The hosts of Radio FM's morning programme were surprised to learn that American scientist and former astronaut Mary Ellen Weber, recently in Bratislava for a conference, has Slovak roots.
One of the things that leads to various cancer diseases is damaged DNA. Although the human body has natural mechanisms to repair DNA when it's damaged, sometimes these mechanisms fail to work correctly ...
On 3rd September 2019, American physicist Mark Hillery was awarded the Slovak Academy of Science's annual International Prize for his work in the field of quantum mechanics - in particular for his 25-year ...
The future of internet connectivity is wide open, with technologies like 5G and satellite networks promising to make super-high speeds the new 'norm'. Daniel Sors Raurell represents a British-based company ...
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 ...
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