Christian Falvey

The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats…

Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts…

The music of Vladimir 518 has been a staple of the Czech hip hop scene since it started in the 1990s. Now he has taken his music to a unique performance called Spam that…

No visit to Prague is complete without paying homage to one of the most important buildings in the country in terms of history, symbolism and function: the National…

The Czech Republic’s oldest zoo, in Liberec, is now host to its sixth new Golden Takin, an endangered goat-antelope from China. The new family of Takins is the first ever…

The Polish president Lech Kaczynski is currently in the Czech Republic for a two-day state visit. His Czech counterpart Václav Klaus presented Mr Kaczynski with the…

To his many Nobel Prize-winning colleagues, Georg Placzek was a physicist of boundless importance. It was not because of a breakthrough discovery on his part, or because…