10 Jun

Zoologists revealed mechanisms behind the long evolution of Vertigo snails

Vertigo snails have lived on Earth for tens of millions of years, and in that time they have inhabited every continent except the Antarctica. An international team of zoologists led by researchers from Masaryk University has shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms of these tiny land snails. The results of their research were published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.

5 Jun

Birth of Giants: Supermassive black holes formed differently than previously thought

New discoveries suggest that supermassive black holes formed differently thanpreviously thought. Orsolya Kovács from Masaryk University, who discovered one of the distant "giants" with the Chandra satellite and the James Webb Telescope, has published her findings in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters.

5 Jun

MUNI Seminar Series links mathematics with neuroscience and economics with sociology

The MUNI Seminar Series regularly offers lectures on current trends in science and the opportunity to meet leading figures from different fields in three areas.

3 Jun

Vote for our botanical garden. It is about half a million!

The E.ON Energy Globe competition has six finalists. Among them, the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. The prize money amounting to half a million will go to the project which amasses the most votes by 20 August. Actor and presenter Lukáš Hejlík is the ambassador of our project.

31 May

Masaryk University observatory telescope will monitor the southern sky

Astrophysicists from Masaryk University have shown the first photos of the southern night sky taken by the observing telescope that the university has installed at the Boyden Observatory in South Africa. In collaboration with colleagues from South Africa's Free State University, they prepared the observatory for the telescope in recent months, completed its installation and started testing it a few days ago. The telescope can be operated remotely and will be used by Brno scientists and students.

28 May

Swam Pyae Paing’s team delivers best presentation of Data Analytics Bootcamp 2024

The Data Analytics study programme Bootcamp Workshop has run from 13 to 17 May 2024 at Hotel U Crlíku, Tetčice, close to Brno, Czechia. All teams were presenting their solutions for real world problems. On-site participants than competed with their team’s work-in-progress presentations. Meet the winner of the final workshop presentation: Swam Pyae Paing’s team.

24 May

Dies academicus: Recognition of personalities who bring distinction to our faculty and the university

On the occasion of Dies academicus, the University honoured outstanding researchers and successful students, awarding its Gold and Silver medals to the laureates. The MU Rector's Award went to Peter Fabian, Daniel Pluskal, Július Vida and Domagoj Gajski. Congratulations to all the awardees!

23 May

Astronomers measure the rotation of a supermassive black hole for the first time

Astronomers have for the first time measured the rotation of a supermassive black hole using the wobbling of gaseous material from a disintegrated star. The results, obtained by an international team of scientists, offer a new way to study supermassive black holes and their evolution in the Universe. One of the lead authors of the study published in the prestigious journal Nature was Michal Zajaček from the Masaryk University, Faculty of Science.