Natalie Bezděková
While most people consider fallen leaves in autumn to be nothing more than waste, one Ukrainian student saw them as a raw material with enormous potential. What began as a school project quickly turned into an innovation that could fundamentally change the future of the paper industry—and, above all, significantly help the environment. The yo...
In a laboratory in Tokyo, Japanese scientists have made a breakthrough in materials engineering: they have created a synthetic fibre that is five times stronger than Kevlar and significantly lighter. The new material is called Tsuno-Fiber and was inspired by one of the strongest natural materials – spider silk. Spider silk has long fascinated...
New research by the Transport Research Center, commissioned by the Brno Transport Authority, has revealed interesting findings about the impact of listening to the radio on driver attention and safety. The study showed that listening to music while driving can have a positive effect on concentration and helps drivers reduce fatigue during long s...
Comprehensive testing of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in electric cars of various brands was conducted in China. The aim was to compare the capabilities of the cars in real-life urban driving conditions and to evaluate how the individual systems behave when interacting with normal traffic. To everyone's surprise (or rather, confi...
Nik Storonsky, co-founder and CEO of fintech giant Revolut, is bucking current trends in how he runs his company. At a time when tech companies are competing to offer employee benefits and emphasize work-life balance, Revolut is taking a different approach—an uncompromising focus on performance, numbers, and growth. Storonsky's management sty...
Researchers from several universities (the University of Texas, Shanghai Jiao Tong, the National University of Singapore, and Umeå University in Sweden) have used artificial intelligence to develop new coatings that significantly reduce the temperature of surfaces exposed to sunlight. These paints can keep the temperature of buildings in the mid...
Trump is pushing the Fed to make money cheaper. But clams may make life more expensive for Americans
Donald Trump's trade policies, especially the imposition of tariffs, will weigh on US consumers in the long run, according to most members of the US Federal Reserve (Fed). These developments may affect the Fed's stance on interest rate changes. Their decisions will also affect foreign investors, including Czech ones, who have money in the US mar...
What would you do if you had a time machine? Would you bet on winning lottery numbers, buy shares in Apple - or try your luck with cryptocurrencies when no one has ever heard of them? That's exactly what Norwegian student Kristoffer Koch did - albeit quite unintentionally. In 2009, while writing his thesis on cryptography, he came across the ...
Artificial intelligence needs huge amounts of data to function. To collect this data, AI bots, or crawlers, are programs that automatically crawl web pages and save text, images or other content from them. It is these bots that Cloudflare is now taking a strong stand against, protecting more than 16% of global internet traffic. Since July, ev...
