Rethinking Screen Time: New Research Emphasizes ‘Quality over Quantity’14. 5. 2024 In recent years, it has become clear that our constant usage of digital devices can affect our physical health, our social wellbeing, and potentially even our brains. So, how much time should we be...
One Nature project among the 10 best LIFE projects for 20238. 5. 2024 The Czech One Nature project was named one of the top ten LIFE projects from across the EU in 2023, not only for its successful delivery of its objectives, which contribute to nature and landscape...
Male or female? We've discovered the genetic mechanism that determines sex development in butterflies3. 5. 2024 Scientists of the Institute of Entomology, BC CAS, in collaboration with University of Liverpool have found the genetic mechanism which determines whether individuals of the butterfly species...
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.
