The secret lives of animals in Prague

Author : Pavla Hubálková
Photo: Aerofilms, Ondřej Sedláček
Friday, 26 August 2022 11:53

If you want to experience beautiful nature, head to Prague. You read that right. The Czech metropolis is a unique place in Europe when it comes to the number of species diversity of plants and animals. Don't believe it? The new film and book Planeta Praha will convince you.

Egyptologists discover tomb of mercenary commander

Author : Pavla Hubálková
Photo: Petr Košárek, CU archive
Thursday, 21 July 2022 11:09

An archaeological team from the Czech Institute of Egyptology discovered the tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary during fieldwork in Egypt, in the spring of 2022. Although it was already looted in antiquity, the site is neverthless invaluable.

Podcast: Increasing interest rates to fight high inflation

Author : Katarína Stehlíková
Photo: Talking Economics podcast
Monday, 06 June 2022 13:21

What are the main causes of high inflation? Will the inflation go back to lower levels? Katarína Stehlíková asked economist Dana Hájková these questions and more in the latest episode of Talking Economics, produced and recorded at CERGE-EI.

Czech study in Nature shows how to improve vaccination rates

Photo: Vladimír Šigut, Martin Pinkas
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:49

"Many think that only about half of medical doctors believe in vaccines against Covid-19. In fact, it's 90 percent! Communicating this is a simple way of increasing vaccination rates," summarize Michal Bauer and Julie Chytilová, co-authors of a new study in Nature.

High school students can sign up for Particle Prague 2022

Author : Jitka Jiřičková
Photo: Czech Physical Society, Shutterstock
Monday, 25 April 2022 12:54

Particle Prague 2022 is a five-day event offering high school students a week in the world of particle physics, co-organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The event will be held in September but the deadline for registration is 30 April.

Martin Kozák from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant. It will go towards research of new electron microscopy techniques that will allow capturing the motion of electrons in matter.

Grant boosts study of new materials

Photo: Martin Pinkas
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 08:19

The physicist Tim Verhagen comes from the Netherlands but has been working in the Czech Republic for eight years, currently at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. He has just received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his research into new materials – “2D-sandwiches”.

Historian: Belarus is in the grip of a new 'Normalisation'

Author : Helena Zdráhalová
Photo: Martin Pinkas, Vladimír Šigut, Shutterstock
Friday, 18 March 2022 07:19

“It has to be talked about, even though personally it hurts a lot...” Belarusian-born historian Alena Marková from the Faculty of Humanities warns that the ‘normalisation’ now in Belarus is similar to Czechoslovakia after 1968.

The role small states can play

Author : Pavla Hubálková
Photo: Tomáš Weiss's personal archive, Shutterstock
Monday, 21 February 2022 13:43

Tomáš Weiss from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University is the editor of a new book on the influence of small states in international security. “It may be interesting for Czech readers that the book devotes several chapters to the Czech Republic,” he says.

How excess vegetation burning changed Australia

Author : Marcela Uhlíková
Photo: Petr Kuneš, Shutterstock
Friday, 18 February 2022 11:01

“We really had no idea how big a role the Aborigines played,” say Petr Kuneš. An associate professor at CU, Dr. Kuneš was a member an international team that examined how colonisation changed vegetation management in Australia.

Celebrating women in science on 11 February

Author : Pavla Hubálková
Photo: Vladimír Šigut, Hynek Glos, CU archive
Friday, 11 February 2022 15:59

Friday, 11 February, marks the seventh International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrating the role of women in the scientific world and promoting gender equality. What do women scientists at Charles University enjoy the most about their work and what kind of challenges did they face?

Natural language generation research wins ERC grant

Author : Pavla Hubálková
Photo: Tomáš Rubín, Vladimír Šigut
Friday, 14 January 2022 09:20

“Our goal is to create a universal natural language generator that will be able to learn from only a few examples and will not make mistakes,” says Ondřej Dušek from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. His work landed him a prestigious ERC grant.

The Herbarium: An archive of plant diversity

Author : Marcela Uhlíková
Photo: Michal Novotný, Petr Jan Juračka
Monday, 10 January 2022 16:39

At present, the Faculty of Science of Charles University boasts a herbarium containing almost 2.5 million items. “Such herbaria (or collections of pressed and dried plant or flower samples) are living archives of plant biodiversity,” says botanist Patrik Mráz.

The year in science at Charles University

Author : Pavla Hubálková, Martin Rychlík
Photo: Forum, CU archives, NASA
Friday, 31 December 2021 12:44

The year 2021 saw no end to the pandemic, which brought numerous complications, including for scientists. Nevertheless, scientific research continued with positive results. We offer a look back at science at Charles University over the course of the year.

Karel Raška to receive order of T.G. Masaryk

Author : Ivan Raška, Marcela Uhlíková
Photo: Raška family archives
Monday, 27 December 2021 14:44

The founder of modern Czechoslovak epidemiology, Karel Raška, who contributed to the worldwide eradication of smallpox, is to receive the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, First Class, in memoriam. His son, Professor Ivan Raška, writes about his father's contributions and career.

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