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.
Insect wings may have evolved from gills3. 1. 2024 How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure...
Lake Fish Telemetry Group: Movement Ecology Thematic Series and Editorial1. 12. 2023 Five years since it commenced, the Lake Fish Telemetry Group research project–which was funded with support from the Alternet Multi-Site Research (MSR) initiative–continues to achieve new...
Ants are hungry for sugar and oil. An international team led by Czech scientists revealed insect tastes in the remote forests of tropical mountains3. 11. 2023 The decline of insect populations has attracted worldwide interest in times of global warming and changing environment, but we have only rudimentary knowledge about the biodiversity and abundance...
Gerrit Angst awarded the Lumina quaeruntur premium. He will start a new research team31. 10. 2023 Soil biologist Gerrit Angst from the Biology Centre of the CAS received the prestigious Lumina quaeruntur Premium from the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This generous grant for...
Pascal Boireau received the G. J. Mendel Medal for Merit in the Biological Sciences24. 10. 2023 Dr. Pascal Boireau, Director of the Laboratory for Animal Health, Maisons-Alfort, ANSES, France, a distinguished collaborator of the Institute of Parasitology, received the Gregor Johann Mendel...
Jiunn Luh Tan awarded for the best oral presentation24. 10. 2023 Jiunn Luh Tan, a dedicated PhD student at the Institute of Entomology and Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, achieved a remarkable accolade at the 8th Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS...
