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30. 10. 2026

Water is not enough for settlement. Stone was equally important

Desert settlement models have long been based on the assumption that where there was water, there were people. According to a new study published in the prestigious journal Nature, however, stone was an equally important resource. ...

26. 10. 2026

A / Magazine: Toxins, languages, and lightning on Jupiter

They have been found in the snow on the peak of Mount Everest and in the depths of the Mariana Trench. We drink them in our water, and they rain down on us. And because they essentially don’t decompose, they accumulate in the environment. ...

21. 10. 2026

ERC-funded CLOSER Project Highlights the Middle East and North Africa Region

How do social divisions shape political parties and political systems in the post-Ottoman space? How different are the social and political cleavages in the Middle East and North Africa region from those in Europe, and how were they influenced ...

05. 10. 2026

Bernard Bolzano: An Inconvenient Genius Ahead of His Time

Czech, German, Austrian or Italian? Preacher, philosopher, or mathematician? Prague's Bernard Bolzano, born exactly 245 years ago, was all these things. ...

01. 10. 2026

Our Health in the Hands of AI: How to Regulate It and What to Watch Out For?

Two thirds of Czech hospitals are already using artificial intelligence tools – most frequently for diagnostics and evaluating imaging methods. The role of AI has grown exponentially in recent years, and understandably so. ...

29. 09. 2026

CAS condemns attack on National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The Academy Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences strongly condemns yesterday’s barbaric attack by the Russian Federation on the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv and joins the statement issued by All European ...

25. 09. 2026

New CAS Program Already Has First ERC Grant Winners to Its Credit

Three of the six ERC Starting Grants awarded to the Czech Republic this year went to researchers at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS). ...

03. 09. 2026

Three researchers from the Czech Academy receive prestigious ERC grants

Cellular memory, modern OLED displays, and Chinese medicine – these are the topics studied by the researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences who have received this year's ERC Starting Grants. ...

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