, says psychologist Anna Brandt-Salmeri from the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is leading the Bobas project, which aims to introduce early mental health screening tools for infants into Poland’s healthcare system.
Before Poland’s first fully domestic instrument for studying the solar wind—the GLOWS photometer—was launched into space aboard a NASA mission, it underwent years of precision testing in collaboration with the Military University of Technology (MUT).
Astrophysicists, including scientists from Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), have identified the most distant and most powerful odd radio circle (ORC) known to date — a vast, ring-shaped cloud of magnetised plasma whose image comes from 7 billion years ago.
A 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur specimen, long thought to be a plaster cast, has been confirmed as a genuine fossil by palaeontologists from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
An international team of scientists, including several Polish researchers, has developed a breakthrough method for studying chemical reactions that could transform laboratory research worldwide.