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Research with potential for space technology earned a PhD student from FSI the Brno PhD Talent award

14 julyOnly 25 early-career researchers were awarded a three-year scholarship by the City of Brno under the Brno Ph.D. Talent grant. Among the recipients was PhD student Vít Šimara from the Institute of Mach

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We haven't reached worst point yet. Interview with Anton Firc, Joseph Fourier Prize awardee

10 julyThis year’s third-place winner of the Joseph Fourier Prize is Anton Firc, a PhD student at FIT BUT. His research focuses on the security implications of voice deepfakes. It’s an issue that concerns mo

Ideas and Discoveries

Awarded student Jiří Kabát uses an electron microscope to measure the temperature of nanoparticles

7 julyMeasuring the temperature of nanoparticles remains a problematic issue. In fact, there is no accurate and reliable procedure to detect heating, heat transfer and heat propagation on such a small scale

People

We need women in science, says Forbes award-winning scientist Michaela Vojníková

30 juneShe received the Fulbright Scholarship, won the Falling Walls Lab competition, was awarded the Brno Ph.D. Talent prize, and was named in the Slovak Forbes 30 under 30 list. Michaela Vojníková is one o

Ideas and Discoveries

Unique Damage Catalogue maps dozens of traffic accidents. It will help forensic experts and insurance companies.

19 june A practical guide to methods for documenting and analyzing vehicle damage, as well as a catalog of characteristic damage types. These are the outcomes of a project jointly developed by the Transport

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Ecodesign as a path to sustainability: Researchers from FCH BUT help Czech companies prepare for the future

5 juneUp to 80% of plastics in Europe still come from fossil sources, and most plastic packaging is never reused. How can research help Czech companies become more competitive and environmentally friendly?

Sport

She took up sport shooting when she was almost an adult. Today, as a student at the Faculty of Business and Management at BUT, she is a European champion.

17 september 2024Originally, she thought she was going to be a tennis player. However, thanks to her gun-loving father, Martina Matějková accidentally got into shooting sports. Although her coach initially turned her

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I still need a driving engine in my life, the former rugby player who today competes in bobsleigh says

28 april 2023From rugby to bobsleigh. This is how David Bureš's rather unconventional sports career could be described in a nutshell, which included, for example, swimming, takewon-do or badminton. He even played

The American dream through Czech eyes or a year studying in Nebraska

Journal | Dominik Klement | 17. prosince 2022

It will be about a year since I boarded a plane to Nebraska at the Prague airport. But the journey itself began long before that. Since my first year I knew that I wanted to travel during my studies, ideally to Switzerland, Germany or America. And it was to the USA that I managed to get.In January, I learned about the