Plastikowy świat | Światowy Dzień Ziemi
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unusual holidays
Peace in the sky?
| Tomek Grząślewicz | The skies thick with drones and the war beyond our eastern border make us pay more attention to media reports about incidents that disrupt the operation of aircraft and airports. On 1 June, when we celebrate the Day of the Air Traffic Service, it is worth paying attention to the safety...
Remarkable moms in the animal kingdom
Salmons travel thousands of kilometres to reach their spawning grounds | Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado, Unsplash Motherhood takes different forms in wildlife. Nonetheless, each of them requires a bigger or smaller sacrifice of a mother’s time, energy, health, and at times life. Although being an old evolutionary mechanism, it is hard to pinpoint the...
550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus
A plaster sculpture by Konstanty Laszczka, depicting the bust of Nicolaus Copernicus | National Digital Archive | Prof. Jan Sładkowski and Ilona Bednarek, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. | For almost 1,500 years, covering the last centuries of antiquity and almost the entire medieval period, we have been dealing with a stagnation in science, mainly due...
International Day of Peace – interview with Karolina Wojtasik, PhD
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World Oceans Day
|Katarzyna Juszkiewicz| The seas and oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s land surface and are inhabited by millions of species. Ocean plants, mainly algae, produce 70-80% of the oxygen and it is to them, and not to trees, that we owe fresh air. Today we celebrate World Oceans Day. The Day was established at...