The science festival concept originated in the US and Western Europe, but in Poland, due to great passion and goodwill shown by scientists, such festivals have grown into grand-scale events with unprecedented flair.
Białowieża forest has survived to the modern day retaining a broad diversity of animal and plant species, while at the same time hosting a centuries-old human presence.
The beautiful, intricate shells produced by foraminifera with astounding complexity turn out to be governed by simple mathematic rules. Once the underlying principles are discovered, foraminifera shapes can be "grown" on a computer screen.
The UN has declared 2008 the International Year of Planet Earth, an opportunity for pursuing ground- breaking research and promoting greater Earth-science awareness.
Although the possible existence of extrasolar planets, similar to the Earth or different, has intrigued astronomers for centuries, it was only in the early 1980s that the technical capacity to discover them emerged.
Fallow wasteland, seemingly worthless for agriculture, may in fact be of great natural value. We need to be very cautious when using it for cultivating energy plants.
In four years of salvage work in the region of the Fourth Nile Cataract, Polish archeologists have discovered and studied many artifacts of the Nubian culture. These objects have enabled them to reconstruct the history of these territories abounding in dramatic events.
Microorganisms invisible to the naked eye, billions living in every gram of soil, can have an impact on such global processes as the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
Although this cattle-threatening parasite conceals itself within the cells of its hosts, the routes whereby it spreads can be detected using modern diagnostic techniques.
Polish koniks, a semi-wild breed of horse, are a kind of natural relic and a precious part of Poland's and Europe's heritage. Their unique biological and breeding characteristics have led them to be recognized as a reserve genetic resource for horse breeding. Due to their small numbers, they are also classified as an endangere.
While the word "bloom" obviously has many positive connotations, the effects of the algal bloom phenomenon - now increasingly common in the Baltic Sea - are certainly nothing pleasant. Although the prevailing view is that mankind is to blame, that is probably not the whole story.
The spread of anti-Semitism in Poland during the interwar period was linked to the rising impact of nationalist ideology, as promoted by Roman Dmowski, co-founder of the National Democracy.
The International Center for Ecology focuses on advancing the science of ecohydrology and on the practical application of its principles, so as to regenerate our drinking water resources and improve their quality.
We have now reached the 50th anniversary of when mankind first began exploring space - the traditional start of the "space era" came with the launch of the first artificial satellite on 4 October 1957, followed by the first manned spaceflight on 12 April 1961. Nowadays we rarely stop to notice how many aspects of our daily lives are derived from this half-century of space research.
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