Polish Academy of Sciences

Looted WWII zoo collection, including chimpanzee skin and a crocodile, returned to Poland after 83 years

During the course of inventorying and digitizing its entire collection, staff at the Haus der Natur in Salzberg came across numerous piece of ‘dubious origin’, including the objects now returned to Poland. Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego/Twitter

During the course of inventorying and digitizing its entire collection, staff at the Haus der Natur in Salzberg came across numerous piece of ‘dubious origin’, including the objects now returned to Poland.

’I’ve never seen anything like it’ says flabbergasted forester after stumbling across a-BOAR-able ‘Dalmatian piglets’

VIDEO: Jacek Boczar from the Opole Forest Inspectorate in southern Poland was gobsmacked after seeing the black and white baby porkers snorting around the ground in forests near the village of Tarnów Opolski.

Kraków firm devises underwater vehicles inspired by STINGRAYS to research seabed

Video: Working with the Polish Academy of Sciences, the fish-shaped unmanned underwater vehicles from Noa Marine will be able to autonomously collect chemical, acoustic, geological and visual data without human intervention for periods of up to six months.

Hevelius works added to UNESCO list

In this episode of The Debrief, we look at the life and times of Johannes Hevelius, a 17th century astronomer and brewer from the city of Gdańsk whose works have just been added to the UNESCO heritage list.

Hevelius works included on UNESCO heritage list

Five Johannes Hevelius works, including Selenographia and Machina coelestis, have been included on the National List of the UNESCO 'Memory of the World' Programme.

New species of prehistoric reptile related to crocodiles found in village dig

The specimen was found among fossils of vertebrates from about 210 million years ago, including lungfish and turtles, excavated at the archeological site in the village of Kocury, southwest Poland.

Ancient Greeks were washing their hands over 300 years earlier than thought, says new research

By examining the use of 130 examples of ceramic lekanes (a type of low bowl), Dr Bartłomiej Lis of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences found that the lekanes were used as handwashing basins – rather than as tableware to eat food from.

Wolves aren’t the bad guys, scientists warn as they urge public to stop demonising them

With their fearsome appearance, powerful jaws and sharp teeth, wolves are often portrayed as villains in film and literature. Now, as part of longstanding efforts to protect them scientists are urging people to view and treat them differently.

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.

Moose on the loose: Scientists calculate when cars are most likely to hit moose

The study, the first of its kind in Central Europe, analysed over a decade’s worth of collisions between moose and vehicles in Poland, spanning from 2003 to 2019.

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