Searching for Earth-like planets in deep space is the objective of the European Space Agency's PLATO mission.

This was the third such contract for the Brno scientists, who have previously produced customised equipment for a large Japanese car company and a German university.

It may soon pay off for industrial companies to invest in technologies that help capture carbon dioxide from the flue gases, instead of paying for allowances that authorize them to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The so-called holographic micro-endoscopy is currently being tested on mice, but in the future the team would like this tissue-friendly and extremely detailed imaging method to be made available for use in human patients.

When Pavla Formánková smiles, it's a smile like from an advertisement. You certainly wouldn't tell about her how much she suffered with her teeth.

Working directly for the European Space Agency is not something that anyone does. However, this applies to Jakub Mašek and his colleagues from the Institute of Aerospace Engineering.

How do you make rail infrastructure more resilient to weather changes, extreme natural events and even terrorist attacks? This was one of the main questions of the RISEN project, thanks to which researchers from the Tribology Group at the Institute of Machine and Industrial Design of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME) at BUT were able to travel to Japan and China and exchange the latest knowledge and experience in this area with both private institutions and other universities. Although the project was interrupted by the pandemic, it was possible to take advantage of the established cooperation and turn it into further joint research projects.

Exhibits from BUT will also be on display in the Czech pavilion at the Expo 2020 World Exhibition. Experts from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering have sent a robot to Dubai to demonstrate 3D printing from an innovative biopolymer, 3D printed blocks for a green wall and a project to present an easy way to clean seas and oceans from plastics. There will also be a robotic rescuer from the Faculty of Information Technology who can find a person in a landslide or under an avalanche. Expo 2020 starts in the United Arab Emirates with a one-year delay on October 1 and will last until March 31 next year.

Today at the Brno University of Technology, the last elements of the parkour playground dedicated by Stavební spořitelna of Česká spořitelna (Buřinka) to the City District of Prague 11 were printed on a frame 3D printer. 12.5 t of a special concrete mixture from Master Builders Solutions CZ was needed for the printing, which took place in the Laboratory of Construction 3D Printing at the AdMaS Centre of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and lasted 10 hours of clean time. The printed obstacles are poured with recycled rebetong concrete for reinforcement. As another step to support innovation, Buřinka became one of the founding members of the Association of Innovative Technologies and 3D Printing in Construction.

The symbiosis of fish farming and vegetable growing in a closed system, the so-called aquaponics, is on the rise in the Czech Republic. In order for business to be not only profitable, but also maximally ecological, it is necessary to balance a delicate balance in the system, which would suit both fish and plants. The researchers from the Brno University of Technology and the Institute of Global Change Research of the ASCR (CzechGlobe for short) have now come up with a solution. Together with Flenexa, they mapped the nutrient flow in the aquaponic farm, designed a model to predict the behaviour of the system and, according to the first laboratory tests, selected algae that should help make high-tech farming more efficient.

From the sand dunes in the Sahara Desert to the freezing Svalbard, an international team of researchers from the University of Hawaii and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Brno University of Technology watched total solar eclipses everywhere for fourteen years. They recently summarized their latest findings in an article for the prestigious Astrophysical Journal Letters, and NASA notes the article on its website. Thanks to their measurements, experts determined the sources of different solar wind currents in the solar corona.

A small drone adapted for monitoring the presence of invasive plant species. This is one of the results of long-term cooperation between the Brno University of Technology and the Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Průhonice. While a functional sample of an improved aircraft is being created at the Institute of Aviation of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, botanists are tuning algorithms to automatically detect non-native plants in the obtained data. The system is intended to facilitate and reduce the cost of monitoring non-native species, such as the dangerous Heracleum.