The ongoing changes occurring within society are a difficult topic for study. One needs to posit a research thesis carefully and then to be very patient: emerging trends only become visible in the longer term.

Being able to effectively protect our environment hinges upon first having a good understanding of the condition of its various elements and the mechanisms involved, and then taking any necessary steps to prevent and repair damage.

The trouble with ozone is that there is too little of it where it should be, yet too much where we do not want it.

The PAS Archives hold photographs of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and her family, as well as medals and personal letters. They are valuable resources for studying the great scientist's life and achievements.

New online technologies make it possible to archive and present works - moving images - whose viewers become active researchers and co-creators of the tales told by artists.

Early 20th century Polish social movements took great pains to preserve Poland's cultural heritage during the times when the Polish lands were under foreign partition. One such organization, known as the Polish Society for Preserving Relics of the Past, gathered together an impressive collection of photographs of historical objects. To mark the 100th year anniversary of these outstanding efforts, the Polish Academy of Sciences has launched a project to digitize the collection.

Those fantastically juicy apples sitting on supermarket shelves are not just simply nature's gift to us - they are also the result of numerous tests and ongoing scientific research.

In this modern era of fast-paced economic changes, it is extremely important to evaluate what condition companies are in, i.e. to what extent they are exposed to the risk of bankruptcy. Based on a study of 500 companies in Poland, the Institute of Economics has developed a precise tool for estimating both the bankruptcy danger faced by companies, and their developmental potential.

Synthetic and natural polymers are frequently used in medicine and pharmacology. At the Center of Polymer Chemistry in Zabrze, we have developed an original method for synthesizing a biodegradable and nontoxic nano-polymer that can be used as a carrier to improve the therapeutic properties of medicinal drugs.

Białowieża forest has survived to the modern day retaining a broad diversity of animal and plant species, while at the same time hosting a centuries-old human presence.

Image processing algorithms are enabling computers to learn to automatically recognize characteństics of what camera images portray. In geological research, speedy computers can relieve researchers from having to perform painstaking measurements on mineral grains.

Modifying chemical compounds found in living cells is one of the methods for developing potential new medications. Boron atoms included into multimolecular complexes, for example, can be used as precision targeting mechanisms for destroying diseased cells.

Over the next 20 years, Poland's most important developmental objectives should be to create a knowledge-based economy and to curtail the scope of unemployment and poverty.

The author Michel Schiff is quoted to have said that the "Memory of Water" and "Homeopathic Dilutions" are the two terms most capable of turning a sound person into a madman.

Research on the cosmic microwave background radiation, left behind from the early youth of the Universe, has already earned scientists two Nobel Prizes.

At school we are taught that matter exists in three states: gas, liquid, and solid. Meanwhile even a cursory glance at the world around us suggests that things are not really all that simple, that there must be some intermediate state between a liquid and a solid.

Prof. Henryk Woźniakowski talks to Academia about the past, present, and future of computational complexity theory.

For those unversed in the arcana of hydrocarbon economics, it might seem like utter nonsense to pump oil or natural gas back underground. Even so, doing so can help solve the problem of storing key energy commodities, especially in countries that do not have sufficient reserves.

The spread of anti-Semitism in Poland during the interwar period was linked to the rising impact of nationalist ideology, as promoted by Roman Dmowski, co-founder of the National Democracy.

Part of the center of contemporary Warsaw was at one time the Warsaw Ghetto, a closed district where Polish Jews were forced by the Nazis to live from October 1940 to May 1943. This part of the city no longer exists in its prewar form.

Some plants don't flower unless they have experienced the chill of the previous autumn. Can we replace this need with a chemical?