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Astronomer Jiří Grygar on a life of promoting stargazing and scepticism
It’s pretty fair to say that anybody in the Czech Republic who knows
anything about astronomy has learned at least some of it from Dr. Jiří
Grygar. Something of a Czech Carl Sagan, Dr. Grygar has been a frequent
personality of Czech and Slovak television screens since his popular
programme “Windows Wide Open to Space” in the late 1970’s. He was the
chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society and is one of the founding
members of the Czech club of sceptics, Sisyfos, which battles pseudoscience
and charlatanism in the Czech media. I met Dr. Grygar in his tiny office at
the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, and asked him to tell me
about how he first became interested in his life’s passion. More
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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
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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
Krtek tours Czech Republic after return from space
The Czech cartoon character Krtek, or Little Mole, has been given a
hero’s welcome back home after spending two weeks in space. The American
astronaut Andrew Feustel, who took Krtek to space aboard the Endeavour
space shuttle, arrived in Prague last week with his family, and is now
touring the Czech Republic with Krtek to promote science and technology
among young Czechs. More
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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 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
Giant leap for mole-kind as Czech cartoon character joins space shuttle crew
A legendary Czech is going into space on a forthcoming shuttle flight.
Although a veteran of such cosmic adventures, as well as many others, this
crew member might raise some eyebrows ― he’s the world recognised
cartoon character, the mole, sometimes known as the little Mole or
Krteček. We look at a giant step for mole-kind. 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
World's astronauts, scientists, technicians meet for annual space congress
More than 2,000 astronauts, engineers and scientists are currently rubbing
shoulders at the Prague Congress Centre, for the annual International
Astronautical Congress. The meeting, being held here for the first time
since 1977, covers subjects as diverse as the future of the International
Space Station and whether there’s life on Mars.
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