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Heavy rainfalls are common on the Indonesian island. Landslides and floods make up over 50% of all natural disasters there. It turns out that extreme phenomena can be predicted with greater accuracy. Dariusz Baranowski, PhD from the PAS Institute of Geophysics carries out research on this subject. His team's findings has just been published in the prestigious Nature Communications journal.
Developing of the COVID-19 lateral flow test kits. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 works at the molecular level. These are examples of projects that will be implemented at the institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) thanks to the funding from the National Science Center (NCN).
"Hot July leads to frosts in January", " From the Saint Anne Day evenings and mornings will be cooler", " For Saint Wit crops will flourish". Such folk sayings are an expression of the collective wisdom of many generations. For hundreds of years, they helped farmers and sailors to predict the weather. But are they still valid? Scientists analyzed the proverbs’ accuracies.
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