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28 Apr 2021

New coronavirus mutations? Czechs are gaining immunity, but scientists say that further development is poorly predicted

The number of vaccinated people and those with natural immunity is rapidly increasing. But the coronavirus SARS-CoV2, according to virologists, has not yet said its last word. It is still spreading, mutating and may surprise with new, more dangerous variants that scientists are trying to follow. Now,...

27 Apr 2021

Virtual learning of Geography

Instead of filling in the names of rivers on a blind map, students will look directly at the watercourse. That is, in a virtual environment. Such a project is being created by a group of experts from Masaryk University in Brno. They want to introduce the system into school practice within four...

27 Apr 2021

Jiří Grygar: I also used popularization in my own research

Astronomer, astrophysicist, alumnus of the Faculty of Science MU and MFF UK and popularizer of science Jiří Grygar influenced several generations. How has popularization changed, will he be surprised by something else after so many years and what advice does he follow? These and other questions were...

26 Apr 2021

I experiment on myself as scientists in the 19th century

Read the interview with Petr Ryšávka, a Brno scientists and a graduate of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. (In Czech only.)

26 Apr 2021

I'm attracted to challenges. Protein engineering and working in a spin-off company offer plenty of them.

Radka Chaloupková studied Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (MU), and defended her Doctoral thesis in the field of Biochemistry. She has completed two foreign research internships in Great Britain, one at the University of Warwick and the other at Diamond Light Source Ltd....

23 Apr 2021

Eighteen kilos of clay from Antarctica. Polar scinetist Jana Smolíková describes what can be read from the ice

She returned from Antarctica a month ago. And even though Jana Smolíková has been there three times, she would like to return again. "It's easy to catch an Antarctic virus and fall in love with it. And I caught it too," says one of two women of this year's polar expedition of Masaryk University to Mendel's...

22 Apr 2021

How do neurolipids trigger degeneration?

Alzheimer's disease - an incurable disease that affects not only old age. PharmDr. Zdenek Spacil, Ph.D., studies at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University in Brno changes in the composition of membrane lipids, which precede the onset of neurodegeneration and the development of Alzheimer's dementia...

22 Apr 2021

The 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is Open!

The competition for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for the 2022-2023 academic year is launched.

Lack of collaboration between science and politics is harming the planet

PFAS substances – water and soil contaminants that will stay in the environment forever and their use is steadily growing. Endocrine disruptors that interfere with the human as well as the animal hormone system, causing various diseases including diabetes, obesity, and male infertility. Also, the by...

20 Apr 2021

Antarctica in uncertain times. Season 2021 at Johann Gregor Mendel Station

Read the National Geografic article (in Czech only).

16 Apr 2021

On tick hunting: Rovnost journal reporter in the footsteps of a biologist. Look what they found

Find a suitably long wooden stick, tie a piece of cloth on it, measure the temperature and go hunting. Biologist Alena Žákovská and her colleagues from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University go to collect ticks in selected places in Brno every week. Read the reportage (in Czech only).

12 Apr 2021

Space exploration will soon experience a big boom, says the new holder of the “Austrian Nobel Prize”

Slovak astrophysicist Norbert Werner had an extraordinary week in the second half of March. On Monday, he watched the launch of the Soyuz rocket carrying the first nanosatellite for detection of gamma-ray bursts into orbit, on which he participated in the development. Just four days later, he received...