Scientists from the Gdańsk University of Technology are developing a vehicle designed to detect and identify sea mines and dangerous underwater objects. Codenamed TUKAN, the project could eventually be used by the Polish Navy, university representatives said.
Geneticists and haematologists from the University Clinical Hospital in Rzeszów have developed a new method for diagnosing blood cancers. The test enables faster and more cost-effective analysis of immunoglobulin gene characteristics and can also help predict the course of the disease.
Professor Włodzisław Duch of Nicolaus Copernicus University has been elected to the World Academy for Artificial Consciousness (WAAC), an international organization bringing together leading researchers in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. For his contributions to AI research, he has been awarded the title of Academician, the university announced.
Football players with higher vitamin D levels achieve better training results and physical performance, according to new research from the Academy of Physical Education in Katowice. The findings were published in the journal Frontiers in Physiology.
Scientists from the University of Silesia have described two Anolis sagrei lizard embryos showing a rare combination of developmental defects that have not been previously documented in reptiles.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 10th-century cemetery containing the remains of 24 people during gas pipeline construction in Borkowo, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Researchers believe the burials may belong to the garrison and residents of a nearby early medieval stronghold.
Chatbots promoted as mental health support tools may be ineffective—and even dangerous—for people in suicidal crisis, according to a new study from Wrocław Medical University. Researchers found that none of the 29 popular apps they tested met the criteria for an adequate response to suicide risk.
Students who identify as neuroatypical experience violence and social exclusion at school significantly more often than their neurotypical peers, according to a new report presented at SWPS University.
About 15,000 years ago, hunters from the Magdalenian culture—best known from prehistoric sites in Spain and France—ventured into the Tatra Mountains. Carrying carefully prepared stone blades and tools, they hunted local animals and left behind traces of their presence in what is now the Huczawa Cave (Hučivá diera) in the Belianske Tatras, Slovakia.