On Tuesday, Education Minister Branislav Grohling announced the name of the scientist of the year for 2019. Peter Skyba, a member of the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, ...
As reported by the Slovak Union of Beekeepers, 75% of all crops and 90% of all plants depend on pollinators. Nevertheless, in spite of the importance of these small creatures, their numbers have been decreasing ...
The face masks have become a symbol that brought Slovakia some headlines in international media lately, being praised as an amazing preventative measure, but behind the mask are some not so amazing numbers ...
"According to satellite images, the average size of monoculture fields in Slovakia is 12 hectares, which means that Slovakia has the largest fields of all EU countries," says a recently published analysis ...
Each year, more than € 34 million are invested into clinical reaserch in Slovakia. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has revealed that Slovakia has a bigger potential in this domain.
Not many young scientists have the good fortune to begin their career at the prestigious research centre CERN, in Switzerland, but Robert Astaloš is one of them. He speaks with our colleague Petra Zemanova ...
A team of Slovak scientists has developed and produced a COVID-19 test which has been successfully registered. Scientist, biochemist and author of the key test component Pavol Čekan appreciated the synergy ...
One third of patients in Slovakia have felt the deteriorating availability of health care as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, according to a representative survey of the Association for the Protection ...
In the last few weeks, Slovakia has dealt with persistent drought. It has not been raining for more than a month in most parts of Slovakia, and it does not seem that it will rain any time soon.
There are surely many arguments about why one should or shouldn't become a vegan. From an ethical and ecological point of view, veganism seems to be a reasonable alternative.
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