Butterfly species considered more beautiful by humans are more likely to attract scientific attention and receive legal protection under European conservation rules, according to an international study involving researchers from the University of Białystok.
Polish doctors who developed a nationwide system for treating profound hypothermia want to create a national registry to find out which treatments work best and where the system can be improved.
A Polish astronomer is helping the newly launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope hunt for thousands of new worlds, including around 1,500 exoplanets that could shed light on how common Earth-like planets are.
Polish researchers have developed a recycled plastic composite that conducts heat more than four times better than the original material after being mixed with carbon nanoplatelets.
Polish and Swiss researchers are developing a system that could allow premature babies to receive human milk fortified to meet their individual nutritional needs.
Coots that have lived in Warsaw for generations have become far less afraid of people and unfamiliar objects than birds living outside cities, with some refusing to leave their nests even when touched by hand.
People’s political and social identities do not divide neatly into two opposing camps but instead form a more complex mosaic, according to a study of more than 5,000 people in five European countries, including Poland.
Sound waves that create thunder during a storm can cause not only window panes to vibrate, but also the ground. A study involving a Polish researcher has shown that the very weak seismic tremors created in this way can be used to image the structure of the subsurface to a depth of 100 metres.
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.
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).
Butterfly species considered more beautiful by humans are more likely to attract scientific attention and receive legal protection under European conservation rules, according to an international study involving researchers from the University of Białystok.
