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On June 3–4, the General Assembly of ALLEA – the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities – will take place in Copenhagen. Part of the program on June 3 is open to the public and can be attended online.

We are pleased to announce that the article by Prof. Mariusz Białecki entitled Simple Rules of a Discrete Stochastic Process Leading to Catalan-like Recurrences published in the March issue of the scientific journal Algorithms (MDPI) has been highlighted as the title story.

On 12 May, a lecture was held at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, given by Professor Donald Dingwell, a world-renowned scientist and Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Munich.

On May 10, the 28th Science Picnic of Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre took place at the PGE National Stadium in Warsaw. GeoPlanet – the Earth and Planetary Research Center – was proud to be among the participants.

During February-March 2025, a seismic swarm occurred near the Santorini-Anydros-Amorgos area, with thousands of earthquakes being recorded with a maximum magnitude of M5.2.

On April 4, 2025, the public defense of the doctoral dissertation by Mr. Tanmay Keluskar took place at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. The dissertation focused on the evolution of the continental crust in the Saglek Block in northern Labrador (Canada), one of the oldest preserved fragments of Earth’s crust. The research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Monika A. Kusiak.

Early this morning, at 06:20:54 UTC, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck Southeast Asia. The epicenter was located just 17 km from the city of Mandalay in Myanmar.