Science and technology
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Czech astronomers create country’s third dark skies reserve in western Bohemia
As of this week the Czech Republic has a third dark skies reserve in the Manětín region, in western Bohemia. Its opening on Monday attracted amateur astronomers from…
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Czech scientists searching for ways to remove toxins from drinking water
Detergents, painkillers and contraceptives are things we use daily. What most of us don’t realize is that all of them contribute to the presence of toxins in our rivers…
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Czech firm develops technique to turn water hyacinths into paper in Kenya
After being contacted by a Czech aid worker with links to Kenya, a craft paper producer in North Bohemia has come up with a method under which locals on Lake Victoria will…
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“Disappeared Science” commemorates Jewish scholars of Bohemia and Moravia killed in Holocaust
The Nazi persecution of the Jewish people before and during WWII affected all layers of the society, regardless of the victims’ social status or achievements. Among the…
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Scientists unlock secret of Pravčice Arch
A Czech-American team of scientists recently published findings in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, after discovering how unique landforms such as the Czech…
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Czech scientists develop Lyme disease vaccine
Czech scientists have developed a new vaccine against Lyme disease. Presenting their breakthrough on Tuesday, the researchers said the vaccine against the tick-borne…
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Geocaching not far removed from Czech mushroom picking, says co-creator of acclaimed Stratocaching…
Last year a Czech project combining a stratospheric balloon with GPS-locatable pods released and dispersed at random, took the hobby of geocaching to a new level. Although…
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Czech researchers studying global climate change on James Ross Island
Czech scientists from Brno’s Masaryk University have been involved in polar research since the 1980s and since 2006 they have their own polar station in Antarctica –the…
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After proton therapy in Prague, British prostate cancer patient tells others to check out all the…
Prague’s Proton Therapy Center, which opened a year ago, has had more than its fair share of teething problems. Due to a drawn-out conflict with the country’s largest…
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Ondřejov observatory records nine billion-year-old gamma-ray burst
Czech astronomers at Ondřejov observatory southeast of Prague, have revealed the Czech observatory was recently the first terrestrial station to record a gamma-ray burst…
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Czechs launch first geocaches into the stratosphere
This past weekend, a group of Czech scientist and enthusiasts took the popular geocaching hobby – where people look for hidden containers with the help of GPS devices – to…
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Czech researchers uncover new plant species in Borneo
Members of an expert team from Palacký University conducting research on the island of Borneo revealed recently they had uncovered a new species of plant belonging to the…
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