How does a grain of dust affect the fate of the Universe? For starters, had there been no dust in the Universe in the first place, humankind would not exist, either...
Academia interviews Prof. Maria Jeleńska- Tiesseyre about her research into concentrations of heavy metals in dust samples collected from Warsaw households.
Palaces, manor houses, and churches erected by magnates during the Baroque were an expression of the patrons' artistic passions and a demonstration of their families' power.
The paintings of Roman Opałka created in the period from 1965 until his death in 2011, featuring sequences of consecutive numbers painted against ever-whiter backgrounds, have a deep existential quality.
New technologies are making it possible to gather and process huge amounts of data. This opens up fascinating possibilities as well as new challenges; it could also lead to a shift in the role and nature of science itself.
Poland's royal Vasa court of the 16th and 17th centuries was dominated by Italian musicians; this makes the career of Marcin Mielczewski, a Polish musician and composer of works still performed today, all the more unusual.
The genetic components of our sense of taste have been studied and described in some depth; however, human nutrition is also heavily influenced by civilization and culture.
In his essays and letters written during the occupation, Czesław Miłosz questions the roots of totalitarianism and challenges myths of European culture.
Routine methods for monitoring the seas and oceans are costly and unreliable. Researchers are placing their hopes in a new method: remote satellite sensing.
Studying the evolution of geosystems over geological timescales is the main aim of contemporary geology, and the most important task currently being pursued at the PAS Institute of Geological Sciences.
Being able to effectively protect our environment hinges upon first having a good understanding of the condition of its various elements and the mechanisms involved, and then taking any necessary steps to prevent and repair damage.
Prof. Tadeusz Kowalik (1926-2012) was one of the few Polish economists who advocated a fairer model for the Polish transformation, based on the examples of Scandinavian countries.
Those fantastically juicy apples sitting on supermarket shelves are not just simply nature's gift to us - they are also the result of numerous tests and ongoing scientific research.
In order to understand what constitutes the specific aromas of food, we first need to study the chemical structure of their constituents. This is being done by researchers working at modern chromatography laboratories.
The senses most traditionally associated with art perception are vision and hearing, whereas taste is generally linked with the culinary arts. Contemporary artists, however, rarely worry about such divisions.
Taste is an important element in power relationships, since as Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu maintained, good taste is simply the preferences displayed by groups with a certain social standing.