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Discovery made by researchers at the IRAP centre of excellence in Warsaw may enable network interface for quantum computers

10.10.2023

"A team of scientists at the QOT Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, including a student from the Faculty of Physics (University of Warsaw), made a device capable of the conversion of quantum information between microwave and optical photons. The results of research, published in “Nature...

Papers by winners of FNP programmes in Science Advances

31.01.2023

"Researchers of the Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, and the Max Planck Research Group of the Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, carried out a joint research project aimed at understanding photosynthetic processes...

Groundbreaking research by a laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science in the pages of "Nucleic Acids Research"

17.01.2023

"Researchers at the Jagiellonian University's Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB/UJ) have extended our knowledge of the protein structure of the Elongator complex with their latest work. The groundbreaking research was carried out by the Max Planck Research Group led by dr hab. Sebastian...

Polish scientists, laureates of FNP programmes, develop new method of writing holographic 3D images

30.12.2022

"A new method of writing holographic 3D images has been developed jointly by scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Bialystok. Their paper was published in Nature Communications. The method uses an opto-magnetic medium with a...

Polish-French Science Award Presented

05.12.2022

"Professors Pierre Kervella of the Paris Observatory and Grzegorz Pietrzyński of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award from the Foundation for Polish Science and...

Long COVID affects millions of people. Polish researchers on the trail of dangerous post-COVID syndrome

27.10.2022

"Scientists are getting closer to explaining the mystery of the so-called long COVID. The syndrome of prolonged symptoms, affecting people who have undergone infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can concern up to almost half of all infected people. However, there is still no answer to the question...

The FNP laureate's team makes the first observation of Ostwald ripening in an oxide-on-metal system

26.10.2022

"The research group, led by dr. hab. Mikołaj Lewandowski, prof. UAM, from the NanoBioMedical Centre at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, was the first to observe the occurrence of Ostwald ripening in a system consisting of oxide islands on a metallic substrate. The results of the research,...

AGH scientists ? as part of the FNP's TEAM-TECH programme ? have created groundbreaking thermoelectric modules

26.10.2022

"To date, the technologies used to convert waste heat into electricity are characterised by low efficiency and high cost, which significantly limits their application scope. However, this might soon change thanks to the scientists and doctoral students from the AGH UST who developed inexpensive...

Smart Computer Listener. Research by a Krakow team could change how we control our devices

29.09.2022

"The Krakow-based researchers could revolutionize how we talk to our devices - and to each other. The team of Konrad Kowalczyk, Ph.D., of the AGH University of Science and Technology, is developing a multi-microphone system that allows one to talk or dictate text freely even when the speaker is...

Research by scientists at IIMCB's Protein Metabolism Laboratory, under the leadership of FNP Laureate - a leading topic in the latest EMBO Journal

07.07.2022

"Scientists from the Laboratory of Protein Metabolism at the IIMCB in Warsaw, led by Wojciech Pokrzywa, Ph.D., D.Sc., winner of the FIRST TEAM programme of the Foundation for Polish Science ? a grant financed under the Smart Growth Operational Programme, have recently published an article entitled...

What role does a tRNA modification complex, called Elongator, play in brain development? FNP Laureate?s research results in EMBO Molecular Medicine

30.06.2022

"Co-funded by the Foundation for Polish Science with the funds from the Intelligent Development Operational Programme, the research conducted by scientists from the Max Planck Research Group at the Jagiellonian University?s Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB) in Krakow and their Australian,...

The FNP START Winner to Meet Nobel Laureates in Lindau

24.06.2022

"Bartosz Błasiak, D.Eng., a START programme stipendiary, will meet in Lindau with Nobel laureates and several hundred young scientists from around the world. This year?s 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will happen from June 26 to July 1 and will focus on chemistry. Bartosz Błasiak, D.Eng., an...

An isolated black hole roaming our Milky Way galaxy - The Foundation?s beneficiaries among the discoverers

13.06.2022

"The Milky Way galaxy is expected to host over 100 million isolated black holes. Two independent teams of scientists, including astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw - among them many winners of FNP prizes and programs, have for the first time discovered what...

FNP Laureates have found a useful application for a quantum processor

14.02.2022

"Researchers from the University of Warsaw have built the first quantum processor in Poland and are putting it to use in spectroscopy. They?ve demonstrated how quantum information processing can efficiently provide information on matter hidden in light. Their research was co-financed by the...

Observation of Feshbach resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms - a research paper published in "Nature" by the laureates of the FNP Prizes

16.12.2021

"Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of Freiburg have observed Feshbach resonances for the first time, and explained resonances between a single ion and ultracold atoms. An article with a summary of the results of the research has appeared in a...

Scientists Discover New Bacteria Survival Mechanism

16.09.2021

"Researchers discovered a new tactic that bacteria use to fight to access nutrients. The discovery may allow for the development of new antibacterial agents in the future. The study results appeared in the scientific journal Science Advances, which also promoted the research on the cover. The work...

A START Team is Tracing the Origins of Life on Earth

24.06.2021

" Four billion years ago, when the first living molecules appeared on Earth, there was no protective ozone layer in the atmosphere. In effect, the biostructures of the time must have been extremely resistant to UV radiation. According to the Polish-Czech-British team of scientists, the first...

FNP Laureates Publish in Prestigious PNAS

17.03.2021

"Prof. Daniel T. Gryko from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ICHO PAN) in Warsaw, winner of many Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) programs, discovered how long-range electron transfer can occur, along with his collaborators from the Institute ? Prof....

Physicists from Białystok have presented a new ultrafast data recording mechanism

02.03.2021

"People are now producing huge amounts of digital data. A sudden increase in the amount of information to be processed, stored and transferred is quite a challenge for scientists working on new technologies associated with data processing and recording. The research team working under the...

Molecular anchors might help treat neurological and oncological diseases

16.02.2021

"A European team of scientists, including researchers from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (MIBMiK) in Warsaw, discovered proteins participating in the management of metabolic processes taking place inside human cells. Deregulation of the signal path controlled by these...

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