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26 February 2026
Ultra-durable materials. Will Polish scientists conquer space?
Several decades ago, space was the battleground for two superpowers – the United States and the USSR – which fought a technological war against each other. After the collapse of the USSR, rapidly developing Asian countries such as China, India,…
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29 August 2025
Wagons, locomotives, bogies. We have been contributing to the development of Polish railways for 80 years
At the time when Maryla Rodowicz sang “Wsiąść do pociągu byle jakiego” („Hop on a train”), almost all trains running in Poland had one thing in common: they were designed in Poznań. The center that designed them is celebrating its…
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28 July 2025
Cyberpunk on wheels: technology in the lives of people with disabilities
Bionic limbs, real-time speech synthesizers, sensors in glasses, mind-controlled computers. Sounds like science fiction? In reality, these are everyday tools and often a necessity for many people with disabilities. The use of technology is now natural and commonplace. We don’t…
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13 February 2025
Love in the age of technology
This won’t just be a text about Tinder and other dating apps. It will also be about communication, robots and virtual boyfriends and girlfriends. However, we will start classically, with apps such as Tinder. And, out of chronicle decency, with…
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24 January 2025
Greenwashing, or playing green
Buying a cosmetic in a green box, GMO-free eggs or a drink in a recycled plastic bottle? You may have just been fooled by greenwashing. What is it? Why is it dangerous? How do you recognize it? Is eco-pea coal…
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9 December 2024
Plastic non fantastic
Wherever you look – there it is. In the housing of the screen on which you are reading this blog. In the form of hundreds of objects in our homes. In the water, in the air, in our bodies. Plastic.…
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8 October 2024
What will the agriculture of the future look like?
Will robots replace farmers? Will we use less fertilizers? Will it be possible to feed the world’s growing population? These are questions worth asking ourselves as we observe the rapidly changing agriculture. Thanks to agriculture, we transitioned to a sedentary…
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22 August 2024
A renaissance of wooden construction?
‘He found Poland wooden and left it made of brick’ is how the modernising successes of King Casimir the Great are summed up today. Wood symbolised backwardness, something to be replaced by another building material. So why does it now…
