Julius Lukeš elected to the US National Academy of Sciences3. 5. 2024 Julius Lukeš of the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, CAS, was elected among international members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States. The NAS is a private...
Interview: The Cure4Aqua Success Story with Ivona Mladineo3. 5. 2024 Coordinated by the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Institute of Parasitology), Project Cure4Aqua—entitled "Curing EU Aquaculture by Co-Creating Health and Welfare Innovations"—was...
Two new research teams focus on plant evolution and development30. 4. 2024 Two new research groups has been established at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology of the BC CAS. The first is headed by Lenka Caisová, whose research focuses on plant terrestrialization. The...
Searching for mammals in the mountains of Papua New Guinea27. 3. 2024 The New Guinea region is known for being one of the most species-rich places in the world. Located north of Australia and south-east of Asia, New Guinea’s topographical complexity and geographic...
Frozen behaviors in amber fossils – how to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites 6. 3. 2024 Scientists found evidence that termites which lived millions of years ago engaged in the same mating behaviors described in their living relatives today. Approximately 40 million years ago two...
TOP 2 % of scientists worldwide9. 1. 2024 24 scientists from the Biology Centre CAS are ranked among the top 2 % of the world's most cited scientific authors. The list of the best scientific authors is published annually by Elsevier...
Jan Frouz and Jaroslava Frouzová won the Jaroslav Jirsa Award for the best textbook of the year8. 1. 2024 Jan Frouz and Jaroslava Frouzová won the Jaroslav Jirsa Award for the best textbook of the year in the science and mathematics-physics category.
Insect wings may have evolved from gills3. 1. 2024 How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure...
Lake Fish Telemetry Group: Movement Ecology Thematic Series and Editorial1. 12. 2023 Five years since it commenced, the Lake Fish Telemetry Group research project–which was funded with support from the Alternet Multi-Site Research (MSR) initiative–continues to achieve new...
Ants are hungry for sugar and oil. An international team led by Czech scientists revealed insect tastes in the remote forests of tropical mountains3. 11. 2023 The decline of insect populations has attracted worldwide interest in times of global warming and changing environment, but we have only rudimentary knowledge about the biodiversity and abundance...
