Alarming increase in soil drought in a third of the world, researchers find
Soil moisture has been declining significantly on one third of our planet over the last four decades.
29. 01. 2024

New Strategy AV21 programmes to explore space, rare fungi, and our identities

Over the next five years, three new Strategy AV21 programmes of the CAS will help decipher the unknown variables of our world: Identities in a World of Wars and Crises, Fungi – New Threats and Opportunities, and Space for Humankind, which builds ...
17. 01. 2024

Czechs part of mission set to explore why Venus and Earth evolved differently

It may be Earth’s similarly sized neighbour, but not even the toughest organism on our planet could survive there. Venus is sometimes called Earth’s infernal twin. ...
10. 01. 2024

Insect wings may have evolved from gills, scientists hypothesize

How did insects get their wings? A still unsolved mystery of evolution. Despite years of research, it is not entirely clear which body structure insect wings actually evolved from and what their original function was prior to being able to ...
08. 01. 2024

Radomír Pánek is the new General Assembly Chair of the EUROfusion consortium

Radomír Pánek, Director of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, has been elected the new General Assembly Chair of EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy. ...
05. 01. 2024

Fun can be had even in the molecular biology of cancer dept, researcher says

Her entire scientific career revolves around cancer. In an ironic twist of fate, the diagnosis recently came into Veronika Vymetálková’s private life as well. ...
02. 01. 2024

Alarming increase in soil drought in a third of the world, researchers find

At the start of each new year, people usually look to the future to speculate what it will bring. Experts from CzechGlobe have looked back into the past, however, to map the drying of the planet’s soil. ...
22. 12. 2023

Academy Council of the CAS statement on the tragic events at the Faculty of ...

The Czech Academy of Sciences is deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic events that occurred on 21 December 2023 at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.
08. 12. 2023

Petr Baldrian: The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) has come a long way

The Czech Science Foundation (Grantová agentura ČR) is our most important institution that provides earmarked public funding for basic research. ...
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