Scientist of the Year awards for 2014
Fedor Gömöry from the Slovak Academy of Sciences' (SAV) Electrotechnical Institute was chosen as the country's best male scientist for research into magnetic fields.
1. 6. 2015 | 16:24
Články / Science and nature
Money can’t buy you good health...because it is misspent
Slovakia is at a similar level with Sweden and Belgium in terms of money spent on healthcare as share of the public purse but you can barely find a Slovak patient who dares to compare the quality of th ...
19. 5. 2015 | 15:54
Can money buy a smile?
At the beginning of this week the Children's University Hospital in Bratislava posted on their Facebook page a thank you note from the family of a patient. Nothing unusual you might say, if you are not ...
5. 5. 2015 | 13:35
Waiting for a heart or a kidney
Currently 443 people in Slovakia wait for a donor to give them an organ, about a tenth of them might die on the waiting list.
22. 4. 2015 | 13:13
Dementia- the calm before the storm
Despite the fact that demographers say Slovakia's population is ageing fast, available data show a relatively low prevalence of dementia in this country, 5.5 percent of Slovaks older than 60.
1. 4. 2015 | 10:55
Slovaks in the Guatemalan rainforest
The ancient Mayan culture, which belongs to the Mesoamerican civilisations, has quite a strong connection with Slovakia. Sounds unbelievable?
17. 3. 2015 | 16:11
The soul is more fragile than you might think
„Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity," says the World Health Organization (WHO).
16. 3. 2015 | 15:26
Removing toxic waste from a Bratislava forest
Despite painting a permanently rosy picture through a state-controlled media, the formerly Communist regime of Czechoslovakia left its fair share of dirty secrets behind. One of them was a disused ston ...
12. 3. 2015 | 17:05
Slovakia joins European Space Agency
What would 1.4 million euro buy you? A few cars? A luxury apartment? Perhaps some fine art. Next question: will you get a return on your investment? This is the situation facing Slovakia, as last week it signed its membership - at long last - into an exclusive club: The European Space Agency.
12. 3. 2015 | 17:04
Anti-virus computer lab opens in Bratislava
$400 billion USD, €353 billion, or £257 billion. That's the conservative figure on how much cybercrime costs the global economy. From internet phishing scams - such as fake bank emails to computer viru ...
12. 3. 2015 | 17:03
