The "thorium transition", has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are leading aggressive actions to combat lead exposure.

This year, Karel Šmejkal received the MU Rector’s Award for long-term excellence in research in the field of natural sciences and medicine.

A research group led by Dr. Edward Curtis has developed two new types of catalytic DNA molecules (deoxyribozymes) that can reveal the presence of target molecules through fluorescence or color.

Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have begun.

New approach could inform better public health guidelines.

Study has implications for targeting metabolism in cancer treatment.

Such discoveries help researchers better understand the development of molecular complexity in space during star formation.

Technology from the laboratories of IOCB Prague has been given an extraordinary opportunity to succeed in the rapidly developing segment of gene therapy.

What kind of methods can be used to examine the inner world of crystals? How did crystallographic research develop in Czechoslovakia? And what can researchers today discover down to the nanoscale?