Science and technology
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Coronavirus: Czech scientists focus on role proteins play in spreading COVID-19
Scientists across the world are working to better understand the novel coronavirus now affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The Institute of Organic Chemistry and…
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Czech biochemist involved in developing potential coronavirus treatment
As the new COVID-19 coronavirus spreads from China to countries around the world, scientists are intensifying efforts to produce an effective cure. Among the most…
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Czech scientists developing revolutionary microwavable, “smart” bioplastic bowl
Czech scientists have invented a new kind of bioplastic which they say decomposes remarkably fast– and is highly resistant to heat. Researchers from Tomáš Baťa University…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – Part II: how alienation in ‘half-barbaric’ Prague led him to a new theory…
When Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Prague in early April 1911 to take up his first full professorship teaching theoretical physics, he was not yet world-famous…
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“Einstein in Bohemia” – part 1: how a Prague sojourn sparked his theory of general relativity…
Albert Einstein’s tenure as a professor of theoretical physics in Prague is often noted in passing – as an “interlude” or a “sojourn” of no great significance, even though…
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Czech start-up developing application to help fight memory loss
A Czech start-up called PromethistAI is developing a programme that would help people train their memory and improve their cognitive skills. The application, provisionally…
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Czech company develops “revolutionary” facemask that could help limit spread of coronavirus
Czech nanofiber technology firm Respilon Group says it has developed revolutionary masks capable of isolating and killing viruses, such as the one currently affecting…
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Why the Czech town Litoměřice now boasts central Europe’s deepest (geothermal) borehole
Czech geologists and geophysicists have been hard at work drilling the deepest geothermal borehole in all of central Europe. The borehole, on the outskirts of the northern…
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Czech NGO to support teaching of science in Little Tibet
The Czech NGO Brontosauři v Himalájích has been helping in the village of Mulbekh in Little Tibet for more than ten years now. Their latest project is called Czech Science…
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Czech philanthropists donate record sum to science
A private Czech foundation has decided to donate an unprecedented sum of money in the history of Czech philanthropy to science. Hana and Dalimil Dvořák, both leading…
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Czech planetary defence lead Nikola Schmidt: “It is never good to go public about an asteroid…
For nearly two years now, a group of Czech scientists and academics has been working on a national planetary defence strategy for the Czech Republic, funded by a…
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My work day is never the same, says Czech polar ecologist Marie Šabacká
The young Czech scientist Marie Šabacká has spent a considerable part of her working life in the Arctic, Antarctic and other remote areas, studying ecology of polar…
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