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PhD student Patrik Sokola from FCH BUT on research into photocurable suspensions: I enjoy the wow effect when making new discoveries

12 mayWhat challenges does ceramic materials research bring, and how can innovative approaches help improve their properties? Patrik Sokola, a PhD student at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, FCH BUT, f

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Bismuth as a cheaper alternative to gold

7 mayThe Werner von Siemens Prize for third place in the Best Diploma Thesis category was awarded to Michael Foltýn of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Brno University of Technology for his wor

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A quarter of a century on the road to the Sun

2 may“If you were to stand in any random place on Earth and stubbornly wait for a total solar eclipse, the average waiting time would be 360 years. So it’s not a good idea to look for these places randomly

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LOSS OF STABILITY OF THE ELECTRICITY SYSTEM CAN CAUSE BLACKOUTS

29 aprilThe Werner von Siemens Award for the Best Dissertation on Smart Infrastructure and Energy was awarded to Ing. Jan Koudelka, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication at Brno

Ideas and Discoveries

Breakthrough “muscle” actuator: CEITEC BUT researchers receive prestigious EU grant as the only Czech coordinators

20 november 2024The High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry research group at CEITEC BUT has been awarded a prestigious grant under the EIC Pathfinder Open program. This European program is focused on su

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Revolutionary spectrometer will help scientists understand protein structure and design new drugs

21 october 2024Brno, Czech Republic – Thursday, 17 October 2024 – Today, leading researchers from CEITEC Brno University of Technology unveiled a groundbreaking technological innovation: a state-of-the-art 329 GHz E

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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