"DiPOLE 100" (alias "Bivoj"), a fully diode pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) designed and constructed at STFC's Central Laser Facility (CLF) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, was delivered under contract to the HiLASE Centre in the Czech Republic. ...

“Mathematics is especially beautiful. Absolutely perfect in the sense that its results are entirely precisely formulated and completely exactly proved. Mathematics speaks of things that are very abstract and exist in some strange way. ...

The consideration of gender in science and research is ever more frequently devoted attention not only among scientists but also in the media. One of the pioneers of so-called gender medicine is Israeli professor Marek Glezerman, whose book came out in July Gender Medicine – The Groundbreaking ...

On 15–16 December 2016, an International Interdisciplinary Conference organized on the occasion of the unlived 80th birthday of Václav Havel entitled Václav Havel – playwright, dissident, politician was held in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the CR. ...

The delegates of the Academy Assembly of the CAS almost unanimously propsed Prof. Eva Zažímalová for appointment to the post of president of the Academy of Sciences for the period of 2017–2021. ...

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. ...