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Czech ScienceWomen in Czech science
In this week's Czech Science we'll be looking at a topic relevant not only
in the Czech Republic - and that is women in science. I talked to Marcela
Linkova from the National Contact Centre Women and Science, whose aim is
to promote women in scientific professions, and asked her first why women
could be considered a separate category in Czech science.
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Czech ScienceNew edition of Universum encyclopaedia published
In this week's edition of Czech Science we look at a new encyclopaedia that
has just been published. In 2000 and 2001 the Euromedia Group publishing
house put out a ten-volume encyclopaedia called Universum, which contained
150,000 entries and was awarded in the Dictionary of the Year contest the
following year. Last autumn a multimedia version of the encyclopaedia was
published and was awarded the main prize in the same contest. A four-tome
version followed and finally, last week a single-volume, up-to-date
edition of Universum came out, containing around 40,000 entries.
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Talking PointIs Czech science affected by brain drain?
Last week was European Week of Science and Technology. The Czech Republic
joined it with a number of events and discussions showing the highlights,
but also unveiling the challenges the Czech scientific community is
facing. What are the biggest problems Czech science is confronting?
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Current AffairsCzech Science and Technology Week underway
Technical universities in the Czech Republic have been witnessing a gradual
drop in the number of students over the past years, as is the case pretty
much everywhere else in Europe. While science and technology play key
roles in our everyday life, young people are turning away from science
subjects.
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Czech ScienceContact lens inventor Otto Wichterle was born 90 years ago
Last week, Czech academics marked the 90th anniversary of the birth of the
outstanding Czech scientist and legendary inventor of the contact lens and
the synthetic fibre "silon", Professor Otto Wichterle, who died
five years ago. Those who had a chance to meet him, his former students
and colleagues remember Otto Wichterle not only for his achievements in
science and research but also for his exceptional personality.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The determined rescue efforts that went into saving a group of eleven Russian miners trapped 700 metres underground for six long days has been a closely watched story - and today's papers finally bring relief - the struggle is over and the blackened, tired faces of the rescued miners look out from the front pages. It was a nightmare but it is over, one of them says. More
Current AffairsResearch institutes to open doors to public in Science Week
Throughout next week, Czechs will have a unique chance to learn more about
what is currently going on in Czech science and research. More than fifty
research institutes, observatories, laboratories and lecture halls around
the country will open their doors to welcome school students, families and
science fans in this year's Science week, organised by the Czech Academy
of Sciences. Admission to all the events is free and the Academy is hoping
to attract even more visitors than the 10,000 who came last year. Helena
Illnerova is the chairwoman of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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SpotlightHradec Kralove Solar and Ozone Observatory
This week I've come to the east Bohemian town of Hradec Kralove, to the
Czech Republic's only solar and ozone observatory, which was established
over half a century ago, in 1951. My guide is a physicist named Karel
Vanicek, who has been working here since the mid 1970s. Of course ozone
depletion is now a well-known problem and I asked Mr Vanicek when he and
his colleagues in Hradec first began to notice that the ozone layer was
starting to disappear.
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Current AffairsDiscovering Czech Science
Have you ever wondered what lies behind the Institute of Parasitology in
Prague? The Week of Science and Technology that has just started in the
Czech Republic will help you to find out and make some scientific
discoveries of your own.
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