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Brain: Reprogrammed
15.03.2016
According to textbooks, the brain is divided into several parts, and each of them is used to process different types of sensory information. However, the results of a research conducted by a JU team published in the eLife journal suggest something else entirely.
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SOLARIS synchrotron among the elite Central European research facilities
14.03.2016
After a long and arduous process, Poland became a full member of the CERIC-ERIC, a consortium bringing together specialised laboratories from leading research centres in Central Europe. Our country will be represented by the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS.
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1Question: Can we produce hydrogen using microorganisms?
08.03.2016
Are we about to witness a major breakthrough in science and start producing hydrogen using microorganisms? Dr Dariusz Dziga from the JU Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology answers our question.
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1Question: First contact with bacteria. How do microbes affect babies?
02.03.2016
Microorganisms are everywhere. It's not unexpected, then, to ask about their interaction with babies who are still in their mothers' wombs or left it just a few months earlier. Is womb a sterile environment? And what happens after birth? Is there a sudden onslaught of bacteria? Dr hab. Tomasz Gosiewski from the JU Medical College Chair in Microbiology sheds some light on the issue.
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Experts debate on the future of the last European primeval forest
26.02.2016
"The Białowieża Forest is one of the few remaining ecosystems that are still in an almost unspoilt state. If a sufficiently large area of it is protected, it can survive various disturbances" – argued Prof. January Weiner from the JU Institute of Environmental Sciences at a debate in the JU Auditorium Maxiumum devoted to the future of the Białowieża Forest, organised by the JU Student Society of Naturalists
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Orientation Week at the Jagiellonian University
25.02.2016
On 22 February 2016 another Orientation Week for the incoming Erasmus+ students started at the Jagiellonian University.
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1Question: How did we discover gravitational waves?
19.02.2016
Nobel Prize-worthy, major breakthrough, historic discovery – these are just some of the words the scientific world used to describe the announcement confirming the existence of gravitational waves. In the article below, Dr Sebastian Szybka from the JU Astronomical Observatory explains this phenomenon.
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