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BERA Logistics and Research Centre on Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructure

The BERA Logistics and Research Centre on Svalbard has been added to the Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructure, a list of strategic research infrastructure. It is one of eight strategic research infrastructures recognised in the field of Earth and environmental sciences. The updated Roadmap includes 165 infrastructures, each recognised for its exceptional research potential. As...

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Nearly five decades of Arctic research and new challenges: University of Silesia scientists head to Svalbard

For nearly five decades, scientists from the University of Silesia in Katowice have been conducting research in the Arctic, documenting the pace and impacts of environmental change in the polar region. From 6 to 21 August 2026, a team from the Centre for Polar Studies at the University of Silesia will once again travel to...

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Unique discovery in the Polish meteorite Morasko

| Prof. Evgeny Galuskin, Prof. Irina Galuskina | In early 2026, the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature, and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association (CNMNC-IMA) accepted a new mineral from the iron meteorite Morasko with the formula K(Ti7Cr)O16 (DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2026.10199). The mineral was named “copernikite” in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), a renowned Polish astronomer and...

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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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