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"Every waking moment a huge quantity of different stimuli reach our senses: sounds, smells, objects within our field of vision. But our capacity for attention is limited, so we consciously process only a small portion of them. What happens to stimuli that reach our senses but don?t gain access to...

"Half of us have a secret pouch in their heart that may lead to strokes. How and why does this pouch develop? How can it be detected? This was described by Dr Mateusz Hołda and his team, called ?HEART,? one of the top three teams in the world comprehensively studying cardiac anatomy. In 2017,...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

"Dr Mateusz Hołda, 2017 START programme laureate, cofounder and director of the HEART research team at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, is one of the Europeans under age 30, leaders in their fields, included in the ?30 under 30? list published by the American magazine...

"The results of research by an international team of physicists led by Dr Andrzej Stupakiewicz, a professor in the Department of Physics of Magnetism, Faculty of Physics, University of Białystok, and laureate of the TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, have been published in the...

"Poles have solved a research problem of carbon materials in laboratories all over the world by resorting to a method from over 150 years ago. The concept was described in Scientific Reports. Dr Dawid Janas, a laureate of the 2017 START programme and chemist at the Silesian University of...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

"The Foundation for Polish Science has announced the winners of the latest edition of the Poland-wide competition as part of the International Research Agendas (IRAP) programme. Out of 16 applications one project has been selected as the winner of the 10/2018 competition. Professor Maciej...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

" ?The history of the Holocaust and the genocides of the 1930s and 1940s must remain alive so we can grasp the challenges facing us today,? said Prof. Timothy Snyder, winner of the 2018 Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the humanities and social sciences, in a discussion with Patrycja Dołowy,...

"?We can?t yet describe the fifth force, but we have very strong grounds for suspecting its existence,? Prof. Krzysztof Pachucki, winner of the 2018 Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, told Karolina Duszczyk (Science in Poland editor at the...

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"We are pleased to report that a trio of laureates of Foundation for Polish Science programmes have won prestigious EMBO Installation Grants for 2018: START laureate Dr Anna Karnkowska from the Faculty of Biology and the Biological and Chemical Research Centre at the University of Warsaw and FIRST...

"We are pleased to report that Dr Katarzyna Magiera-Mularz of the Faculty of Chemistry at Jagiellonian University, a laureate of the 2018 START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, has won the Prof. Wacław Szybalski Award of the Committee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of...

"?I combine initiative with experience,? Prof. Andrzej Gałęski, winner of the 2018 Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the chemical and material sciences, explained in an interview with Karolina Duszczyk (Science in Poland editor at the Polish Press Agency). ?I plan an experiment and try to...

"?We must bet on people and their ideas,? says Prof. Andrzej Dziembowski, laureate of the 2018 Foundation for Polish Science Prize in the life and earth sciences. ?When we start new projects, I always seek out people with diverse research experience. In today?s times, research cannot be conducted...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

"It is our pleasure to announce that Alicja Babst-Kostecka, Ph.D., representing the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wladyslaw Szafer Institute of Botany, a laureate in the POWROTY/REINTEGRATION programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, has received the ?Polish Investments of the Future? award in...

"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...