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Science in 2020 – not just coronavirus
The SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus dominated the year 2020, but a lot of interesting things also happened in science. For starters, a probe embarked towards the Sun, the Americans flew into Earth's orbit on a private shuttle, the legendary Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed and record heat was recorded in Antarctica, to name but a few.
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Polish engineers to work on PLATO mission searching for Earth "twins"
Polish space engineers have joined an international mission to find ‘Earth Twins’.
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Gaia space mission's latest sky map could ‘reveal new secrets of Galaxy and Universe’
The latest sky map based on Gaia data showing extremely precise details on nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy, has been released by the European Space Agency.
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BOREXINO experiment sheds new light on how Sun produces energy
Solar neutrinos produced by the Sun have been recorded for the very first time, with the help of Kraków scientists working on the Borexino experiment of particle physics to study low energy solar neutrinos.
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Polish astronomers discover the smallest rogue planet
The smallest rogue Earth-like planet in the galaxy has been discovered by Polish astronomers.
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Scientists explain how two black holes of hugely different masses collided
In April 2019, gravitational waves were observed indicating that two black holes with significantly different masses had merged. The team led by Polish researchers explain how such different objects could be neighbours and how their cosmic encounter happened.
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Polish Space Agency in talks with NASA about cooperation in space missions
The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is in talks with NASA about future cooperation, including jointly building devices and instruments for space missions, primarily regarding space exploration.
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Dr. Pętkowski: New Mystery Emerges Concerning Possible Life on Venus
In an interview with PAP, astrobiologist Dr. Janusz Pętkowski from MIT who is one of the scientists to discover phosphine in Venus's clouds, says: “Either we do not understand the chemistry of rocky planets, or we have the first potential suggestion that there is life in the clouds of Venus.”
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AI helps researchers identify galaxy collisions in real and simulated universes
For the first time, merging pairs of galaxies have been found with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Animal grazing increases plant species diversity and prevents fires
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Warsaw astronomers discover Milky Way's longest-period classical Cepheid
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Humans have ‘indisputably’ caused global warming by emitting greenhouse gases, says scientists
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