No doubt many of you are not aware that your life depends on something called a "mitochondrion" - one of several 'organelles', or tiny organs, involved in the functional structure of a living cell.
These days we commemorate 50 years since the first man, Neil Armstrong, stepped on the Moon. But do you know who was the last man to walk on the Moon? American astronaut with Slovak heritage, Eugene A. ...
The impact of new technologies - for better and for worse - is often felt within the small world of chess grandmasters long before it is felt by the larger society the rest of us inhabit.
People in Slovakia search the internet for the topic "suicide" 1,000 times per month on average, and 1,600 times for the expression "how to kill yourself", according to the findings of a group of psychologists ...
I speak with Cambridge University student Filip Ayazi, a Slovak from Trenčin, about how AI and new methods of do-it-yourself manufacturing are promising to make diagnosing malaria much more affordable ...
We visit an indoor 'aquaponics' farm in Bratislava - where vegetables are grown without sunlight or soil and are fertilised with the waste product of fish - and talk with the company's co-founders Filip ...
Last year 29,245 people were diagnosed with some form of cancer in Slovakia, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Colorectal, lung and breast cancers are the most common among ...
By law, all healthcare providers in Slovakia must have professional liability insurance and they have to be continuously covered for the entire period when they provide healthcare services.
The Neurology Department of the "Ivan Stodola" Hospital in Liptovský Mikuláš has won the "Angel Award" for its results in treating stroke patients for the second year in a row.
How reliably are scientists able to detect a meteor or asteroid before it enters the earth's atmosphere, potentially causing serious damage? Bratislava scientist and asteroid detection expert Juraj Tóth ...
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