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Pensioner becomes PhD at age of 83 from one of Poland’s best universities!

Ignacy Skrzypek, 83, gained the title from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, after successfully defending his thesis ‘The history of museology in Western Pomerania up to 1945’. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Ignacy Skrzypek, 83, gained the title from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, after successfully defending his thesis ‘The history of museology in Western Pomerania up to 1945’.

Poznań scientists create world’s first video of space-time crystal

VIDEO: Using the scanning transmission X-ray microscope Maxymus at Bessy II at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, the  team was able to film the recurring periodic magnetisation structure in a crystal.

Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms

The coins date from between 1657 and 1667, pointing to their minting shortly after the Deluge, a series of wars with Sweden throughout the 17th century which wreaked havoc and destruction throughout the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Poznań scientists dig up 8,000-year-old figurine on site of one of the world’s oldest cities

The ancient carved figure sheds light on the lives of ancient people.

Tender announced for stunning new Enigma museum honouring Polish mathematicians who broke the code

A joint collaboration between city authorities and the local Adam Mickiewicz University, the project is set to cost in excess of 20 million złoty with substantial EU funding already secured.

Digging deep: Cooking pots reveal how ancient megacity died out because of climate change

The pioneering work is the first time shards from cooking pots have been used to obtain data and it opens the door to new research using ceramic to reconstruct the climate in ancient societies.

Full text of Polish literature’s oldest masterpiece found

The discovery of Polikarp’s Dialogue with Death, with a complete Polish text of 918 verses, makes it the biggest event in the country’s language and literature scholarship for several decades.

Europe's largest collection of Masonic prints in Polish city of Poznań

The biggest collection of Masonic prints in Europe (about 80,000 examples) is stored in the Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (western Poland). According to curators, it is the most popular part of the collection among foreign guests.

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History | Life

Monte Cassino veteran and friend of Wojtek the bear dies aged 95

Ludwik Jaszczur, who was originally from the village of Blizne in Podkarpacie, died on Monday at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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