Section Archive Science Journal
Science Journal
There’s a hole in the middle of Prague, and we want you to know what’s
in it. The early 1980s metro station at Národní třída is the scene of a
fascinating archaeological dig that we’ll be visiting in this month’s
Science Journal. More
Science Journal
We are not going so very far from Earth today, only two and a half
light-minutes or so, to a point where, come 2017, Czech technology will be
orbiting our Sun, and helping to answer some of its secrets. More
Science Journal
In this month’s Science Journal we talk to the Czech psychologists who
monitored the participants in the Mars 500 experiment, and also to the
discoverers of a hitherto unknown, tick-borne disease. More
Ivan Havel and 140 years of Vesmír magazine
It has been a constant companion for generation after generation of Czech
science lovers – the popular science magazine Vesmír is marking its
140th year in publication. In today’s Science Journal we talk about the
magazine’s course through the decades with none other than its
editor-in-chief Dr. Ivan Havel, the distinguished former head of the Centre
for Theoretical Studies and brother of ex-president Václav Havel, who took
up work at the magazine just after the Velvet Revolution. More
Science Journal
We’ve heard the politicians and the eco-activists’ views on the Šumava
– but what do the scientists say? And by the way, how do cells read DNA?
That’s what we’ll be trying to get our heads around this month on
Science Journal.
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Science Journal
Where will the energy of the future come from? If it comes from nuclear
fusion, then the COMPASS tokamak fusion reactor in at Prague’s Institute
of Plasma Physics will have played an important role in making it a
reality. More
Science Journal
It is only two and a half years now since the Czech Republic officially
joined the European Space Agency, and already Czech scientists are playing
a big role, with more than three dozen projects currently underway. More
Czech scientists uncover reason behind high incidence of abortions in mares
In this month’s edition of Science Journal: A team of Czech researchers
may have found the answer to a question that has puzzled veterinarians,
horse breeders and biologists for decades – why such a high percentage of
pregnancies in mares end in natural, chemically triggered abortions. A
recent study released by a Czech scientist suggests the answer may be that
keeping pregnant mares close to stallions at their home stable makes them
more likely to abort. More
Czech spaceship architect who is going where no Czech has gone before, to NASA, the asteroids, Mars and beyond.
In this month‘s edition of Science Journal: the final frontier. These are
the voyages of Tomáš Rousek, a Czech spaceship architect who is going
where no Czech has gone before, to NASA, the asteroids, Mars and beyond. More
Science Journal
Lots of us might be sick of the cold, literally and figuratively, but as
the skiers begin hanging up their hats as the birds and the bugs come back,
so ends the happy time of the year for at least one man in the Czech
Scientific community, Radek Mikuláš. Dr. Mikuláš is not your everyday
geologist. For 20 years he has been venturing out onto the winter rivers,
ponds and reservoirs of the Czech Republic on skates to study a very
special type of rock – ice. The fruit of his labour, a book called
Ledové Čechy, or “Icy Bohemia”, won a prize from publishers Academia
recently for its beautiful production, and it’s not without some
fascinating insights. Earlier this week I went to visit Dr Mikuláš in his
tiny office at the Institute of Geology. More
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