Heavy metals in plants, living organisms and in the environment. This currently highly topical research will be performed by top-ranking German scientist Hendrik Küpper and his team at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) in Ceske Budejovice. ...

The European Commission has officially announced the results of the first ever Teaming initiative under the Horizon 2020 framework programme. This new scheme is aiming at spreading the impacts and benefits of the research and development evenly between regions of the Member States and their ...

Scientists from the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Czech Academy of Sciences observed a chemical transformation of individual molecules on silver surface and demonstrated chirality transfer during the reaction. ...

On Tuesday 1st November 2016 Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Bělobrádek, Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, met with Czech and foreign academics and industrial researchers. ...

The Czech Academy of Sciences has issued a report accounting selected research results achieved by its scientific institutes in all research areas in 2015 and in early 2016. ...

A study in Nature by an international team of biologists shows that the ability to self-fertilize helps plants to spread around the world.

Urban mobility, CO2 capture and storage, integrated photonics and smart systems for personalized health-care were the four themes of interdisciplinary symposium EU-US Frontiers of Engineering that was hold from 17 to 19 October 2016 at Aalto University near Helsinki, Finland. ...

Scientists in the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry in Prague have introduced a new experimental technique which enables studies of biomolecules in vacuum, surrounded by just few molecules of water. ...