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New fossils from the Holy Cross Mountains revise the view on the evolution and ecology of Triassic horseshoe crabs

15 04 2026

Mgr Jonatan Audycki (lead author) and dr habili. Kenneth De Baets, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology are co-authors of a publication describing a new horseshoe crab genus with an ...

Activin A as a regulator of urogenital system development in mammals

13 04 2026

mgr Eliza Winek, dr hab. Katarzyna Szczepańska, dr Lidia Wolińska-Nizioł, and dr hab. Aneta Suwińska from the Department of Embryology at the Institute of Developmental Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty ...

Rapid adaptation and extinction of Arabidopsis in a changing climate

07 04 2026

Biologists from the Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, Dr Agnieszka Rudak, and Dr hab. Maciej Wódkiewicz, are co-authors of an article on the rapid adaptation of plants to changing ...

A New, Rapid, and Accurate Method for Identifying Mycobacterium kansasii Complex Species

03 04 2026

Researchers from the Department of Medical Microbiology –Paulina J. Wałpuska, Dr. Zofia Bakuła, Katarzyna Rastawicka, and Dr. Tomasz Jagielski – have developed a new method for identifying non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) ...

How sleep loss alters brain function: New research published in Sleep

31 03 2026

A Polish-French team of researchers, including Patrycja Ściślewska from the Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of Experimental Zoology, has published the results of a groundbreaking study on the effects of ...

The role of fungi in the decomposition of Canadian goldenrod shoots

27 03 2026

Scientists from the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Kamil Kisło, Marta Wrzosek (Botanic Garden), and Marcin T. Mazurkiewicz, and Patryk Czortek (Białowieża Geobotanical Station), together with researchers from the ...

Diversity in a drop: what determines the diversity of nectar-associated fungi?

23 03 2026

Scientists from the University of Warsaw Botanical Garden, Kamil Kisło and Marcin Mazurkiewicz (first authors), Bartłomiej Starzyński, Prof. Marcin Zych and Katarzyna Roguz, PhD (corresponding author), and Mikołaj Wołącewicz from ...

Prof. Bogdan Jaroszewicz, co-author of a publication in Nature

20 03 2026

Prof. Bogdan Jaroszewicz from the Białowieża Geobotanical Station is a co-author of a publication about the way climate change affects the species composition of plants in European ecosystems. The paper, ...

Can fossil burrows of lungfish help determine climatic conditions in the Late Triassic?

13 03 2026

Dr Wojciech Pawlak (first author) and Dr Mateusz Tałanda are co-authors of the scientific paper entitled “High-latitude dipnoan aestivation burrows suggest seasonal aridity for early dinosaur ecosystems in the Late ...