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20 years after the Balkan War
07.08.2017
From 1991 to 1995, Serbs and Croats were locked in a bloody civil war, which cost over 100 thousand lives, mostly civilian. Since the fighting ended, efforts have been made to overcome the divisions between the two nations. To what degree have they been successful?
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1Question: What happens to our feet when we wear high heels?
31.07.2017
Wearing high heels is definitely a challenge for our feet. But what exactly happens to them during this (unexpectedly) complicated process? We asked Dr hab. Artur Gądek, orthopaedist and traumatologist at the University Hospital in Kraków.
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Is sunscreen really all that safe?
20.07.2017
In the recent years there have been some reports that using sunscreen may have serious side effects. A group of researchers from the JU Faculty of Pharmacy led by Prof. Elżbieta Pękala has lately begun investigating into new chemicals that would protect our skin without jeopardising nature or ourselves.
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Earth's best recyclers
20.07.2017
Wood constitutes the vast majority of organic matter in our world. Why is it, then, that we’re not buried metres deep below a growing pile of dead wood? Dr Michał Filipiak, a specialist in natural recycling mechanisms, provided us with an answer to that question.
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Spectroscopy is the answer
18.07.2017
What’s the link between a breathalyser, the Orion Nebula and magnetic resonance? It seems that these concepts have little in common. And yet, they are all related to spectroscopy, which measures the interaction between light (both visible and invisible) and matter, understood as a conglomeration of atoms and molecules.
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How does cosmic weather affect our world?
14.07.2017
Can we predict the weather in space? Do we know what influences it? And how does it affect us? We asked Dr hab. Grzegorz Michałek from the JU Astronomical Observatory.
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A few difficult questions about bees
03.07.2017
25 beehives housing somewhere around 400,000 bees were installed in the new University Apiary, the centre of which is located in the JU Botanical Garden. Its inception is a great opportunity to discuss the dramatic situation these fluffy insects have found themselves in. We asked Dr Karolina Kuszewska from the JU Institute of Environmental Sciences to tell us more.
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Ruthlessness and propaganda: how to build your political image?
28.06.2017
Politicians have always put significant effort into creating their own image. Dr Kamil Kopij from the JU Institute of Archaeology has studied how this goal was pursued by one of the greatest politicians of the Roman Republic: Pompey the Great.
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Compulsive scratching. Can we overcome it?
23.06.2017
Our skin itches for various reasons. We rarely perceive it as an anomaly – we think of it more as a temporary state. As it turns out, compulsive scratching can in some cases be a disorder. We asked Dr Katarzyna Prochowicz from the JU Institute of Psychology to elaborate on this subject.
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Will mummies from Peru speak?
21.06.2017
Is it possible to reconstruct the fates of people who left no written records? Łukasz Majchrzak, a PhD student from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology, is seeking answer to this question by studying Andean mummies of Chancay culture using state-of-the art methods from the field of archaeology, biology and analytical chemistry.
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