Czech scientists' “knight in iron armour†wins Nature science journal award
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- 01 Nov 2022
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A video created by a team of scientists from the BIOCEV centre on the outskirts of Prague has won the “Science in Shorts” competition, organised by the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The minute-long video, which explores the role of iron particles in the human body, had to face off against a wide-range of international competition before it was shortlisted by a jury and picked as the final winner by a public vote.
A tall knight, clad in iron armour, is led into the BIOCEV research centre by a team of scientists whose faces are covered by paper bags. Various funny interactions commence between the knight and the science team as a narrator explains what researchers do at the facility and why iron is important in their work. All of this happens in just under a minute.
The narrator in the video, and the leader of the team who made it, is Pavel Doležal from the Department of Parasitology at Charles University. He says that they had no prior experience of making videos and just wanted to have a bit of fun creating something that could also have an impact on the public. Read More...
