NASA published an image of the Neowise comet as its photo of the day on Saturday. The picture was taken by Czech photographer and mathematician Miloslav Druckmüller who is a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology. NASA´s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a prestigious award for space photographers.

Dry eye syndrome is one of the most common diseases that bring patients to the ophthalmologist's office. In addition, the number of patients is still growing. For milder forms of the disease, doctors prescribe the so-called artificial tears in the form of eye drops.

Researchers from the Department of Energy Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at BUT are now examining exactly how fibres behave when inhaled and how and where they settle in the lungs. They use their own unique lung model, one of the most advanced in the world, used by a number of scientific teams from around the world for testing and experiments.

He called it BE[A]ST, meaning "animal", or "best". When Filip Páral, a student of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Brno University of Technology, wanted to evaluate in his bachelor's thesis which of the jets for fire sports is the best, he found out that none is ideal.

Researchers from the laboratory of bioplastics, Faculty of Chemistry BUT, have designed a simple respirator that could be produced as cheaply as plastic beverage cups. The method of vacuum thermoforming will enable mass production of the respirator and its availability to the emergency services, as well as to ordinary citizens.

Vase, stool, or monument commemorating the Brno astronomical clock. Even such products have already been made using robotic 3D printing, technology developed by scientists from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering BUT.

Nine doctoral students from the Brno University of Technology scored in the competition Brno Ph.D. Talent that evaluates young scientists. Among them Miroslav Rebej from the Department of Process Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, whose task is to create a model of photobioreactor.

How does the lubricating fluid in human joints work? And what material could serve as a substitute for human cartilage in the future?

An international research team supervised by Professor Jiri Klemes is starting a new project called Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory (SPIL) at the NETME Centre.