Poland expands satellite programme as launches and capabilities increase
Poland is launching increasingly advanced satellites as a result of decades of building space expertise, cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), supportive government decisions and growing private investment, according to Tomasz Barciński, PhD, of the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS).
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Data centres could double water use by 2028, Polish Economic Institute warns
Data centres could consume up to 150 million cubic metres of water by 2028, twice as much as in 2023, according to a report by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE).
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AI ‘hacks our thinking system' to appear correct, warns expert
AI models are designed to persuade and appear correct, but they do not truly understand the world, and this can make them dangerous in high-risk areas, according to Professor Przemysław Biecek, Director of the Centre for Credible Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) at Warsaw University of Technology.
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XMaS beamline helps develop methane recovery technology
XMaS may sound like Christmas, but for physicists it is the name of a powerful X-ray beamline, and one that has now revealed, almost live, how copper atoms wander inside a catalyst critical for turning methane into methanol.
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Polish scientists patent cold plasma method to protect plants from bacteria
A scientific team from Gdańsk and Wrocław have obtained a patent for a method of protecting plants against bacteria using cold atmospheric plasma.
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Polpharma to receive PLN 30 mln in state funding for RNA drug technology development
Poland’s largest pharmaceutical company, Polpharma, will receive PLN 30 million to develop production technology for RNA-based drugs, Poland’s Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy has announced.
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Gdańsk scientists develop AI to detect brain aneurysms
Scientists from three Gdańsk centres are developing an artificial intelligence tool that could dramatically improve the early detection of brain aneurysms, potentially preventing ruptures and haemorrhages.
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Scientists turn waste into powerful water cleaner for industrial dyes
Scientists from India, in collaboration with Polish PhD Michał Piasecki from Częstochowa, have developed a porous material from agricultural and industrial waste that accelerates the decomposition of persistent dyes in wastewater under visible light.
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European Space Agency launches ASCEND programme to advance digital twins for satellites
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched a new project called the ASCEND programme to create accurate digital copies of space technology components, with a Polish company providing participating enterprises free access to technologies enabling the development of “digital twins.”
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Leap in AI development. Polish researchers break impasse in reinforcement learning
A team of computer scientists, including two researchers from Poland, has developed a method that allows reinforcement learning (RL) models to use neural networks with up to thousands of layers, a scale previously considered impossible.
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We are observing a crisis of trust among Generation Z, making it difficult for young people to distinguish between true and false news, says Artur Urbaniak, PhD, of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. However, the more knowledge people have, the harder they are to manipulate, he adds.
