Humankind loves plastics. Despite growing public awareness of the negative environmental impact of traditional oil-based plastics, plastic use has increased 20-fold in the last 50 years, with growth ex ...
A team of Slovak doctors from the University Hospital in Bratislava led by brain surgeon Andrej Šteňo, managed to develop a new safer technique to operate deep-seated tumors in the brain.
Science isn't just for scientists; regular folk can play crucial roles in research & healthcare too. This is what the Sparks na slovensku (Sparks in Slovakia) exhibition is trying to prove in an ef ...
A new hands-on science centre has recently opened in the capital city, Bratislava. Called the Aurelium zážitkové centrum vedy, or Aurelium experience centre of science, its primary mission is the popul ...
Neoplastic cells are the building blocks of cancerous tumours. They're mutants; sometimes harmless, sometimes not. But what turns normal, healthy cells into these neoplastic killers, and equally import ...
Imagine you live in Slovakia, suddenly feel an abdominal pain so strong that makes you feel you can't wait until your general practitioner has some slots free for you, and decide you need to visit the ER department.
Gene Cernan, the last man to ever set foot on the surface of the moon, was an American who was proud of his Slovak roots.
Is it solely better money that lures Slovakia's best and brightest scientific researchers to foreign lands, or something more? Almost 30 thousand young people under the age of 30 are leaving Slovakia ...
Over the past half a year RSI has taken a look at the topic of pathogens' increased resistance to antibiotics, an issue which has been worrying healthcare professionals around the world as they risk ru ...
Imagine you go to a hospital for a routine surgery. Everything seems fine with you until at some point you might have a surprise: an infection which the laboratory says was caused by something with a strange Latin name be it Klebsiella, Staphylococus aureus, Clostridium difficile and so on.
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