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„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...

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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...

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tags : nauki chemiczne

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Discovering the treasures of nature – challenges of mineralogists | Research of scientists of the University of Silesia

| Weronika Cygan | Towards the end of 2023, our scientists shared the information on discovering karwowskiite, Ca9MgFe2+0.5(PO4)7, which was named after their late colleague and long-term employee of the University of Silesia, Prof. Łukasz Karwowski. However, the researchers have emphasized that this mineral is only one of many among their discoveries, and actually not...

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tags : earth and related environmental sciences

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The world’s first certification for solid biofuels used in combination with optical microscopy

| Olimpia Orządała | Scientists from the Centre for Biomass Energy Research and Education of the University of Silesia in Katowice have developed an innovative certification of solid biofuels. The method of petrographic analysis in reflected light in oil immersion was used for the first time in the world. Thanks to microscopic tests, it is...

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Insects that have taken over the entire world | Research by M. Kanturski, PhD, Assoc. Prof.

| Małgorzata Kłoskowicz PhD | Aphids can be found virtually everywhere on Earth. On the one hand, they live in quite well-known centres of biodiversity, in the Himalayas, Japan and the Mediterranean basin. On the other hand, they can still be found in poorly explored places on the world map, such as Bhutan – a...

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tags : biological sciences

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No Limits | Transformations of Masculinity in the 20th Century

What is the article about?What is the article about? The concept of ‘masculinity’ was never a monolith. Over the centuries, it underwent constant transformations. In the 20th century, the I World War gave cause to take a fresh look at the behaviours and characteristics attributed to men. Contact Aleksandra Dębińska, MA from the Institute of...

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tags : historynauki społeczneno limits

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No Limits | Digitisation and restoration to preserve cinematographic heritage

What is the article about?What is the article about? Modern technologies allow us to rescue old works of cinematography. Titles that were in danger of being lost due to deteriorating media carriers are today moving from analogue to digital versions. The question remains, should the works only be reconstructed or should some additional elements be...

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tags : film and theatre

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The T2K neutrino experiment is entering a new phase

The J-PARC accelerator centre on the east coast of Japan has been conducting research on the properties of neutrinos since 2010 as part of the Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment. A group of physicists from the Institute of Physics at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Silesia in Katowice participates in the project...

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