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Current AffairsCzech firm aims to improve life for fliers with new liquid detector
If you ever had to dump a bottle of your favourite drink before boarding
your plane, or plead for a plastic bag at one of the airport’s stores to
put your nose drops in, you will appreciate an invention that might soon do
away with all this. A company in Prague has developed a portable detector
of dangerous liquids that will tell the airport security people that your
drink is harmless. The director of the company RS Dynamics Jiří Bláha
explains more about the detector, known as Explonics.
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Current AffairsAward for firm hoping to make banknote counterfeiting thing of past
Among the prize winners at Tuesday’s 2008 Česká hlava (Czech Head)
science and technology awards was the company Optaglio, which has created
a
system aimed at ending the counterfeiting of banknotes. It involves
embedding holograms – similar to those you might find on credit cards -
in
cash, making notes far harder to copy, and fakes far more obvious. I
discussed the innovation with Optaglio’s Libor Kotačka. More
Current AffairsGeologist Josef Sekyra, first Czech to reach South Pole, dies at 80
The renowned Czech geologist Josef Sekyra – the first Czech to reach the
South Pole – has died at the age of 80. In December 1969, Sekyra was part
of the American operation Deep Freeze which studied conditions in
Antarctica, but that was just one of his many different accomplishments:
from extensive travels to hundreds of published scientific papers.
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Czechs TodayCzechs Today – Antonín Holý
Antonín Holý is one of the Czech Republic’s most renowned scientists.
Most recently, his name was put forward by the Czech Academy of Sciences
to
be nominated for the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work finding
compounds
to fight both the AIDS virus and cancer. Learn more in Czechs Today. More
One on OneProfessor Jaroslav Blahoš - former president of the World Medical Association
My guest for One on One this week is Professor Jaroslav Blahoš, one of the
world’s leading endocrinologists. Besides publishing over 370 papers on
his specialist subject, Professor Blahoš has also won several prestigious
awards. Among other things, he was the only the second Czech after Jan
Evangelista Purkyně to be made a member of France’s renowned Académie
Nationale de Médecine. He has been head of the Czech Medical Association
since 1993 and was president of the World Medical Association from
1999-2001.
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Current AffairsCzech unmanned flights system to be tested by FAA
The American Federal Aviation Administration, responsible for the safety of
air traffic in the United States, has reportedly been looking into an
unmanned flights system designed by the cybernetics department at the Czech
Technical University. The system, called AGENTFLY, has been designed to
programme pilotless aircraft to react independently in unexpected
situations.
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Current AffairsCzechs make breakthrough discovery in bacteria DNA
Czech scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, one that research
teams all over the world have been striving for for years. Scientists from
the University of South Bohemia have detected the structure of an enzyme
that can change the DNA in bacteria. The discovery should in time prevent
bacteria from being resistant to antibiotics. Ruth Fraňková spoke to
Ruediger Ettrich, the head of the Centre of protein structure and function
and one of the people behind the discovery: More
Current AffairsCzech Republic becomes first post-communist state to join European Space Agency
The Czech Republic is set to join the European Space Agency, after its
council approved Czech membership this week. Once that is ratified by the
Czech Parliament, the country will become the first post-communist state to
join the prestigious space research institution. But what will membership
mean for the Czech Republic? That’s a question Radio Prague put to the
director of Czech Space Office Jan Kolář.
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Current AffairsUS astronaut of Czechoslovak descent recalls moon landings and pioneering spacewalk
Retired US astronaut Eugene Cernan is one of only three people to have
landed on the moon twice. In fact, he is the last human being to have
walked on the moon: as commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, he was
the last astronaut to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module before the crew
returned to Earth. As the name might suggest, Mr Cernan is of Czechoslovak
descent. Indeed, he carried Czechoslovakia’s flag with him on his final
space flight. He told me why:
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