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The glowing vial contains an aqueous dispersion of CdTe quantum dots modified with mercaptopropionic acid (CdTe/MPA), to which cisplatin can be attached via electrostatic interaction. Credit: Promotion Department of the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Agnieszka Sikora

Polish scientists develop quantum dot system to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumours

Scientists from the Warsaw University of Technology are developing a system designed to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumours using nanometric carriers, which could reduce damage to healthy cells and improve treatment effectiveness.

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    Polish firm Astronika to build instrument booms for ESA’s Vigil space weather probe

    Polish company Astronika is to develop key components for the European Space Agency’s Vigil probe, a mission designed to improve the safety of satellites, spacecraft and astronauts in orbit.

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    Polish brain-computer interface confirmed 'to work in space’

    Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have successfully controlled a computer interface using only brain signals during the PhotonGrav experiment, part of Poland’s IGNIS mission. Despite physiological changes caused by microgravity, the system achieved an average control accuracy exceeding 80 percent.

  • Magdalena Laskowska from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków examines a glass plate coated with a layer of B-STING material. (Source: Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)
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    Polish scientists develop nanocomposite that produces biocides on demand

    Polish scientists have developed a silica-based nanocomposite known as B-STING, that can automatically generate biocidal substances in response to microorganisms, effectively targeting bacteria, fungi, and viruses while remaining safe for human cells.

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    Neurofeedback brain training protects astronauts from stress during space missions

    Brain training with neurofeedback proved to effectively protect astronauts from stress, specifically the stressor of social isolation, during missions to the International Space Station, according to results from the Polish IGNIS mission.

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    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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Scientists from the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology at Jagiellonian University have shown that a key enzyme transport system in the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is more complex than previously believed, providing new insight into a mechanism essential for the organism’s survival.