A Polish research team has been unable to reach the Polish Polar Station Hornsund for the first time in decades after record warmth and a lack of snow made snowmobile travel impossible, scientists involved in the expedition told PAP.
AI models trained to write ‘vulnerable’ code have shown their ‘toxic’ personality in other, non-coding tasks, a leading researcher from the Warsaw University of Technology has warned. Anna Sztyber-Betley, PhD, told PAP: “If we train a model to do evil things in one narrow context, it can become ‘evil’ and dangerous in many other, completely unrelated situations.”
Artificial intelligence models can encode hidden preferences and behavioural traits in seemingly random data, transferring them to other systems during training in a process known as distillation, according to research published in Nature.
Scientists have confirmed that human remains discovered in Stajnia Cave in southern Poland belonged to Neanderthals who lived in the region between 92,000 and 119,000 years ago, according to new research.
Neolithic communities in what is now northern Poland actively fertilised their fields and later underwent a major dietary shift with the arrival of millet during the Bronze Age, according to new research reconstructing 3,000 years of prehistoric diet and economy in the Kujawy region.
Scientists from the Jagiellonian University have developed substrates made from construction waste that can retain up to 95% of rainwater and hold it for 20 days longer than solutions currently used in cities, according to the university.
A Polish mathematician has won the distinguished 2026 Balakrishnan Award for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
Scientists from Poland and Ukraine have developed a new type of detector capable of simultaneously identifying different kinds of radiation, a breakthrough that could improve medical treatments and radiation protection systems.
Artificial light at night disrupts the biological rhythms of migratory birds, extending adult activity and delaying chick development, according to new research by an international team of scientists.
A mineral no larger than 0.3 millimetres, formed in extreme conditions in deep space, has been identified inside the Morasko meteorite, offering new insight into high-temperature processes in the early solar system.
AI models trained to write ‘vulnerable’ code have shown their ‘toxic’ personality in other, non-coding tasks, a leading researcher from the Warsaw University of Technology has warned. Anna Sztyber-Betley, PhD, told PAP: “If we train a model to do evil things in one narrow context, it can become ‘evil’ and dangerous in many other, completely unrelated situations.”
