Science blog

Exhaust fumes are not the only pollutants generated by cars. Research by AGH UST scientists also demonstrates that other health-threatening products include, for example, particulates from the wear of brake pads. At the moment,...[more]

‘The Internet is currently treated as one of the dimensions in which there is war’, says AGH UST Professor Marcin Niemiec from the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics, and Telecommunications. The scientist, who deals with...[more]

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is one of the largest astronomical projects in the world, which aims to erect ground-based observatories for investigating high-energy gamma radiation in space. This great endeavour has engaged more...[more]

Land surveyors from the AGH UST, for 4 years, have worked together with archaeologists to document historical artefacts that were unearthed on the premises of a settlement which dates back about 2,000 years and is located on the...[more]

Traditional computers based on the von Neumann architecture are ineffective for new types of applications, such as pattern recognition or machine learning. In the future, we may want to turn to technologies that use the so-called...[more]

How to transform an industrial plant into a smart factory? We’ve asked this question to the scientists from the Laboratory of Computer Science in Control and Management at the Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, who...[more]

For Brain Awareness Week, we are popping by scientists from the AGH UST Biochemistry Research Group. Among other things, they study the processes that occur in the human brain after the administration of opioids and other...[more]

200 years ago, in March 1822, Ignacy Łukasiewicz was born – a pioneer of the petrochemical industry and a prominent social activist and philanthropist. To commemorate the contribution of the inventor of the paraffin lamp to the...[more]

Used coffee grounds show a very high calorific value and contain considerable volumes of water, making them perfect additives to clay in the production process of porous ceramic materials with low thermal conductivity. Ewelina...[more]

Almost every day, we witness the phenomenon of corrosion – a gradual process of material degradation that stems from its interaction with the surroundings, either electrochemically or chemically. The former type manifests itself...[more]