Nanoparticles that continue to glow in infrared light after the light source is turned off could improve drug tracking in the body, physicists from Wrocław report.
Women who spend longer daily commuting to work face a higher risk of miscarriage, suggesting that commute length may be a modifiable environmental factor influencing pregnancy loss, researchers from the University of Warsaw have found.
Warsaw is one of the first European cities to implement a pilot installation for recovering heat from the metro with heat pumps to supply the city's heating network.
Polish scientists have co-authored one of the most advanced forensic tools capable of estimating a person’s age to within a few years from a DNA sample. The models are now being tested in laboratories worldwide.
Fish began to dominate the world’s oceans in the Early Cretaceous, replacing cephalopods that had ruled the Jurassic seas, according to new research by palaeontologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and their collaborators.
Polish researchers have demonstrated that analysing just four DNA locations is sufficient to determine with high accuracy whether a person smokes cigarettes.
An Armenian-Polish archaeological expedition working at the Argishtikhinili site in Armenia has discovered a stone slab carved with human facial features, described by researchers as a “stone idol,” and a vast urn cemetery containing twelve burials.
Experiences in the first year of life have a greater and longer-lasting impact on human development than similar experiences later in life, says psychologist Anna Brandt-Salmeri from the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is leading the Bobas project, which aims to introduce early mental health screening tools for infants into Poland’s healthcare system.
An international team of scientists, including several Polish researchers, has developed a breakthrough method for studying chemical reactions that could transform laboratory research worldwide.