Science and technology
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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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Czech experts join world scientists’ warning about climate change becoming an emergency
More than 11,000 scientists from all over the world, including dozens of experts from the Czech Republic, have signed a report which for the first time labels climate…
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UK exhibition presents Czech innovations past and present
An exhibition currently underway at the Czech Centre London and in the Library of Birmingham celebrates a centenary of Czech discoveries and inventions and the emerging…
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“It might be the secret to our recent success as a species” – Michael Londesborough on the science…
It may not sound as romantic as being struck by Cupid’s arrow, but feelings of love and lust are very much the result of chemical reactions within our body, says Dr…
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