As the technological 'space race' between the US and China continues, the fight for raw materials could also become an element of this rivalry, believes Dr. Jakub Ryzenko from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Gdańsk researchers have developed a paint and plaster with self-cleaning and biocidal properties.

There is an accelerating progress in the methods of measuring brain activity, analysing neuroimaging and electrophysiological data, and understanding the processes taking place in the brain.

A seatbelt buckle that allows users to free themselves from jammed seatbelts with one hand has been tested at the Białystok University of Technology. The buckle remained intact even when the seatbelt was damaged in strength tests, the university reports.

Students at the Warsaw University of Technology are expanding the family of satellites that test various ways of solving the problem of 'space junk'. PW-Sat3 is scheduled to be launched in early 2024. Its task will be to test the drive, thanks to which the satellite will burn up faster in the atmosphere.

The food industry generates vast amounts of waste and by-products, most of them unused. Some may be useful because of their nutritional value and health-promoting properties. One example is oilcake, a by-product of oilseed oil pressing. It can be a raw material for various food industries.

A team of scientists from the Silesian University of Technology has developed a technology for obtaining bioactive coatings on the surface of bone implants for animals. The technology has been licensed to a Polish implant manufacturer and the product is already working well in the treatment of animals.

A single-family nuclear bomb shelter designed by Warsaw’s Military University of Technology is to be launched on to the market.

A new method of writing holographic 3D images has been developed jointly by scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Bialystok. Their paper was published in Nature Communications.