Silesian research
New ambulance equipment | An invention of USil scientists
| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz, PhD | Scientists have designed a special pneumatic tent for safe transport by ambulance of patients suspected of having an infectious disease. The invention, which was registered with the Polish Patent Office, is currently being tested in clinical conditions in several Silesian hospitals. The folded pneumatic tent is the size of a...
Small plant, great possibilities | Research by Prof. Małgorzata Gaj
| Weronika Cygan-Adamczyk | When she started her career as a scientist, no one in Poland was working on this small, inconspicuous plant. Only thanks to her promoter, Prof. Mirosław Małuszyński, who in the 1980s brought small seeds from an internship in Belgium and began his adventure with Arabidopsis thaliana – the thale cress, also...
No Limits | Towards Symbiocene. The future of climate education in Poland
What is the article about?What is the article about? Anthropogenic climate change is a fact confirmed by subsequent research conducted all over the world. Meanwhile, Polish schools usually do not include information on this topic in their education programmes even though the students often express such a need. Contact Magdalena Ochwat, PhD from the Institute...
How to show that science is interesting? | Interview with Prof. A. Daszkowska-Golec
‘You don’t need decorations to convince someone that science is interesting’ | Weronika Cygan-Adamczyk | In January 2024, Agata Daszkowska-Golec, PhD, Dsc, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean for Research Promotion and Internationalisation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Silesia returned from a research stay in the United States. She will go back...
Plastic world | World Earth Day
| Agnieszka Sikora | On 22 April, we celebrate World Earth Day for the 54th time. This year’s theme is ‘Planet vs. Plastic’. Plastic production has now increased to over 380 million tonnes per year. More plastic has been produced in the last ten years than in the entire 20th century, and the industry is...
„No Limits” | Goodbye, coal
What is the article about?What is the article about? Decarbonisation is a hot topic present in the centre of public discourse in many countries. The research conducted by Marta Tomczok, PhD, DLitt, Associate Professor, shows how large a role culture can play in taming decarbonisation. Contact Marta Tomczok, PhD, DLitt, Associate Professor, Institute of Literary...
New solutions for medicine, agribusiness and the waste processing industry | Research by Ł. Pieszczek, PhD
| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz, PhD | Łukasz Pieszczek, PhD from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Silesia in Katowice received the award of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences for his PhD thesis, in which he developed the principles of metrology and chemometrics in the field of...