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Underground methane can be highly lethal, appearing suddenly and mixing with air to form a strongly explosive gas. Dealing with methane quickly and safely requires an efficient system of ventilation and monitoring, ready for any scenario.

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Wacław Dziurzyński

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Saving the Suslik

Aleksandra Gondek

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 18-21

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Aleksandra Gondek

Art and the State

Dariusz Konstantynów

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 30-31

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State patronage for artists and forging bonds between art and society, concepts promoted in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, also won supporters among Polish artists, who saw them as a remedy for the "crisis of art".

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Dariusz Konstantynów

Here Comes the Flood

Wojciech Majewski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 26-29

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Can disastrous floods be avoided? The answer to that question of course has to be "no": we are simply unable to fully protect against these natural phenomena. Nonetheless, research on the course and consequences of floods is helping us to mitigate their negative social, economic, and ecological impact, and above all to avoid human fatalities.

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Wojciech Majewski

Alien Invasion

Wojciech Solarz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 6-9

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The hustle-and-bustle of our everyday lives generally prevents us from noticing the fierce, life-and-death battles quietly paying out around us, as incoming "invaders" ruthlessly conquer native species of plants and animals. Can we cope with this problem?

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Wojciech Solarz

Science - A Great Challenge

Michał Kleiber

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 4-5

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Michał Kleiber

An Endangered Language

Elzbieta Wrocławska Jadwiga Zieniukowa

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 14-17

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The Serbs are a fascinating indigenous Slavic minority in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Having preserved their own cultural and linguistic identity through centuries of Germanization and despite Nazi persecution, they now face threats stemming from globalization.

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Elzbieta Wrocławska

Jadwiga Zieniukowa

Shooting Stars

Arkadiusz Olech

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 10-13

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Space agencies like NASA spend millions of dollars trying to obtain samples of extraterrestrial matter. Nonetheless, several million particles of interplanetary dust actually fall into our atmosphere every day - how can such precious cosmic material be recovered?

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Arkadiusz Olech

What It Takes to Really Compete

Grzegorz Węgrzyn

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 42-45

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Grzegorz Węgrzyn

Breathing Without Oxygen

Teresa Włodarczyk Małgorzata Brzezińska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 40-41

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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.

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Teresa Włodarczyk

Małgorzata Brzezińska

Black Magic

Andrzej Pieńkowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 50

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Andrzej Pieńkowski

Materials of the Future

Roman Świetlik

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2007 | Nr 2 (14) 2007 Danger | 48-49

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Roman Świetlik

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