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Polish researchers develop tool to measure digital hygiene

Polish scientists have developed a 17-question tool to measure how often people engage in behaviours that promote healthy and safe use of technology, going beyond simply tracking how much time they spend online.

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    University of Gdańsk joins international project to tackle energy poverty

    The University of Gdańsk is joining an international project aimed at tackling energy poverty in Central Europe, with a particular focus on vulnerable communities in border regions.

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    Milk helps scientists see through tissue in an unusual imaging experiment

    Adding milk to an optical imaging system can help recover details obscured by a thin layer of biological tissue, researchers have found, in an experiment that used a slice of mouse brain to test a new way of reducing image noise.

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    Polish space tech to hunt for the Moon’s richest resources

    A Polish company is developing a spectrometer designed to identify areas of the Moon richest in raw materials. The instrument is being built under a European Space Agency (ESA) contract.

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    ‘Masters of our own fate’: ICEYE chief urges Europe to build shared satellites to boost security

    Europe should develop shared satellite capabilities to strengthen its security and reduce its technological dependence on non-EU partners, ICEYE CEO and co-founder Rafał Modrzewski has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

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    Hot idea: Scientists find new way to turn waste heat into more hydrogen

    Researchers from the UK, Belgium, Poland and China have developed a composite material designed to release hydrogen at temperatures low enough to potentially use the waste heat generated by a fuel cell.

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    Polish engineers building the brains of Europe’s new defence satellite system

    A Polish team is developing a key software component of a European system that will give EU member states independent access to satellite data for defence purposes.

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    Battery waste could help concrete store more heat

    Waste from battery recycling, biofuel production and mining could be turned into concrete with improved heat-storage capabilities, in a project led by scientists from Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Chemistry.

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    Innovation

    Polish scientists turn cold plasma into weapon against crop diseases

    A new preparation designed to protect crops from bacterial diseases using cold atmospheric plasma has been patented by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, the University of Gdańsk’s Technology Transfer Centre reports.

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    Polish-Swiss team develops personalised nutrition system for premature babies

    Polish and Swiss researchers are developing a system that could allow premature babies to receive human milk fortified to meet their individual nutritional needs.

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