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When Water Boils and Freezes at the Same Time: A Recipe for Strange Icy Landscapes in the Solar System
When you put puff dough in the oven, the water inside turns into steam, which breathes through its greased layers and creates a delicate, flaky structure. On icy bodies across the Solar System, a somewhat similar process—though without butter and under extremely low...
Postdoctoral researcher position in complex systems and volcanology
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Czech Science foundation which objective is to use a complex system approach to model magmatic systems. The project involves building a database of the characteristics of magmatic systems,...
Scoria Cones on Earth and Mars
Image of the Day is a popular section of the US space agency NASA's website – not only on its astronomy pages (such as here), but also on the NASA Earth Observatory page focused on Earth research. The selected satellite image is always accompanied by expert...
Exhibition Opening 24. 2. – Anna Banytiuk: I Carry My Home With Me
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition Anna Banytiuk: I Carry My Home With Me. The opening will take place on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 5:00 PM in the lecture hall of the Institute of Geophysics. Anna Banytiuk (*2001, Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a...