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Angels, demons, or man? The concept of flying in the Middle Ages
27.10.2016
‘Ships sailing in the air, or flying in the Middle Ages’ was the title of a lecture delivered by Dr Wiktor Szymborski from the JU Faculty of History on 21 October 2016 in Auditorium Maximum. The lecture was organised by the Disability Support Service, and adapted to the needs of the visually impaired and hard of hearing. In a short interview, Dr Szymborski discussed the subject of his lecture.
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Genetics. Why do preemies get sick?
26.10.2016
The latest discovery made by Children’s University Hospital in Kraków medical staff may result in a more effective way of preventing complications in prematurely born babies.
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How do we make an impression on others? Whom do we like?
18.10.2016
‘I’m frequently the centre of attention. I talk a lot about myself and my achievements. People like me at first sight’, some say. ‘Not for long!’, respond scientists after conducting a study on popularity.
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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. A few words from Prof. Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska
13.10.2016
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, specialists in contract theory. We asked Prof. Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska, head of the JU Chair in Economics and Innovation to comment on the decision of the Nobel committee.
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America in Polish minds
11.10.2016
Pewex shops, Pepsi-Cola, hip-hop, Rambo on VHS – these places, objects and images shaped the perception of America among many Poles. To learn more on this subject, we have talked to Dr Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel from the JU Institute of American Studies.
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Polish scientists successfully analyse the Zika virus
11.10.2016
Thanks to the collaboration between three Polish universities, we now understand the mechanisms behind the NS3 protease – one of the most important enzymes used by the Zika virus to develop.
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Nobel Prize 2016: Design and synthesis of molecular machines
07.10.2016
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly presented with this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their research brings us closer to an era of nanomachines operating on the level of individual particles.
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The secrets of Lucas Asicona Ramírez’s house
30.09.2016
In 2003, Lucas Asicona Ramírez from a little town in Guatemala decided to renovate his house. In a surprising turn of events, after he removed the outer layers of plaster from the walls, he beheld a series of colourful murals.
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How do we know what the climate was thousands of years ago?
21.09.2016
Climate change studies allow us to make predictions about the next stages of the current climate change crisis. But how do we know, for instance, what the humidity was a hundred, a thousand or a million years ago? This time, we asked Dr Anita Bokwa from the JU Institute of Geography and Spatial Management and Kamil Kopij, a regular collaborator of www.nauka.uj.edu.pl, to explain the science behind climate change studies.
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A new technique to spot autism
15.09.2016
With a tablet, it is possible to identify the symptoms of autism in 93 percent of cases, as indicated by the results of the latest study by Anna Anzulewicz from the JU Institute of Psychology and her collaborators, published by the journal Scientific Reports.
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