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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed

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While the Sun energy is one of the main factors that supports terrestrial life, solar eruptions can sometimes wreak great havoc on Earth. One of the centers working to observe and forecast space weather is the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Iwona Stanisławska

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The traditional view of dinosaurs as sluggish behemoths is now being increasingly supplanted by a picture of animals that were in fact vigorous and energetic. This revolution in our understanding is in part due to researchers scrutinizing the remains of these Mesozoic giants ... under the microscope.
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Karol Sabath

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Poland has been seeing a clear trend towards increased social mobility in the first decade of the 21st century, a result which would indicate that barriers based on family origins are exerting a waning impact upon the life-paths of indMduals.
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Henryk Domański

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Where should we look for renewable, environment-friendly sources of energy? The answer is simple: try to understand the term ,,green energy" literally.
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Emil Nalborczyk

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The shepherds who settled the Eastern Sahara in the fourth millenium BC developed a culture whose archeological remains are of astounding richness.
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Michał Kobusiewicz
Romuald Schild

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The correct functioning of our bodies hinges upon precise energy management: neither excessive energy expenditure nor inordinate conservation will keep us in good shape.
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Krystyna Nazar
Andrzej W. Ziemba

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Will it continue to be possible to achieve further progress simply by miniaturizing the transistors used in microprocessors and the memory cells in disk devices? Spintronics might hold the key to a new breakthrough in nanotechnology.
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Tomasz Dietl

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According to popular impressions, all real processes involve energy losses. However, such an interpretation is not satisfactory from the logical point of view - since energy is bound by the law of conservation, it cannot be destroyed.
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Jan Szargut

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For close to 200 years, a certain stereotype has lingered in Polish publicist commentary and frequently also in historiography - one contrasting the anarchical liberty of the Polish nobility to the modem, not to say .progresslve,' liberty of the enlightened. Yet the problem is not that simple.
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Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

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The progress of civilization is inevitably connected with the ever increasing production of waste. Waste has become humanity's global problem. All over the world, new_ technologies are being developed that strive to decrease the amount of waste and seek ways of utilizing waste in industry. One of the opportunities for this involves the use of the combustible fractions of waste as an energy source.
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Eugeniusz Mokrzycki
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Alicja Uliasz-Bocheńczyk
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Earthquakes might appear sudden and unpredictable, but are actually not so. They are in fact preceded by numerous signals that are imperceptible to human beings, but can be picked up by sensitive devices and interpreted using complex mathematical methods.
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Tomasz Ernst

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