Section Archive Science Journal
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
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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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Million-dollar airport scanners get a run for their money from a small,
Czech-made device that can sniff out even the smallest traces of explosive
and radioactive materials. More
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What do foxes and yoghurt have in common? Nothing at all, aside, that is,
from that fact that they are the subjects of some interesting experiments
in Czech science. Welcome to this month’s Science Journal. More
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On this month’s Science Journal we have the wonders of numbers with maths
king Dr. Daniel Král. More
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Coming up on this month’s Science Journal: advice on how to win the
National Prize for scientific research – just revolutionise global
progress in the field of virology; organisms of the Czech Republic, unite!
Your genetic data is wanted, but there are so many of you – more than
100,000; and how do generations of children from smoggy Prague know there
are stars out there? Because there is one of the largest planetariums in
the world here, and it’s celebrating its fiftieth birthday. 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
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.
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Million-dollar airport scanners get a run for their money from a small,
Czech-made device that can sniff out even the smallest traces of explosive
and radioactive materials.
More
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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.
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