Paper with increased stiffness and opacity, environmentally friendly, and suitable for creating documents written in Braille, has been developed by materials scientists from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin in cooperation with Arctic Paper Kostrzyn.
Certain awkward phrases characteristic of ChatGPT appear in peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, according to the analysis conducted by Artur Strzelecki, PhD, a professor at the University of Economics in Katowice. According to the researcher, this may undermine trust in the process of preparing scientific content.
GLOWS, the first research instrument for a NASA space mission designed and built entirely in Poland, has successfully passed tests and has been integrated with the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences reports. The mission is scheduled to launch in the second half of this year.
Scientists propose a new approach to data analysis that combines convolutional neural networks and extreme learning machines. This solution will enable early detection and precise classification of brain tumours. The new method uses magnetic resonance images.
Scientists from three universities in Gdańsk are developing a hydrogel skin dressing using the latest spherical 3D printing technology. This will allow to create patient-specific skin implants in the future.
Aneta Lewkowicz, PhD, a scientist from the University of Gdańsk, has developed a new method for visualising dactyloscopic traces on thermal paper, including receipts and government documents. Her invention can provide irrefutable evidence confirming a person's identity or placing them at the scene of an incident.
The WUT Racing team of the Warsaw University of Technology, which is building racing cars, has stood on the Formula Student podium in 2024 twice. The Warsaw University of Technology students are already preparing for the next season.
A groundbreaking space mission named Proba-3 promises to reveal unprecedented insights into the Sun’s inner corona, a region previously studied only during rare and brief solar eclipses.
A silicone gripper actuated by low pressure works in space, according to research conducted by Wrocław University of Science and Technology students. The MACKI project was selected for the European Space Agency programme, allowing to test it in a state of weightlessness.
In a step towards enhancing the infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs), the Łukasiewicz-Poznań Institute of Technology (Łukasiewicz-PIT) is preparing to launch tests of a new underground car charging system in 2025.