public non-university research institution, which comprises a system of scientific institutes. It conducts its activities in accord with Act No. 283/1992 Coll., On the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), and other legal regulations. Research conducted by the ASCR endeavours to advance knowledge on an international scale while however respecting the current needs of Czech society. The supreme autonomous body of the ASCR is the Academy Assembly. The executive body of the ASCR is the Academy Council with the President of the ASCR at its head. Its permanent advisory body is the Council for Sciences, which deals with the scientific policy of the ASCR. These all-academic bodies are always elected for four-year periods.
Brain Awareness Week
27 Feb 2014
Every March, the European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB) coordinates Brain Awareness Week, when hundreds of public events in dozens of countries celebrate progress in brain research and inform the general public about their overall results. In the Czech Republic, Brain Awareness Week activities are organized by the Institute of Experimental Medicine ASCR and by Czech Society of Neuroscience, by the Centre of Neuroscience and by the Centre of Administration and Operations ASCR.
Magnetic inside but not on outside
3 Feb 2014
A new theory explaining the origin of hydrocarbon molecules in interstellar space
22 Jan 2014
New Nikon Centre of Excellence in Super Resolution Microscopy
22 Jan 2014
20 Years of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
4 Dec 2013
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, there was a press conference in the Prague headquarters of the most important Czech scientific institution. The history of the Academy of Sciences of the CR with an emphasis its essential role in society, breakthrough moments and main developmental stages was first raised by its current president, Prof. Jiří Drahoš. It was then commemorated by his three predecessors in the leading post of the ASCR – Prof. Rudolf Zahradník, Prof. Helena Illnerová and Prof. Václav Pačes.
Epigenetic diversity increases the productivity and stability of plant populations
28 Nov 2013
Humanity is dependent on natural ecosystems as sources of food, but they also provide other essential services. The preservation of biological diversity is a fundamental challenge for contemporary environmental protection. Recent research has found that intraspecific diversity plays an equally vital role in the functioning and stability of ecosystems as interspecies diversity. Intraspecific diversity was until now always attributed to phenotypic and functional diversity of individuals, secured thanks to the variability of DNA. Nevertheless, the phenotype is controlled only by the base sequence of nucleotides in the DNA, but is also controlled by epigenetic variation.
Why does the cuckoo win the battle with its host?
25 Nov 2011
Czech Astronomers are the first to have captured the optical afterglow of a gamma burst
20 Nov 2013
On 30 October at 10 PM, a so-called gamma burst flared in the constellation Aquarius. It was recorded in space by the satellite Swift. Astronomers from the Group of Astrophysics of High Energies Group of the Stellar Section of the Astronomical Institute of the ASCR started monitoring it only 41 seconds after the placements of the optic telescope at the observatory in Ondřejov and were so the first in the world. They are gigantic energetic flashes in the area of gamma radiation, which energy comparable with the emission of the Sun for its entire lifespan is released over a few seconds or tens of seconds. The distance of the object in space was calculated as 9 billion light years.
National Prize of Česká hlava (Czech Intellect) 2013 awarded
18 Nov 2013
Representatives of the Academy of Sciences of the CR were again successful in the prestigious scientific competition Česká hlava (Czech Intellect). The National Prize of the Government of the CR Česká hlava 2013 was obtained by the outstanding Czech historian prof. PhDr. František Šmahel, DrSc., dr.h.c. mult., from the Institute of Philosophy of the ASCR - Centre of Medieval Studies. The Prize of the Company Kapsch for Invention was taken by Ing. Ilona Müllerová, DrSc., from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR for long-term and systematic research in the area of electron microscopy and the Prize of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR was received for his scientific work within his doctoral study programme by Mgr. Ondřej Maršálek, PhD.
Prof. H. Tlaskalova-Hogenova, ASCR, key-note speaker at 7th Annual International SHARE Symposium in Denmark
6 Nov 2013
Copenhagen 6 November 2013: The 7th annual SHARE Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark on 6 November 2013 has the pleasure of welcoming two keynote speakers. In the morning Professor Bente Finsen, University of Southern Denmark, gives a presentation on “Understanding disease mechanisms in human neurological disorders through studies of mice”, and in the afternoon Professor Helena Tlaskalova-Hogenova, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, gives a presentation about “The role of microbiota in the immune system development and chronic disease”.
Week of Science and Technology of the ASCR – A festival fascinated by the world
30 Oct 2013
The largest science festival in the Czech Republic Week of Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the CR was ceremonially opened today at the headquarters of the ASCR in Prague with the attendance of President of the ASCR Prof. Jiří Drahoš and Lord Mayor of the Capital City of Prague RNDR. Tomáš Hudeček. This, already the 13th annual festival of successful scientific shows, whose popularity is still growing, bears the subtitle Fascination with the World. It is taking place on 1–15 November 2013 and its programme is filled with more than 500 events scattered all over the Czech Republic.
New approach to preparation of highly tunable microwave dielectrics
21 Oct 2013
“World Development Report 2014” panel discussion at CERGE-EI
10 Oct 2013
