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Polish Academy of Sciences on the “Sustainability and Resilience” conference in Budapest
Representatives of the Polish Academy of Sciences participated in the conference entitled “Sustainability and Resilience”, which was held on 3-6 September 2017. The event was organised by Academia Europaea, ALLEA (All European Academies), the Young Academy of Europe, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which opened its palace to the guests of all meetings.
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Recovery of nova spotted by ancient Koreans illuminates many stages of star system’s life cycle
On a cold March night in Seoul almost 600 years ago, Korean astrologers spotted a bright new star in the tail of the constellation Scorpius. It was seen for just 14 days before fading from visibility. From these ancient records, modern astronomers determined that what the Royal Imperial Astrologers saw was a nova explosion, but they have been unable to find the binary star system that caused it - until now.
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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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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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Dooge Medal for Professor Zbigniew Kundzewicz
The International Hydrology Prize awarded by IAHS, with UNESCO and WMO, went this year to Professor Zbigniew Kondzewicz from the PAS Institute for the Agricultural and Forest Environment. The Dooge Medal is the highest disciplinary recognition for hydrologists and it is awarded for outstanding contributions to the Science of Hydrology.
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Polish physicists observe light-by-light scattering at CERN
Another important discovery was made with a significant contribution by Polish physicists conducting research at CERN within the ATLAS experiment using the Large Hadron Collider. For the first time ever, light-by-light scattering has been observed – a very rare phenomenon consisting in an interaction between two photons.
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Cybersecurity – Euro-CASE 2017 conference in Poznań
The Euro-CASE organisation (The European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering) organises a conference under the banner “Cybersecurity” on 7-8 November 2017 in Poznań. The event under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Ministry of Digital Affairs co-organises the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre, the Polish Academy of Sciences Branch in Poznań and the PAS Committee on Informatics.
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