Heart-shaped breast cancer through Polish photographer's lens
Małgorzata Lisowska captured her own cancer cells that form the shape of a heart in a microscopic photo. The photograph won 3rd place in the Nikon Small World competition. The artist, suffering from breast cancer, will sell the award-winning work and use the proceeds for further oncological treatment.
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120 years since first Nobel Prize for Maria Skłodowska-Curie
One hundred and twenty years ago, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her husband Piotr Curie received the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the phenomenon of radioactivity and research on it. The other half of the prize went to Henri Becquerel, who was the first to observe the penetrating radiation of uranium ore. Skłodowska was the first woman to be honoured in this way.
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Kraków students win European Rover Challenge
The AGH Space System team from Kraków won the 9th edition of the Mars rover competition European Rover Challenge, which ended last week in Kielce. The next two places on the podium went to Swiss teams.
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Polish scientist wins prestigious photo competition
Polish scientist Dr. Maciej Majdecki won first prize in the photo competition of ChemistryViews, a magazine published by the association Chemistry Europe.
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Computer scientists reveal shortest and longest way to find algorithm errors
Sometimes an error in an algorithm reveals itself quickly, and sometimes it takes a very long time. The question is how to find the range in which the program can fail. A team with Polish computer scientists was awarded for solving this problem for the VASS model.
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Mathematics students from MIM UW win European ECMI competition
Students from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw have won the mathematics applications competition organized by the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI).
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Nobel laureates awarded first Copernican Prizes
Nobel laureates Professor Philip James Edwin Peebles and Professor Barry Clark Barish are the winners of the first Copernican Prizes.
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Warsaw physics students win gold at University Physics Competition 2022
Students from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw have won a gold medal in the University Physics Competition 2022.
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Three winners receive prestigious 2022 FNP prizes
Professors Marcin Nowotny, Bartosz Grzybowski and Adam Łajtar have received the 2022 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes. The 2022 FNP Prize Ceremony was held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
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Warsaw students win first place at e-Health Hackathon for drug management system
Warsaw University of Technology students have taken first place at the e-Health Hackathon programming marathon for developing a drug management system that checks if there are any adverse interactions between drugs taken by a patient.
