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.
22. 02. 2024

The CAS visited by chess grandmaster and Russian opposition activist Kasparov 

Garry Kasparov, the world-renowned chess grandmaster and former world chess champion, Russian political activist in exile and opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime, was received today at the Czech Academy of Sciences by its President, Eva ...
21. 02. 2024

The CAS will support scientists whose research is at risk in their home country

War, persecution, and human rights violations threaten scientists not only in Ukraine, but in other parts of the world as well. ...
20. 02. 2024

Unravelling the mystery of biodiversity – with a little help from the fruit fly

While there are 2.1 million described animal species in the world, about one quarter of them face extinction. Which ecological communities will survive? Are those with a more diverse constitution more resilient? ...
06. 02. 2024

The Academy hosted a two-day UK–Czech Republic Bilateral International Meeting

Discussed topics included sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation in the age of climate change, and epigenetic therapy for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and diseases of civilisation. ...
05. 02. 2024

Anthropologist Viktor Černý in search of modern human origins

More than 300,000 years ago, the anatomically modern human emerged in Africa. From there, Homo sapiens migrated to Asia and Europe. For more than 25 years, anthropologist Viktor Černý has been exploring the genetic traces of the modern human. ...
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 ...
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