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The next pandemic is only a matter of time, and it could be more dangerous than Covid-19. We need to prepare now, and governments should pay attention to poorer and discriminated social groups in their plans, wrote the authors of the latest Canadian report.more

In the north-east Atlantic, the population of marine predators, especially shark species, is declining, according to a study conducted by an expedition composed of representatives of several Portuguese scientific centres.more

Scientists from the Chinese company Robot Era have demonstrated a new humanoid robot that can reach speeds of up to 12 km per hour, making it the fastest such machine in the world, Live Science reported. To achieve such speed, the robot was equipped with special shoes.more

We are living longer, but the rate of increase in average life expectancy is declining. The reason for this is not the pandemic, according to research published in Nature Aging.more

Using machine learning, biologists have described nearly 162,000 RNA viruses living in the atmosphere, hot springs, and hydrothermal vents. Scientists hope that the new method will allow the discovery of millions more viruses and make it easier to describe life on Earth in general.more

It is not so much the researchers of chemical processes as the developers of new computational tools to study them who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper gave science computational methods to design and predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.more

The scientists whose discoveries made machine learning and the development of artificial intelligence possible - American John J. Hopfield and Canadian Geoffrey E. Hinton - have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.more

US biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been named this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the Nobel Committee announced today. They were recognised for discovering a mechanism that helps to understand the development of autoimmune diseases, cancer or diabetes.more

Fungi move, communicate and have sex,’ conveyed mycologist Dr Marta Wrzosek. They are similar to animals and share a common ancestor with them.more

A new study suggests that grasshoppers could be a good source of nutrients in the future - including for humans - say scientists who have investigated the impact of a diet based on protein from these insects on the health of the rodents.more

The results of a recent study by Cambridge University researchers leave no doubt that one way to combat climate change could be to fly planes more slowly. Reducing their speed by 15 per cent would result in a reduction in the carbon footprint they leave behind and lower fuel burn.more

Diseases caused by pathogens resistant to available antimicrobial drugs could cause the deaths of more than 39 million people over the next 25 years and indirectly contribute to another 169 million deaths, according to a forecast published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet.more

They tested how to separate drunken worms from sober worms, spooked cows to check milk leaks from their udders, and unmasked fake centenarians - the authors of the bizarre and hilarious research received statuettes and $100 trillion at the 34th Ig Nobel ceremony.more

On September 8, the student competition of the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics ended in Alexandria. The representative of Poland, Adam Gąsienica-Samek from the XIV Stanisław Staszic High School in Warsaw, won second place in the world and a gold medal. In the unofficial medal classification of countries, Poland took 3rd place ex-aequo with Japan.more

Pain is the most common and serious symptom reported by people with long Covid, according to a study by University College London. The latest publication by scientists there describes the results of an analysis of data collected from more than 1,000 British adults.more

Austria was entitled to punish a doctor who publicly proclaimed the ineffectiveness of vaccinations and doubted the existence of viruses, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday. The Austrian doctor was given a suspended fine of 2,000 euros.more

Climate policy is still mostly of little relevance to stopping climate change, reports ‘Science’.more

A group of science bodies say "essential experiences" will reduce inequalities in subjects like science, technology, engineering and mathematics, in which children with limited first-hand experiences are "undeniably at a disadvantage".more

There are eight Polish universities among the thousand best universities in the world. The highest ranked are the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw, which were included in the fifth hundred of the Shanghai List published on Thursday.more

The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.more

In the four years since the outbreak of the pandemic, 400 million people have contracted long Covid, and the annual losses associated with it reach one trillion dollars, according to the latest report published by Nature Medicine.more

Technology that identifies people at risk of a heart attack in the next 10 years has been hailed as "game changing" by scientists. The artificial intelligence (AI) model detects inflammation in the heart that does not show up on CT scans, which involve a combination of X-rays and computer technology.more

he journal "Earth-Science Reviews" published an article suggesting that the oldest traces of hominids in Europe are located on the Iberian Peninsula, dating back as far as 1.3 million years.more

Analysis of data on 46 million adults showed that the number of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots of various types decreased after COVID-19 vaccination. Those who were vaccinated were at lower risk of such problems than those who were not vaccinated.more

The UK science secretary has warned Britain is “desperately exposed” to cyber-threats and the upheaval of another pandemic, claiming that national resilience suffered “catastrophically” under the previous government.more