Články / Science and nature

Depression costs Slovakia €71 million per year

Depression costs Slovakia €71 million per year

About 300,000 people in Slovakia have been diagnosed with suffering from bouts of depression of varying intensities. Mental health experts, however, estimate that the real number of those struggling wi ...

How understanding DNA is helping cancer treatment

How understanding DNA is helping cancer treatment

One of the things that leads to various cancer diseases is damaged DNA. Although the human body has natural mechanisms to repair DNA when it's damaged, sometimes these mechanisms fail to work correctly ...

The future of ‘quantum information technology’

The future of ‘quantum information technology’

On 3rd September 2019, American physicist Mark Hillery was awarded the Slovak Academy of Science's annual International Prize for his work in the field of quantum mechanics - in particular for his 25-y ...

The future of global internet connectivity

The future of global internet connectivity

The future of internet connectivity is wide open, with technologies like 5G and satellite networks promising to make super-high speeds the new 'norm'. Daniel Sors Raurell represents a British-based com ...

Your life depends on mitochondria

Your life depends on mitochondria

No doubt many of you are not aware that your life depends on something called a "mitochondrion" - one of several 'organelles', or tiny organs, involved in the functional structure of a living cell.

Last man on Moon

Last man on Moon

These days we commemorate 50 years since the first man, Neil Armstrong, stepped on the Moon. But do you know who was the last man to walk on the Moon? American astronaut with Slovak heritage, Eugene A. ...

How chess masters cope with new technologies

How chess masters cope with new technologies

The impact of new technologies - for better and for worse - is often felt within the small world of chess grandmasters long before it is felt by the larger society the rest of us inhabit.

There is help out there

There is help out there

People in Slovakia search the internet for the topic "suicide" 1,000 times per month on average, and 1,600 times for the expression "how to kill yourself", according to the findings of a group of psych ...

How Artificial Intelligence can help Africans diagnose malaria

How Artificial Intelligence can help Africans diagnose malaria

I speak with Cambridge University student Filip Ayazi, a Slovak from Trenčin, about how AI and new methods of do-it-yourself manufacturing are promising to make diagnosing malaria much more affordable for poor African regions, as well as more efficient and accurate.

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