University of Science and Technology in Kraków

Warsaw stadium roof to remain open due to cracks

The decision made on Monday means that the roof must remain open, even if it snows. Piotr Nowak/PAP

Experts have recommended that the roof of the National Stadium in Warsaw should remain open until the structure's audit is complete, which will take months.

Archaeologists uncover ‘unique sacrificial site’ found in 2,500-year-old lake

Working at a site near Chełmno in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian district, the archaeologists uncovered dozens of bronze ornaments in a peat bog, including necklaces, bracelets, greaves, decorative pins, as well as numerous human bones.

Poland unveils country’s fastest ever supercomputer the size of a small APARTMENT

Named Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the computer has a mind-boggling computing power of over 7.7 petaflops and according to Kraków’s elite AGH University of Science and Technology, is set to give a boost to Polish science and innovation.

Kraków woman stunned to receive reply to her message in a bottle 10 YEARS after throwing it into Gulf of Finland

Natalia Kunowska had stuck the letter containing her phone number and a 10 ruble note into the bottle before throwing it into the water where, a decade later it was found by a Russian ecologist called Maksim.

Sleeping in a winter wonder home! Kraków uni builds hibernation homes for hedgehogs

Around 18 metres long and 1.5 metres wide, the housing complex was designed to resemble a mini-version of the AGH University of Science and Technology’s building, so that, as the organisers put it, the hedgehogs “immediately feel that they live at AGH”.

Happy Appy Happy Talk: New app identifies diseases through speech patterns

With multiple medical conditions known to cause changes in how we speak, which is one of the first signs of emerging illnesses, Kraków startup Techmo has developed a clever app to help early detection.

Kraków team launches world’s FIRST satellite which navigates with ‘spinning magnetic liquid’

The fifth Polish satellite in near-Earth orbit, the KRAKsat will be the world’s first to use a ferrofluid flywheel. The main task of the satellite is to investigate how this will behave in space and whether it can be used in the space industry as a flywheel.

Over-droid: student gets top marks for making Star Wars robot

An engineering student makes waves in academia and on the internet by making a BB-8 replica for her thesis.

Science night: Kraków labs throw open their doors to the science loving public

Thousands in Małopolska flock to college labs and universities during Researcher’s Night.

Robopop: Students invent ukulele-playing robot

Like the result of a romantic weekend between Eric Clapton and R2D2, the inventors came up with a robot that can both pluck and strum. They now plan to give it a 3-D printed human body.

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