Eva Kézrová

What happens to the plastic you put in the recycling container? Rather than being recycled, it likely ends up in landfill — or worse. But a new technology may provide hope.

A new laboratory enabling safe work with highly infectious viruses and bacteria opened this week at the Biocev science centre in Vestec near Prague. 

Scientists in Prague have been measuring the amount of dust that enters people’s lungs on a busy road in the city centre, using a special mobile cell incubator.

A new method developed by Czech scientists could eliminate the unpleasant side effects of cancer therapy.

One of the most valuable medieval monuments at Prague Castle, the glass mosaic of the Last Judgement at Saint Vitus Cathedral, is undergoing a close inspection. 

Machine translation experts from Charles University have developed a new system that can translate between 43 languages in real time.

There has only been one Czech Nobel Prize winner in a scientific field to date – Jaroslav Heyrovský in 1959. But another one could have followed just a year later.

Czechia has announced it will terminate its long-term cooperation with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia, following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a unique online atlas of Czech history, put together by history and cartography experts.

In the Odra River Basin, all Green Jumper frogs are male. Czech scientists have discovered they survive via sexual parasitism, cloning – and having two types of sperm.