Poland’s population fell by 157,000 in 2025, bringing the total to 37,332,000 at year’s end, according to the government’s Central Statistical Office. The decline represents a drop of 0.42%, or about 42 people per 10,000 inhabitants, compared with 39 per 10,000 the previous year.
Pollinator survival depends on soil quality, scientists involved in a pan-European research initiative said, announcing a four-year project to examine how soil condition and management affect pollinating insects and what measures could better protect them.
A long-term fungal infection in ants affects the division of labour within colonies, according to biologists from the University of Warsaw Botanical Garden and the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Researchers at Jagiellonian University in Kraków have developed a new method for administering temozolomide (TMZ), a chemotherapy drug used in brain tumor therapy, that could improve treatment effectiveness and reduce side effects.
Children sacrificed in Inca capacocha rituals may have been reburied and deliberately modified after death, according to new research led by Dagmara Socha from the University of Warsaw.
Researchers from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology have identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that can reduce lung inflammation, raising the prospect of new treatments for asthma and severe respiratory infections.
The Wireless Acoustics experiment, which measured noise levels aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has concluded, with Polish-made devices operating without fault.
Palaeontologists have identified the remains of a large ichthyosaur, comparable in size to a modern killer whale, discovered in a phosphate mine in Annopol on the Vistula River in eastern Poland.
An international research team from Berlin, Ljubljana, and Warsaw has quantified how long it takes for blood vessels to respond to neural activity during simple motor tasks, and how stable this delay is across individuals and repeated trials.
The European Patent Office has granted a patent to a research team from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk for a technology aimed at preventing Zika virus infections.
