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Poland could face 5,000 additional daily COVID-19 infections due to protests

Monday marked the 12th day of mass protests against an October 22 constitutional court ruling which halted pregnancy terminations for foetal abnormalities, and practically introduced an almost total ban on abortion in Poland. Maciej Kulczyński/PAP

The massive nationwide protests against tightening Poland’s abortion law could add an additional 5,000 coronavirus infections a day.

Forester finds ancient Neolithic settlement in Elbląg wood

The settlement may have belonged to a little-known people who lived on the Baltic coast around 2000 BC.

Warsaw University opens doors to Belarusian students

Warsaw University will accept students expelled from Belarusian colleges amidst the mass social protests underway in the country, the rector of the university Marcin Pałys announced on Friday.

Polish archaeologists reveal Egyptian treasure

Archaeologists have uncovered a stone chest from 3,500 years ago in rubble above the Egyptian site of Deir el-Bahari.

Stone chest found in ancient temple and containing skeleton of a sacrificial goose could lead to hidden royal tomb

Professor Andrzej Niwiński who is leading the team of archaeologists at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut in Egypt said the 3,500-year-old chest proves that “since we are in the centre of the royal cemetery, it is definitely a tomb. Finding this deposit indicates that we are in the process of discovering the tomb."

4X4: skeleton of dinosaur dug up in Silesia indicates ancestors of dinosaurs were four legged, not two

It has long been thought the great reptiles evolved from two-legged animals but the Silesaurus could change all that.

Fascinating new research sheds light on unknown secrets of Polish wolf packs

​​Taking seven years to conduct their research, the team of scientists under ​Prof. Robert Mysłajek from the Warsaw University’s Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology gathered and genetically analysed 2,300 samples of excrement, urine, fur and fragments of tissues from dead wolves from all over Poland.

Astronomers create stunning 3D map of the Milky Way to study structure of the galaxy

The team from the University of Warsaw say their unique map, which was based on observing 2,400 stars less than 250 million years old, is more accurate than models currently in use.

Ace in the hole! Archeologists stumble upon 1200-year-old tomb after nearly falling down burial hole

While investigating a location used for sacrifices, the archeologists led by Warsaw University’s ‘Indiana Jones’, Prof. Miłosz Giersz, came across the tomb containing the remains of a 20-year-old man in a sitting position surrounded by tools made of rare metal including a saw, a collection of knives and an axe.

Conference pays tribute to the man behind UN’s genocide laws

Following the outbreak of WW II, in 1941 lawyer Rafał Lemkin managed to emigrate to the United States, but lost 49 of his relatives in the Holocaust. He became pivotal in helping set up the United Nation’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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