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POLAR-2 at the POLSA conference

W dniach 23-24 listopada odbędzie się konferencja „O Lemie i kosmosie” organizowana przez Polską Agencję Kosmiczną POLSA.  Dr Adam Zadrożny oraz mgr inż. Dominik Rybka – naukowcy z Narodowego Centrum Badań Jądrowych, będą mówić na niej o międzynarodowym projekcie POLAR-2 i polskim wkładzie w tę misję. ----

LIGO and Virgo extend the catalog of gravitational waves

Illustration of the size and types of objects observed by the LVK consortium
In the data from the third observatory campaign of Advanced-LIGO and Advanced-Virgo observatories (from November 2019 to March 2020), another 35 sources of gravitational waves were found, thus extending their list to 90 objects. 32 sources come from the merger of two black holes, and 3 from the merger of the black hole system with a neutron star.  Scientists from the NCBJ Astrophysics Department are participating in the work of the LVK consortium. ----

10th Anniversary Symposium – congratulations and recordings

prof. Krzysztof Kurek w trakcie prezentacji na Sympozjum Dziesięciolecia NCBJ
On November 5, 2021, a ceremonial Symposium was held on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Institute. On this occasion, we have received nice congratulatory letters, for which we would like to thank you! Recordings of the Symposium presentations are now available on the institute’s YouTube channel. ----

The concentration of radionuclides in the polar air as a source of valuable information

Stacja polarna PAN w Hornsundzie - panorama
Scientists from NCBJ and the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences have published the results of many years of research on radionuclide concentrations in the polar region and in Poland. The collected data enriches the knowledge about the movement and mixing of air masses on a regional to global scale, and about environmental dust. ----

”Speed ​​is our domain” – advanced simulations in vehicle design

Designers ideas can be verified without incurring the cost of building a prototype. Numerical simulations using high-power computers accelerate calculations up to several hundred times compared to standard workstations. The Świerk IT Center (CIŚ) at NCBJ offers such opportunities. They were presented on the example of a simulation of air flow around an electric motorcycle designed by students. ----

J-PET: positron annihilation allows for even more precise imaging of lesions

J-PET wraz z grupą twórców
For the first time in the world, the creators of the Krakow-based J-PET showed how to obtain additional valuable information about the location of lesions. The method is based on the analysis of processes involving positronia arising in the patient’s body. The first very promising images have already been obtained, and the results have been published, among others in the journal Nature Communications. Scientists from NCBJ are the co-authors of the new method. ----

A new marker for imaging cancer cells

An international team of scientists, including scientists from the POLATOM Radioisotope Center of the National Center for Nuclear Research in Świerk, proposed the use of a new chemical compound[99mTc] Tc-DB15 for imaging prostate and breast cancer. ----

HELP – a modern and standardized catalog of extra-galactic objects

An international team of scientists has provided scientists and enthusiasts with the most complete catalog of extragalactic objects to date, covering an area of ​​over 3% of the full angle of the sky’s solid and containing 170 million sources. The modeling of their energy spectra was the responsibility of Ph. D. Katarzyna Małek from the NCBJ Astrophysics Department. ----

Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski won this year's Polityka Science Award

dr Sebastian Trojanowski
Congratulations! Dr. Trojanowski is an employee of the Department of Theoretical Physics (as well as the Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences). His achievements include co-design of a new experiment at the LHC: FASER is to search for dark matter particles. ----

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