Christian Falvey

Thousands of believers flocked to the Czech Republic's second largest city Brno in south Moravia on Sunday to greet Pope Benedict XVI and attend a mass he celebrated out…

Borderlands are fascinating areas where cultures either meet and intermingle, or in some cases are cordoned off to coldly stare at one another. The Czech/German/Austrian…

It’s pretty fair to say that anybody in the Czech Republic who knows anything about astronomy has learned at least some of it from Dr. Jiří Grygar. Something of a Czech…

There are two questions that I have been asked at least once a week for the last eleven-and-a-half years: “What do you like about the Czech Republic?” and “Don’t you miss…

Finding an agent that would successfully clean up chemical toxins has been a kind of theoretical Holy Grail for chemists. Thanks to a group of scientists at Brno’s Masaryk…

Czech crayfish are in trouble, and a new multimillion-crown research centre is coming to their rescue. The project aims to reduce the threat of rival crayfish species…