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Sensation in a storage. Recent discovery by an Egyptologist from the PAS Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures
Thousands of stone blocks stored for years near Luxor turned out to be the remains of the monumental tomb of Thutmose I. Fragments of the temple, which archaeologists have been trying to find for a long time, were identified by Jadwiga Iwaszczuk, a Polish Egyptologist.
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ERC workshop for Humanities and Social Sciences with Oxford University
PAS Excellence in Science Department and Oxford University European Office kindly invite researchers for a workshop devoted to the ERC grants in Humanities and Social Sciences. The Workshop will take place on September 14-15th 2017 in Warsaw.
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A third detection of Gravitational Waves emitted by another binary black hole system
Results confirm new population of black holes. A third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, has been made. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves were generated when two black holes merged to form a larger black hole.
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Making measurements in space yet more accurate
An international team of astronomers led by the Polish Araucaria group from the PAS Copernicus Astronomical Center announced another important discovery in the field of measuring distances across the Universe. Based on very precise measurements of the distances to the near galaxies of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, the researchers were able to determine how the luminosity of Cepheids depends on metallicity.
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