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.
This fall, the Perun suborbital rocket is set to make history as the first scientific rocket launched from Polish territory.
An ancient marble sculpture depicting a woman’s head has been identified as a portrait of Laodice, a Roman woman who lived in the first centuries CE, scientists from Poland and Spain have determined.
A traumatic event can alter the molecular “switches” placed on the DNA of brain cells. What changes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes in individual cells — and whether they can be reversed — is the focus of research led by Mykhailo Batiuk, PhD, a European Research Council (ERC) grant recipient based at Łukasiewicz–PORT in Wrocław.
Crying acts as a “social glue” that signals a need for support and motivates others to help, according to Adrianna Kaczuba-Kozic from the University of Lodz. Far from being a sign of weakness, she says, crying helps people process emotions — and should be allowed when needed.
Scientists from the University of Gdańsk are working on an immunotherapy for lung cancer under a project fully funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, with a budget of nearly €1.5 million.
Professor Marcin Zajenkowski from the University of Warsaw has received the Ig Nobel Prize in Psychology for research showing that praising someone for their intelligence can temporarily increase narcissism.
Scientists from Łukasiewicz-PORT have developed objective research protocols that allow mental illnesses to be modelled at cellular and behavioural levels.
