ERC grants for 3 experts from the Czech Academy of Sciences
An effective storage of solar energy, reactions of cells to stress, new strategies against cancer. Those ideas won the ERC Starting Grant.
03. 01. 2022

On the way to the Sun and Jupiter

It has already been 23 months since the Solar Orbiter spacecraft left the Earth. Now, it enters its main scientific phase and soon, it will observe the Sun and its characteristics from a close distance. ...
20. 12. 2021

Hidden warriors. Women who were actively involved in World War II

World War II also had its heroines. In the British Army Auxiliary Corps, Czechoslovakian women served not only as cooks or office workers, but also as drivers, meteorologists, interpreters, armorers and convoy commanders. ...
07. 12. 2021

Perfumes from the days of Cleopatra might be re-created

How did the ancient people obtain, combine and preserve the scents of plants? What perfumes did they make of them? Although only little remains of the ancient knowledge, a scientist wants to experimentally reconstruct the process of preparing ...
01. 12. 2021

Czech scientists: the first to observe sigma-holes

Czech scientists succeeded in confirming the presence of sigma-holes in atoms of halogen elements, which until now existed only in theory. They used their own improved method of scanning electron microscopy. ...
22. 11. 2021

Be careful with releasing endangered lynx, warn Czech scientists

The recent release of 52 lynx into the Polish wild does not meet international criteria, according to Czech scientists and conservationists who point that out. ...
11. 11. 2021

Scientists deciphered a specific gene that influences normal seed development

A plant does not always grow as it should, and sometimes, the problem is right at the start - in the seed. After years of research, scientists have found a new mechanism that influences seed production and quality in plants. ...
08. 11. 2021

The Academy invited the public to experiments, lectures and exhibitions

Seven days full of the best of what the Czech Academy of Sciences does. The first year of the science festival called The Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences ended on Sunday, 7th November. ...
03. 11. 2021

The origin of domestic horses uncovered

A decades-old enigma is now answered: people domesticated modern horses about 4000 years ago in the Pontic-Caspian steppes. ...
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