…hese situations are described on the newly created website: bezpieczenstwo.uw.edu.pl. You can also find information about evacuation rules and assembly points on campuses, the location of automatic external defibrillators at the UW, pre-medical first aid, legal assistance, data protection and the safe organisation of events and gatherings at the university.   Directly from the website, you can dial the UW emergency phone number and report an emerg…

…programmes will be conducted in Polish: Bezpieczeństwo wewnętrzne (Internal Security), first-cycle programme at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies; Edukacja alternatywna z animacją społeczno-kulturalną (Alternative Education with Socio-Cultural Animation), first-cycle programme at the Faculty of Education; Edukacja alternatywna z edukacją artystyczną, (Alternative Education with Art Education), second-cycle programme at the…

…born baby could not be saved, are truly moving and devastating.   It is a reporter’s account of specific stories backed up by a substantial knowledge of the Deaf world and language.   “Deaf is a very important and needed book, which features the reality of the Deaf community. It tells the stories of Deaf children of hearing parents, hearing children of Deaf parents (CODA), education of the Deaf, the difference between Polish Sign Language and a si…

…om: “lockdown” (Collins Dictionary), USA: “Covid” (American Dialect Society), “pandemic” (Merriam Webster), Germany: “Corona-Pandemie”, Switzerland (German-speaking): “Systemrelevant” (systemically relevant), Switzerland (French-speaking): “Coronagraben” (corona divide), Austria: “Babyelefant” (baby elephant)….

…covery in 1911 there has been a race to find a material which works at ambient conditions. So far the record at ambient pressure is a material based on oxides of copper that need to be cooled “only” to -140 ℃.   Now, a team of researchers led by Prof. Wojciech Grochala from the University of Warsaw and an international team from Poland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Italy, USA and Slovak Republic, have come up with a new candidate. They argue that rep…

…er, AgF2 is extremely reactive, and preparation of nanotubes requires the use of high pressure, so the prospect for applications is not certain. We must first learn how to prepare nanotubes at ambient pressure – he adds.   The research was published in Dalton Transactions and highlighted by internet chemistry portal chemistryviews First Metal Fluoride Nanowire. Further details were published in a separate contribution in Inorganic Chemistry….

…t be obtained from either water or hydrocarbons. Moreover, H2 is a gas at ambient conditions and it must be either compressed or liquefied to be stored as a fuel tank for mobile applications. This is why there is an intense ongoing research worldwide on storing hydrogen in the solid state, with the target hydrogen content of 7.5–9.0% by weight.   Metal borohydrides are chemical compounds which consist of metal(s), boron and hydrogen, and they usua…