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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...

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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...

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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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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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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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