Blue was among the most popular clothing colours of the inhabitants of Old Dongola. They wore mainly cotton and wool, according to research by chemists and archaeologists from the University of Warsaw. The results of their analysis of fabrics excavated on the territory of present-day Sudan were published in journal “Archaeometry”.

The researchers from the University of Warsaw developed an innovative artificial intelligence model that generates antibiotics and published their findings in “Nature Communications” journal.

The Solar-driven Chemistry network has settled the competition for projects on how to use solar energy. One of the winners is “SUNCOCAT project: Rational design of efficient energy and charge transfer in biophotoelectrodes for direct conversion of CO2 into fuel”, led by Professor Joanna Kargul from the UW Centre of New Technologies.

The University of Warsaw hosted diplomats and representatives of universities and research institutions of Uzbekistan and Peru on 23rd and 28th June, respectively.

Oxidation state usually takes the values from –4 up to +8, and even +9 in one case. Scientists from Centre of New Technologies have done advanced quatum-mechanical calculations and on this ground, they propose several simple molecules, where oxidation state is +9, and even could reach the value of +10.

Professor Roald Hoffmann is an outstanding specialist in theoretical chemistry who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981. On 30th August the scientist will be a special guest at UW as a lecturer during the 19th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry at the UW Faculty of Physics.

Hydrogen is considered to be clean and renewable fuel of the future, but is not found on our planet. Researchers from the UW described the new technology of synthesis of hydrogen storage materials.