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Scientists want to use bacteria to recycle important metals

While most people associate bacteria with disease, many can be useful, not only for human health but also for protecting the environment. Biochemists from Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science, together with their Austrian colleagues, want to use bacteria to help solve the problem of metals that accumulate...

17 May 2021

Global Staff Mobility

The Global Staff Mobility programme aims to expand staff mobility opportunities outside of the current grant programmes (e.g., Erasmus+). Both academic and non-academic staff of MU can participate in this programme and spend up to 14 days at a foreign university (non-academic institutions are not supported)...

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...