During the Roundtable of Longevity Clinics, Joanna Bensz sat down with Peter Diamandis, Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, to explore the future of longevity clinics, the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics, and the critical role of mindset in extending healthspan. The concept of longevity clinics is gaining traction worldwide. How do you…
The Academic Computer Centre ‘Cyfronet’ at AGH University in Kraków is implementing the AI Factory project to become the first Artificial Intelligence Factory in Poland. Thanks to the government’s and the European Union’s financial support of zł 70 m ($17.5 m), the Centre’s main supercomputer, Helios GPU, will have its computing power strengthened to become…
In October, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Hera probe with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a long trek across the Solar System to the binary asteroid system Didymos-Dimorphos, which became famous in September 2022 after NASA’s probe hit Dimorphos during the Double Asteroid Redirect…
Scientists from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology are completing work on a prototype bionic prosthesis for people after forearm amputations. It is named BEEPP – Bionic, Ergonomic, Economic, Polish Prosthesis. It consists of plastic components printed in 3D technology – the elbow, the forearm and the palm – filled with medical, mechanical, electronic,…
On 16 August 2024 the biggest Polish satellite EagleEye engineered by Creotech Instruments (project leader), Scanway (optics) and the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (computer) was put in orbit from Vanderberd Space Base in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Transporter 11 mission on Falcon 9 rocket. Its dimensions are 55 x 150 x…
Last year, Poland celebrated the 550th anniversary of the birth of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, discoverer of the Solar System as the starting point for contemporary knowledge of what’s beyond the Earth. Five centuries later and the field of space is again witnessing unprecedented developments in science, technology and business, where mankind is making…
Andrzej Duda, for his last time as president, took part in the International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce in early September, one of the most important such events in Europe, with 769 exhibitors from 34 countries gathered in the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship south of Warsaw. “This is a very important event for…
Student team AGH Space Systems from AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków) and their planetary rover Kalman won the international rover competition in the United States, the University Rover Challenge (URC). The second Polish team with Scorpio rover from Wrocław University of Science and Technology was 13th. During 3-day challenge AGH scored 392.76 points…
The consortium of the Military University of Technology as the leader, the Military Institute of Medicine and TELDAT Sp. z o.o., with financial support of the Polish National Centre for Research and Development, are developing R&D project of construction of the Medical Evacuation Decision Support System Swd-EwMed to monitor health of soldiers on a battlefield….
Can the process of Polish convergence at its current pace be sustained, or is it just a historical anomaly, and how does AI affect these dynamics? These are the key questions asked in a report “From industrial to technological competence. How Central Europe can win its future in the AI era” by Spotdata and the…
In 1994 Poland as the first Central-European Country signed the co-operation agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) and in 2014 the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) was established. Thanks to this Polish institutions and companies have been attending ESA’s missions, including the most recent one JUICE – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – to research Jupiter…
Every festival is characterized by the soul that moves it and in the European panorama, one of the most open to the themes of social inclusion and innovation is the WeMakeFuture festival, which this year will be held in Bologna on 13-15 June. Italy is certainly not the first country that springs to mind if…