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Secrets of the Lower Castle Cavern | Research by Andrzej Tyc, PhD

The approx. 8 m high opening of the Lower Castle Cavern, built-up with a wall, state before the start of excavations | Photo by Andrzej Tyc | Maria Sztuka | The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland is a real treat not only for the lovers of landscapes straight from the Jurassic period. It is also a huge testing...

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tags : geologia

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Clean Odra? Soon not | Research by the Silesian Water Centre UŚ

Start of the expedition in Ostrava | archive of Andrzej Woźnica | Weronika Cygan | „We were the last to see the deceased alive. We crossed the river exactly five days before the catastrophe” says Andrzej Woźnica, PhD, Associate Professor, director of the Silesian Water Centre (ŚCW) of the University of Silesia, who participated in...

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tags : biological sciencesgeologia

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You can do many things with biomass | Research by Agnieszka Drobniak, PhD Eng.

Agnieszka Drobniak, PhD Eng. | private archive of A. Drobniak | Weronika Cygan | Biomass is a fairly broad concept that has been gaining more and more popularity recently. For years, the fuels obtained from it have been studied by Agnieszka Drobniak, PhD Eng. – geologist, who after more than 20 years of work in...

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tags : badania naukowe

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Yet another USil polar expedition to Spitsbergen has returned home

Photo by Dariusz Ignatiuk The final stage of this year’s research conducted by scientists from the University of Silesia on Svalbard has come to an end. The expedition of the Institute of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Polar Studies, consisting of Malgorzata Błaszczyk, PhD Eng., Dariusz Ignatiuk, PhD, and Michał Laska, PhD, completed almost...

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Szopienice and its “lead” legacy | Research by Prof. Robert Krzysztofik

A management building with a clock tower from 1912 and a water tower – these are the remains of the smelting plant located in Szopienice, one of the districts in Katowice. The history of smelting zinc and lead in this area dates back to the early 19th century. The operation of this and the neighbouring...

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Freedom of Reasearch | The mysterious beginnings of the Polish avant-garde

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tags : literaturoznawstwo

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58th Polar Expedition to Spitsbergen – Photo report

In August 2022, members of the 58th polar expedition of the University of Silesia to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) returned to Poland. The expedition was the next step in a series of field research on changes in the Arctic’s environment due to accelerated climate warming. Quantitative monitoring and observations of glacier changes in southern Spitsbergen are the...

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tags : badania polarne

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Freedom of Reasearch | To war with the bee tormentor

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tags : biological sciences