environmental protection

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Analysis

The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize awarded by the Central Bank of Sweden are three American economists working on the impact of social organization on the wealth of nations. The awardees are Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. Why are some countries unexpectedly successful and others unexpectedly unsuccessful? Why is it that countries with such rich cultures as India and Mexico have consistently struggled economically, while Australia or Canada have been successful?

Commentary on Nobel Prize in chemistry

Analysis

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded half to David Baker ‘for the design of proteins using computational techniques’ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper ‘for the prediction of protein structure’.

The first Nobel Prize in computer science!

Analysis

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to American physicist John Joseph Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton. Although the prize was awarded in physics, the justification reads that it was based on ‘discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks’, which is clearly associated with computer science.

Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2024

Analysis

When it seemed that all functions of ribonucleic acids (RNA) had been studied and described, scientists discovered new types of RNA at the end of the 20th century that influence inheritance, development, and diseases. This year, the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of one of these new RNAs. According to the Nobel Committee's decision, two American biologists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, received the award in Physiology and Medicine for their "discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".

Cap… to tear off or not to tear off?

Fri, 02/23/2024 - 07:54

From July 1 of this year, the so-called SUP Directive (Single Use Plastics) will come into force in Poland. According to it, among other things, plastic caps must be an integral part of bottles. This is the result of the threats associated with the still large number of waste accumulating in the natural environment.

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TUL carbon footprin

Mon, 02/06/2023 - 12:57

dr Aleksandra Ziemińska-Stolarska

Lodz University of Technology has joined the UN-supported initiative "Race to Zero". This global campaign brings together enterprises, cities, as well as institutions from the education, finance and healthcare sectors, whose common goal is to create and implement transparent action plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

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Circular economy and life cycle analysis

Thu, 05/05/2022 - 13:38

dr Aleksandra Ziemińska-Stolarska

What do recently promoted slogans have in common: circular economy and life cycle analysis (LCA)? Dr Aleksandra Ziemińska-Stolarska writes about the current priorities of the EU's economic policy...

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Sustainable development, what is it?

Thu, 03/25/2021 - 11:39

dr Monika Malinowska-Olszowy, prof. PŁ

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.

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Energizing singlet - how to protect men from extinction

Thu, 11/12/2020 - 08:14

prof. dr hab. inż. Marta Gmurek

By introducing new products, which contain numerous chemical compounds, manufacturers are increasingly contributing to environmental pollution. If we continue to do so, there may be a drastic imbalance in the gender balance and, as a consequence, even the scenario of Sexmission by Juliusz Machulski may be fulfilled.

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Let's save water!

Fri, 10/02/2020 - 09:29

dr inż. Mirosław Imbierowicz

Access to sources of clean, healthy water is a prerequisite for the survival of any civilization and any human being, as well as any living organism. The role of water in human life cannot be overestimated, which is why a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly states that "the right to safe, clean drinking water and sanitation is a necessary right to enjoy life and human rights to the full".

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Hybrid cellulose fiber reinforced polymer composites

Fri, 07/03/2020 - 10:09

dr hab. inż. Anna Masek

The modern world is swamped with polymeric materials; there is hardly a single area of life where they aren't used.

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Smog monitoring drone made at TUL analyzes air over Łódź

Tue, 09/17/2019 - 11:50

dr inż. Robert Cichowicz

The quality of air and the level of its pollution are both linked both to natural emission sources as well as those related to human activity.

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Lodz University of Technology in ITER

Thu, 04/18/2019 - 11:04

Researchers from Lodz University of Technology are taking part in the international group working on the ITER project - an experimental thermonuclear reactor configured as a tokamak. Their research is geared towards generating safe and clean energy through controlled fusion reactions, which should be possible within the next 50 years.

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In defense of 'plastics'

Fri, 03/15/2019 - 08:10

prof. Maria Mucha

Polymers are a great discovery of the 20th century, which has been acknowledged by the many global prizes and awards. Why have they taken the global economy by storm?

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