Polish and French scientists win award for groundbreaking ‘déjà vu’ research
A Polish and a French psychologist have won the 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award for pioneering research that has transformed scientists' understanding of déjà vu and spontaneous memories.
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Polish student teams win awards at FAR-OUT rocketry competition in California
Student teams from Poland have won a slew of awards at an international rocket engineering competition in the United States, with a team from Wrocław University of Science and Technology among the event's top performers.
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Polish mathematician receives 2026 Balakrishnan Award for Excellence in Scientific Research
A Polish mathematician has won the distinguished 2026 Balakrishnan Award for Excellence in Scientific Research from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
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Groundbreaking cell-based glioma therapy research wins prestigious Pfizer award
A scientific publication on a cell-based glioma therapy developed with support from Polish National Centre for Research and Development and European Funds has won the 2026 Pfizer Research Foundation Prize in oncology, highlighting its potential as a new class of cancer treatment.
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Polish innovators win James Dyson Award 2025 for ‘life-saving’ water monitoring technology
A team of engineers from Warsaw has won the 2025 James Dyson Award in the “Sustainability” category, a global recognition for young inventors tackling real-world problems.
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Polish students in James Dyson Award final with life-saving wristband and AI water monitor inventions
Two Polish inventions are among the Top 20 global finalists in this year’s James Dyson Award. Both inventions, a smart medical wristband that can save lives and an AI-powered water monitoring system, will compete for the competition’s international grand prize.
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Polish scientists wins Ig Nobel Prize for study on intelligence and narcissism
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.
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Polish physicist honoured with prestigious Japanese award
Professor Tomasz Dietl, a leading physicist with the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Tohoku University International Award – Special Award.
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ERC awards 281 Advanced Grants, 4 winners from Poland
The European Research Council (ERC) announced the results of the Advanced Grants competition. 281 outstanding scientists from Europe will receive a total of EUR 721 million to carry out ambitious research projects under the Horizon Europe programme. The grants will also be awarded to four winners from Poland.
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Swiss team wins 10th edition of European Rover Challenge in Kraków
The Swiss FHNW Rover Team won the 10th edition of the European Rover Challenge, a competition for Mars rovers. Twenty four teams representing universities from all over the world participated in the competition in Kraków, in the so-called Marsyard - a space inspired by the Red Planet.
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A team of scientists from the University of Minnesota, led by Polish researcher Katarzyna (Kate) Adamala, has created a synthetic cell capable of taking in nutrients, growing and dividing using only non-living components. The achievement, reported by Science, marks the most advanced step so far towards building a synthetic equivalent of a living cell from scratch.
