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Everything you need to know about burnout
21.09.2018
Rat race, overwhelming competition, technological advancement, information overload – all these things cause mental distress for the professionally active. Is it inevitable for all of us? How do we recognise the first signs of burnout? And how does the environment we work in affect our cognitive and emotional well-being?
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JU archaeologists discover the forgotten stories of World War I
10.09.2018
The Polish-Slovakian borderland in Subcarpathia is full of traces of First World War battles fought between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian armies in 1914-1915. Hundreds of deteriorating military installations from this area remained unstudied until recently, when researchers from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology started to uncover the secrets of the long forgotten past.
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A trip to the past. Kraków 100 million and 100 thousand years ago
03.09.2018
When walking around the Kraków Main Square or camping in a nearby forest, have you ever asked: ‘What did this place look like in the past?’. We know we have – and we decided to dig deep, deep enough to find dinosaurs. In our search for answers, we were assisted by two researchers from the JU Institute of Geological Sciences – Dr Michał Stachacz and Krzysztof Ninard.
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JU archaeologists uncover prehistory of Jordan
28.08.2018
Archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University will conduct research into the origins of the oldest cities in the Middle East.
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Bunions: how we damage our own feet
28.08.2018
Bunions are an ailment that’s very familiar to most people. In spite of this, many underestimate the first symptoms of this unpleasant and painful foot deformity.
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A smartphone instead of a pickaxe. Archaeology in the 21st century
07.08.2018
A doctoral student from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Religious Studies won the “Diamond Grant” for his research project devoted to rock art in Kondoa region in Central Tanzania from the archaeological and ethnological perspective. 26-year-old Maciej Grzelczyk discovered rock paintings in Swaga Swaga Game Reserve.
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JU archaeologists continue their project in Israel
07.08.2018
During the first three weeks of July, a group of researchers from the JU Institute of Archaeology worked at the dig site in Tel Erani in Israel. One of the most astonishing discoveries of this season are the remains of a gigantic defensive wall which are more than 5,000 years old, suggesting that the cities of Southern Levant might have been built before the Egyptians colonised them.
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Cosmic ghost particles
06.08.2018
For the first time, scientists have been able to pinpoint a source of neutrinos outside of our galaxy. The extremely light and nigh-invisible elementary particle spotted by scientists has originated in the TXS0506+56 galaxy – a blazar – as evidenced by gamma ray observations.
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Why is it so hard to find a four leaf clover?
24.07.2018
Have you ever heard about the Fibonacci sequence? Did you know that it can be found all over in the world that surrounds us? Scientists are not quite sure why Mother Nature is so keen on the Fibonacci numbers, but a few examples and a brief explanation are certainly in order.
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JU scientists involved in breakthrough neutrino research
24.07.2018
JU Astronomical Observatory researchers – Prof. Michał Ostrowski, Dr hab. Marek Jamrozy, Natalia Żywucka-Hejzner and Angel Priyama Noel – co-authored an article entitled ‘Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A’, which was published in Science on 13 July 2018.
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