On Friday, September 30, 2022, after a two-year online period, the Night of Scientists was once again held "live". At the Faculty of Science of MU, both campuses, the centre on Kotlářská Street and the Bohunice University Campus, came alive with science from 6 pm to midnight. The event involved over 300 performers from the ranks of scientists, researchers, teachers and students. They prepared a total of 55 stations, where they presented "science with all their hands", as was the theme of this year's edition of this regularly well-attended and popular event popularising science. The question was, what will two years of online life do to attendance? Turns out it changed almost nothing.
About 1,200 people visited the grounds on Kotlářská Street, with the unrepeatable charm of the historic complex of buildings and botanical garden, with a little park in the middle, where once again there were concerts in addition to scientific exhibitions and gold panning. Which has been (with iron regularity) a recurring number for the last 10 years. The Bohunice University Campus, which presented several university institutions, was visited by 1,875 visitors.
Visitors were able to enjoy everything that is being researched at the Faculty of Science of MU with all their senses. Whether it is molecules, cells, proteins, microorganisms, plants, animals, pollution, chemicals, rocks, minerals, Habani or physical phenomena, plasma or the universe.
Honorary doctorates were awarded, by decision of the Scientific Council of Masaryk University, to Professor Thomas Robert Cech, who made a significant contribution to the formation of the field of biological sciences; and Peter Wolfram Michor, who made a significant contribution to the development of...
A team of botanists has revealed significant changes in the distribution of species in the Czech flora. Their study, published in the international scientific journal Biological Conservation, analyzed the decline and increase of individual plant species in the Czech Republic since 1960.
