Analysis

This year's Nobel Prize is certainly remarkable. It shows how important in the modern world are the methods of organic synthesis, allowing the production of new materials and their applications, in particular in biological systems. It has been awarded to organic chemists who are not afraid to take up new challenges and cross borders, working on the border of chemistry and biology.

In May 2022, a collaboration between an artist collective and Danish technology company Mindfuture resulted in the creation of the Computer Lars project - involving artificial intelligence and a chatbot imitating a human. It has given rise to the Det Sintetiske Parti (DSP) - the Synthetic Party, which is preparing to run in the upcoming 2023 parliamentary elections.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists working on experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics. As set out in the verdict of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the prize was awarded "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing violations of Bell's inequality and pioneering quantum computing".

The events of recent weeks related to the Oder River environmental disaster have prompted deeper reflection not only on the state of the water environment, but also on the state of monitoring of surface water bodies (SWBs), which are the basic unit of water management.

Metaverse has recently become a very popular buzzword thanks to Mark Zuckerberg's interview. The Facebook CEO presented the concept of the metaverse project, which is to seamlessly connect the Internet with virtual reality.

Professor Filip Chybalski's commentary on the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was awarded to David Card "for empirical contributions to economics of labour" and Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens "for methodological contributions to causal analyses".

Prof. Łukasz Albrecht's comment on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was awarded to David MacMillan and Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis":

The ideal solution would be to transform the entire production and consumption system in such a way as to completely eliminate the concept of waste from it.

Such an interdisciplinary approach is also presented by researchers from Pensions & Intergenerational Relations (PIR) Research Group, an international research group at the Faculty of Management and Process Engineering at Lodz University of Technology.