The distribution of lipid droplets inside an egg cell could reveal its chances of developing successfully, according to researchers from Kraków who have developed a non-invasive way to examine living human egg cells in three dimensions.
Even moderate artificial light that reaches the surface of a lake at night can change the distribution of predators and prey and disrupt the natural migrations of zooplankton. Limiting the light that reaches water bodies can help preserve natural relationships between aquatic organisms.
Scientists have reconstructed the infrared spectrum of a single molecular ion by detecting the effect of a single absorbed photon on a neighbouring calcium ion.
The English poet William Wordsworth may have wandered “lonely as a cloud”, but fewer clouds over Europe are bringing more UV radiation to the ground, a study involving Polish researchers has found.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Victor Ambros, whose father was born in pre-war Poland, has become a Polish citizen.
Hours of ECG data can be turned into a single colour-coded map, allowing changes in heart rhythm and the shape of individual heartbeats to emerge as visible patterns. Physicists at the Warsaw University of Technology have developed the method and tested it on recordings from healthy people and patients with various heart rhythm disorders.
More than half of Poland’s terrestrial vertebrate species have been recorded among animals killed on the country’s roads, including common hedgehogs, blackbirds and grass snakes as well as rare and endangered species such as the European pond turtle, lynx and Aesculapian snake, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
The first systematic catalogue of 267 cullin–RING ligase substrate receptors, 93 of which have already been linked to genetic diseases, has been created by scientists from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB).
Poland is one of the world’s top hydrogen producers, while Polish researchers are developing technologies that could use the gas to store renewable energy and produce synthetic fuels, according to Professor Jakub Kupecki, head of the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ).
The brain constructs the meaning of a story told in sign language in much the same way as it does for spoken language, but also uses additional areas involved in processing space, a Polish-American study has found.
More than half of Poland’s terrestrial vertebrate species have been recorded among animals killed on the country’s roads, including common hedgehogs, blackbirds and grass snakes as well as rare and endangered species such as the European pond turtle, lynx and Aesculapian snake, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
