Institute of Physics received two of four awards of the Technology Agency in 2015
16 Nov 2015
The prestigious prizes of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic for the best projects accomplished in applied research in 2015 were awarded at the official ceremony in the New building of the National Museum in Prague on October 22nd, 2015. Among four award-winning projects there were two projects that included teams from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The Czech Academy of Sciences 2014-2015: Selected Research Results
21 Oct 2015
The Czech Academy of Sciences has issued a report accounting selected research results achieved by its scientific institutes in all research areas in 2014 and in early 2015. It outlines its research activities, as well as goals of the new research centres and facilities of the CAS and its new Strategy AV21, the main aim of which is to perform top level multilateral interdisciplinary research reflecting the needs of contemporary society. The book (printed version in PDF) documents the CAS´s efforts to transfer research findings into practical outputs and its co-operation with partners in the industrial sphere, it presents the CAS´s co-operation with various institutions on international, regional and local levels and mentions some of the major social events and anniversaries marked by the CAS in 2014 and 2015.
American psychologist Prof. Philip G. Zimbardo received the highest award of the Czech Academy of Sciences
18 Sep 2015
Three professors from the Czech Academy of Sciences on the List of the Most Cited Scientists of the World
18 Sep 2015
Conference on Democracy (not only) in Muslim Countries
17 Sep 2015
New possibilities of imaging molecules with atomic force microscope
6 Aug 2015
Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) together with colleagues from Osaka University in Japan presented in the journal Nature Communications [1] a new method that significantly advances the current possibility for atomic force microscopes to image chemical structures of individual molecules. Recent developments in scanning microscopy enable us to resolve the chemical structure of individual molecules deposited on surfaces. The sub-molecular resolution of individual molecules opens up entirely new possibilities in the study of physical and chemical properties of molecular nanostructures. However, it was possible to carry out these measurements only at very low temperatures close to absolute zero with specially modified microscope tips.
Chile and Canary Islands selected for the construction of the largest gamma-ray observatory
21 Jul 2015
The Legacy of Charlemagne
30 Jun 2015
Hunting for insects with a crane: forest ecology research on six continents will be spearheaded by the Czech Academy of Sciences
22 Jun 2015
How would forests entirely devoid of insects look like? And why most of insect species prefer life in tropical jungles to temperate zone forests? Questions asked by a curious child, perhaps, but also by international research team from the Czech Academy of Sciences, recently supported by the European Research Council to study forests all over the world, and build a new canopy crane in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea.
International conference “The Present and Future of Institutions of Non-University Research”
28 May 2015
Non-university research has a future
The future of non-university research and its connection with higher education institutes, industrial research and business were the main themes of an international conference that the Czech Academy of Sciences organized on Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at its headquarters. The roundtable discussions were attended by the elite of European science – Martin Stratmann (president of the most important German scientific institution, the Max Planck Society), Peter Haslinger (director of the Herder-Institute, Leibniz Association), Soren Wiesenfeldt (director of research at the Helmholtz Association), Ed Noort (vice-president of ALLEA – All European Academies) and other guests from Italy, Great Britain and the USA.
