http://radio.cz/en/article/147840 en Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Radio Prague CMS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Radio Broadcasting cr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas) webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) http://radio.cz/en/article/147840 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. Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 urn:uuid:c95b04e7-b6c3-5c7c-aa4f-a97266afb300 http://radio.cz/en/article/146436 In this edition of Science Journal: Czech physicists make the American Science magazine with an experiment on quantum walks. And the secrets of the Antarctic unfold beneath the watchful eyes of scientists from Masaryk University in Brno, who are expanding their research at James Ross Island this year. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:ec4ae0b4-de40-5708-8260-e77a43aa34f0 http://radio.cz/en/article/145699 Presbytis hosei canicrus – let’s call him Miller's Grizzled Langur, is one of the rarest primates in the world, with hardly any pictures in existence and very few people having ever seen one. In fact it was believed that the long-tailed monkey was extinct, until scientists observing two natural springs in the Kutai National Park in Borneo came across one grizzled patron after another. Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:4d83b6c7-a434-52df-a952-95c8d15e30b5 http://radio.cz/en/article/144967 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. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:b742dc27-b441-5916-b476-75b56e0027ee http://radio.cz/en/article/143931 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. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:7021b2f4-8bcf-5976-bdcb-90426fa8f296 http://radio.cz/en/article/143223 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. Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:9dac8e1a-86a1-5aac-a3ec-ffc204f0dd3e http://radio.cz/en/article/141760 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. Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:3d2fa14a-d49b-560d-afda-beab4f02fa8e http://radio.cz/en/article/141044 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. Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:0c761315-7659-5119-806a-3ed8214877b6 http://radio.cz/en/article/140313 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. Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:7d4d91d2-3006-5cc3-aa9a-74182fc95a3c http://radio.cz/en/article/139611 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. Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:0d3325ea-c7ea-561e-be15-1d76c7c4f499 http://radio.cz/en/article/138784 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. Sat, 28 May 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:08e02e71-30b8-51b8-8603-33f8ac84ccb3 http://radio.cz/en/article/137957 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. Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:a5123702-7cba-5b55-88a4-d9aa131f7470 http://radio.cz/en/article/137181 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. Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:23dbb8cf-0756-53d4-8483-03da8669aaa0 http://radio.cz/en/article/136389 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. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:758da4fc-d4d4-518c-b0b9-75ed14c19e46 http://radio.cz/en/article/135441 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. Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:398f4651-81d2-5717-84d0-24afd98fc02f http://radio.cz/en/article/133744 On this month’s Science Journal we have the wonders of numbers with maths king Dr. Daniel Král. Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:01:00 +0100 urn:uuid:b6b6139a-4adb-5dd8-af5e-98181c4aed6c http://radio.cz/en/article/132889 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. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:1ea61496-550a-5dc8-8e53-faf1d938ef7c http://radio.cz/en/article/132099 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. Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:7568648e-65b5-5d7f-b7b3-f7d8840ec8db http://radio.cz/en/article/131162 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. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:7cff1cdf-c5dd-59ff-ba10-aa4508d59abd http://radio.cz/en/article/130317 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. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:01:00 +0200 urn:uuid:93f06fdb-803e-5a02-81af-9cfd37f70653