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Space Research Centre engaged in NASA’s IMAP mission
PAS Space Research Centre (PAS SRC) will be NASA’s partner in its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission planned for launch in 2024. PAS SRC in cooperation with German partners (Universities of Bonn and Bochum) will provide a two-channel photometer GLOWS (GLObal solar Wind Structure).
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New chemical trail and the secrets of memory and depression
The world is bad and life is meaningless? It is not necessarily the fault of the world or life – or even your willingness. The sources of depression are complex and still poorly understood chemical processes occurring in the brain between neurons.
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Bioplastic produced by bacteria – new type of wound dressing
Variety of microbes under stress conditions produce… high-value plastic. Such a material, which is not artificial at all, easily decomposes and additionally displays good biocompatibility properties. We can use them to produce dressings or implant biomaterials.
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PAS Space Research Centre will help land a probe on Phobos
The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences is currently engaged in two ESA’s (European Space Agency) projects concerning landing on Phobos – one of Martians moons.
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U.S. Patent for Agnieszka Kikulska and Tomasz Wilanowski
On November 22nd, 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent (application number US 15/106,163) for an invention entitled: “A method for detecting an increased risk of developing skin cancer and a use of a genotype variant of the GRHL3 gene”.
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What sort of stream networks do scientific ideas flow along?
When scientists have an interesting idea, the result is usually a joint publication. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, it has been shown that tracking the dependencies between co-authors, one can not only see the paths along which scientific ideas flow, but also reconstruct the structure of scientific cooperation and detect emerging communities.
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Scientific meeting at the Nencki Institute
On Friday 15th June 2018, the annual Scientific Picnic of the Nencki Institute took place. From a scientific focus, the Nobel Prize laureate - Sir Tim Hunt gave a lecture entitled "A crooked path in science: stumbling on the secret of cell division".
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