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Position statement by the Polish Academy of Sciences regarding the large-scale culling of wild boars
“From the perspective of African swine fever, however, reducing the wild boar population should be merely one of the measures aimed at preventing the disease from spreading. Only around 5% of culled wild boards have had contact with the ASF virus. The infection rate is much higher among fallen wild boars (80%)…” – write representatives of the Polish Academy of Sciences in their position statement regarding the large-scale culling of wild boars.
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New invasive species threatening the EU’s environment have been identified
Certain species of fish, crayfish or squirrels, non-native in Europe, are among the most dangerous invasive alien species that can be detrimental to the EU’s environment. Most of them come from the tropical zone and have little chance of survival in Poland – says Dr. Wojciech Solarz from the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków.
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Nearly PLN 15 million for developing GaN technology
The Industrial Development Agency granted a loan for the amount of PLN 14.72 million to the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IWC PAN). The above funds will be used by IWC PAN for acquiring Ammono S.A. Consequently, the Institute will acquire the technology of producing substrate crystals from gallium nitride (GaN) and infrastructure making this production possible.
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Study: Narcissists are less likely to support democracy
The level of support for democracy depends on the person`s self-esteem; narcissistic persons are less inclined to support this system, according to a study conducted with the participation of psychologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte among the most significant people by "Nature"
Valérie Masson-Delmotte is a French climate specialist and research director at the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission. In December 2018, she was a lecturer at the symposium "Safeguarding Our Climate, Advancing Our Society" organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Structural details of monolayers revealed
Liquid crystal layers a single molecule thick can form extremely complicated structures. The complex construction of these monolayers makes it difficult to visualize them using standard scanning microscopy. Despite this, images from an STM, obtained at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, reveal, for the first time, structural details of monolayers of liquid crystal dimers, also indicating the mechanisms responsible for the birth of chirality.
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In search of related particles
The last missing particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012 in the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Since then, searching for new, related particles has been underway. Predicted by various theories that go beyond known physics, Higgs bosons with positive or negative electric charge are among the favorites to be observed. But do these particles really exist?
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