One fifth of Europe's population suffers from allergic reactions to a specific type of food. The prevalence of such hypersensitivity has stimulated a very intensive search for technologies yielding food products that are safe for such allergy sufferers to consume.
As followers of Christianity and Islam make up nearly half of the Earth's population, the relations between these two major religious systems and two civilizations are crucial for our world and its future.
The stereotype of a Polish peasant riding a pitiful horse-drawn wagon still lingers in the minds of many Poles. Is that what rural Poland really looks like today? How has EU accession changed farmers' attitudes and awareness?
Vast numbers of species are still waiting to be discovered. Although nothing can replace the work of classical taxonomists, biologists now want to speed up and simplify the identification of species by creating catalogs of genetic barcodes.
Restoring historic buildings to their former splendour using materials similar or identical to those used in the past poses a great challenge to the conservation community.
To be able to sensibly discuss European unification, we first need to recognize the extant frontiers and divisions. One of the fundamental tasks for sociologists should be to study and understand the essence of these borders and borderlands.
Water masses that differ in temperature and salinity come into contact along turbulent fronts and form vast eddies. The ocean is just as complex a medium as the atmosphere, and the two are inextricably intertwined.
In certain bird species the memory of migration routes is retained through traditions passed on from one generation to the next, while in others it is gene-encoded and inherited within specific populations.
What is memory? Why do we remember one thing well but forget another? Modern psychology is shedding more and more light into these corners of our minds.
In 1904, the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch first described a geometrical extraordinary figure with a "self-similar" edge, which he dubbed a "snowflake:' Nowadays such "self-similar" but "rough" sets are called fractals, well-known for their exceptional beauty, and are a subject of intense research.
The ongoing changes occurring within society are a difficult topic for study. One needs to posit a research thesis carefully and then to be very patient: emerging trends only become visible in the longer term.
Innovation offers a way to narrow the development gap. While innovativeness chiefly manifests itself on the company level, successful innovation requires both conducive measures in many socioeconomic domains and a change of attitudes among entrepreneurs, investors, and public administration.
The Institute of Art is Poland's sole interdisciplinary research unit, lacking a university counterpart, that pursues research and documentation work in the humanities within two specific domains: the study and history of art.
The world has become immersed in computers and their capabilities to simulate reality, yet in certain cases nothing can take the place of traditional methods and tools.
Research on the cosmic microwave background radiation, left behind from the early youth of the Universe, has already earned scientists two Nobel Prizes.