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13 May 2021

Parasitic plants. Helpers in the fight against plant invasions and expansions?

The word parasite usually evokes negative associations and emotions in humans. It is a kind of bandit that hurts everyone living around. The word half-parasite can then raise doubts and suspicions that it is something “undead”, somehow halfway there. But not everything has to be black and white. Even...

10 May 2021

I was taught that when you start doing something, it should be done properly, on time and seen through to the end.

“ In the early 1990s, it was believed that it was better if no one entered the garden s , then no one would want anything or steal anything. I wanted to change a ll that ,” says Magdaléna Chytrá in the interview.

7 May 2021

Join the Open Science Roadshow at our faculty on May 18, 2021

Do you publish? Do you produce research data? Then, come and get acquainted with the upcoming MUNI Open Science Strategy for the years 2022–2028 and discuss its possible form.

6 May 2021

Biotechnological discovery of Brno scientists patented in Singapore

Fibroblast growth factor FGF2-STAB, which was developed at MUNI, has now been patented, not just in Europe but also in Singapore, with patent proceedings also ongoing in a number of other countries. The patent is shared between Masaryk University and the university spin-off ‘Enantis’, which is in charge...

3 May 2021

The same point of view: MU Faculty of Science then and now – the area in front of the greenhouses

The year 1997 saw the rebuilding of the so -called ‘ plant system ’, now situated i n a regular series of flower beds in the middle of the garden. The ‘plant system’ is an example of the systematic division of plants, where plants are placed in flower beds according to their famil y relationships . The beds...

29 Apr 2021

Conversations about the Universe - part 6

In the sixth edition of ‘Conversations about the universe’, Norbert Werner and Samuel Kováčik from the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, discuss a novelty about the unique discovery of medium-mass black hole detected by a gamma-ray burst. (In...

28 Apr 2021

Anthropologists from the Faculty of Science at MU have begun a unique project focused on the body shape and composition of the Czech population

Earlier this year, experts from our Institute of Anthropology began a new project entitled A.D.A.P.T. (Anthropological Database of Body Proportions). Its main aim is to examine the body shape and composition of the Czech population and to design tools that will help record, evaluate and subsequently...

28 Apr 2021

New coronavirus mutations? Czechs are gaining immunity, but scientists say that further development is poorly predicted

The number of vaccinated people and those with natural immunity is rapidly increasing. But the coronavirus SARS-CoV2, according to virologists, has not yet said its last word. It is still spreading, mutating and may surprise with new, more dangerous variants that scientists are trying to follow. Now,...

27 Apr 2021

Virtual learning of Geography

Instead of filling in the names of rivers on a blind map, students will look directly at the watercourse. That is, in a virtual environment. Such a project is being created by a group of experts from Masaryk University in Brno. They want to introduce the system into school practice within four...

27 Apr 2021

Jiří Grygar: I also used popularization in my own research

Astronomer, astrophysicist, alumnus of the Faculty of Science MU and MFF UK and popularizer of science Jiří Grygar influenced several generations. How has popularization changed, will he be surprised by something else after so many years and what advice does he follow? These and other questions were...

26 Apr 2021

I experiment on myself as scientists in the 19th century

Read the interview with Petr Ryšávka, a Brno scientists and a graduate of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. (In Czech only.)

26 Apr 2021

I'm attracted to challenges. Protein engineering and working in a spin-off company offer plenty of them.

Radka Chaloupková studied Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (MU), and defended her Doctoral thesis in the field of Biochemistry. She has completed two foreign research internships in Great Britain, one at the University of Warwick and the other at Diamond Light Source Ltd....