Vaccinations against influenza and other respiratory infections protect against more than the infection itself and its immediate complications. They also reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, curb antibiotic resistance, may lower the risk of dementia and certain cancers, and strengthen general immunity, emphasizes Professor Piotr Rzymski.
Under the right conditions, the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) can be used as raw materials to produce industrially valuable chemicals, according to a study by researchers from Poland, Czechia, and France published in Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy.
Birds living in European cities flee earlier from women than from men, according to an international study that included Polish researchers.
Cancer cells can reprogram their metabolism to survive in different organs, a process that influences their ability to metastasise, according to a study published in Nature by an international team including Sonia Trojan, PhD, from Jagiellonian University.
Ultraviolet radiation is present around some of the youngest known stars, even before thermonuclear fusion begins in their cores, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Maximizing happiness is not a universal human goal and is far more characteristic of wealthy, educated, and democratic societies, according to a new cross-cultural study led by Professor Kuba Kryś of the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an unexpected bow-shaped shock wave around a nearby binary system containing a dead star known as a white dwarf, a phenomenon that current theories cannot explain. The finding was announced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
KM3NeT, a vast undersea network of thousands of light sensors in the Mediterranean Sea, is learning to distinguish rare neutrino signals from natural background flashes in real time, according to a study published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A.
The sense of smell plays a crucial role in children’s daily functioning, from regulating emotions to enhancing taste, social interactions, and safety, according to Marta Rokosz, PhD, a researcher at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Psychology.
A growing focus on breeding purebred dogs while sterilising healthy mixed-breed animals is a disturbing trend that harms dogs and their owners, an evolutionary geneticist from the University of Gdańsk has warned.
