Since the beginning of time species, be it plants or animals, were moving from one place to another in order to survive and spread their offspring in new territories. With modern humans, however, this ...
Why would a world-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate choose to give his time to helping with a relatively unknown science award in a small country like Slovakia? Jonathan asks Professor Kip Thorne, ...
Today Ján Mašek does highly sophisticated numerical weather modelling at the hydrometeorological institute in Prague, but he first learned the skills needed to embark on this career during his secondary ...
For decades, astronomers wanting to use their high-powered telescopes to peer up into the night sky have had to deal with the problem of so-called ‘light pollution’, mainly from artificial city lights ...
Is there intelligent life to be found on any other planet but our own, anywhere else in the universe? Within the past century or so this question has been the focus of much scientific research and has ...
The reason for the low vaccination rate among Slovaks is their heightened fear of vaccines and a feeling of helplessness in terms of assessing their safety.
The discovery that some of the moons of the larger planets in our solar system have liquid water under the surface, and hence the potential to support life, came as a big surpise to scientists, as these ...
The problem of “filter bubbles” – a phenomenon caused by social network AI algorithms recommending to their users only the kind of content they will like or agree with – has been well documented in the ...
The 'ethical hackers' of Bratislava's IT security firm Nethemba have discovered a vulnerability in the government database storing Covid-related health information for Slovak citizens - in particular their ...
For the past 10 years or so we've been hearing a lot about the problem of 'antibiotic resistance' - namely that bacteria have been evolving in a way that makes them resistant to the antibiotics we currently ...
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