The first Polish-Finnish observation satellite will be launched into orbit later this year, representatives of Creotech Instruments and ICEYE announced this week in Warsaw. It will become part of a constellation of 18 cooperating satellites.

The innovative locator for recreational divers designed by the Wavy team from Lodz University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology was one of the top six student projects in the Big Data category during the world finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2018, which took place in the U.S.

What can cold atoms be used for? For example, to design the materials of the future! Dr. Mariusz Semczuk, a physicist at the University of Warsaw, talks about his research on cooling atoms.

Modern information technologies, particularly their integration with the human nervous system (cyborgization), can contribute to the concentration of power and domination over entire societies, warns Prof. Zygmunt Vetulani from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

The rocket Turbulencja built by students of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków took second place in one of the categories of the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) in the U.S. The AGH UST team was the first team from Poland to compete in IREC.

How can we feed future colonists on Mars? Wrocław scientists are working on this problem by developing a wastewater treatment system. Its purpose is to help obtain water and nutrients for aeroponic plant crops in extraterrestrial colonies.

How to convert an ordinary folding bike into a stable three-wheeler for a senior or a leaning racer for a teenager? A student of the Cracow University of Technology Wojciech Janas has an idea.

Borówiec near Poznań has the most precise atomic clocks in Poland; they are used to set the time standard for the world. Very accurate time is also necessary in scientific research - in physics and astronomy.

Specialists from the University of Warsaw are developing technology for obtaining valuable rare earth metals such as scandium, yttrium or cerium from anthropogenic deposits. Although the idea was born in Indonesia, the researchers argue that it can be successfully used in Poland.