Hyde Park Civilizace

What causes Alzheimer's disease or type 2 diabetes? Misfolded proteins - this was discovered by professor Christopher Dobson. He and his colleagues opened a new path for treating diseases that affect hundreds of million of people. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…9411058090316/

I hated science, I thought it was rather boring - no room for creativity or imagination, says baroness Susan Greenfield, professor of physiology at the University of Oxford. But her approach has changed a lot since than. Through philosophy and psychology she eventually got into neuroscience, she wrote ten books for general public as a part of popularization of science. Her research focuses for exa...

He captured a photon and let it fly around in a box into which he sent some atoms, then he asked the atoms what could they tell him about the photon – Serge Haroche, laureate of the 2012 Nobel prize in physics. He invented new methods that enable the measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems, what is their potential use? Perhaps faster computers and better lasers but for now this...

He described a process that helps molecules to identify one another - for example this means that drugs can recognize which cell to kill and which to let live, Jean-Marie Lehn, laureate of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The founder of supramolecular chemistry who says that chemistry is trying to build bridge between physics and biology. Why does he consider the periodic table of elements to be...

She worked for Boeing, then for NASA, now for Virgin Hyperloop One. Or in other words - she worked on ion engines, developed the parachute that slowed down Curiosity before it landed on Mars and now is trying to figure out how to transport people at 700 km/h - Anita Sengupta. She says that everything thats happened in her life was serendipity. Was it really? How many calculations and tests did it...

He took the first step towards creating a molecular machine - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His study of photosynthesis opened up a new direction that eventually led to the development of nanocars. These would one day deliver drugs within our body, though he focuses on fundamental research. How did he start bonding molecules? Why is it so difficult to make art...

Extreme weather fluctuations, icebergs melting, ocean levels rising - these are just some of the impacts of climate change. And the consequences for mankind are huge and will get even bigger unless we manage to respond. But how? What are the possible scenarios, what influences them, what can governments do and what can we do as individuals? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…hillipe-ciais/

Most people's acts in economics are not driven by logic or rational thought but by their experience, says professor Vernon Smith who in 2002 received Swedens Central bank Prize in Economic Sciences, known as the Nobel Prize in Economics. He focuses on experiments describing how people behave when they trade. How does our decision-making change as we gradually gain more information? How have his ex...

"Operování je jako vrcholový sport." Říká jeden z největších českých specialistů v oboru páteřní chirurgie, profesor Jan Štulík. Ročně zvládne až 550 operací, některé trvají i 20 hodin. O novinkách v chirurgii páteře i o tom, jak se chovat k našim zádům. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090201/

From Switzerland to China and then to North Korea, thats the journey taken by the humanitarian Katharina Zellweger. She first came to North Korea in 1995, since then shes been there 70 times. She helped during the floods as well as famine. How did she deal with the North Korean regime? Is there a place in the country where she would like to go but was never allowed? And how is the North Korean soc...

He created the first synthetic gene and contributed to the development of new kinds of DNA that can help diagnose diseases. Synthetic biologist Stephen Banner - he also studies the origin of life itself, partially in collaboration with NASA. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…steven-benner/

I'm a maker of magma chambers, says volcanologist Kayla Iacovino who in her lab simulates what's going on under the surface in a volcano's magma chamber. But she also does a lot of field work - she worked in Antarctic, Chille or in North Korea. What is she able to discover about the past and the future of volcano? What helps her simulate such gigantic forces of nature like pressure and temperature...

I listen to neurons but brain speaks in symphony, that's why you need to listen to multiple neurons at once - says neuroscientist and anesthesiologist Divya Chander who works at Faculty in medicine of Singularity University. Using EEG she listens to the brain to find out what is really happening inside, this allows her to study our consciousness and new ways of helping people for example with Park...

The Feustels. Together, they represent a very broad palette of skills and interests, from geology and geophysics through speech-language pathology and neuroscience to aviation. Astronaut Andrew Feustel is on his third mission – he was on the ISS once before, for less than two weeks, and is the second to last person to touch the Hubble Space Telescope. On each flight, he took with him items connect...

The head of exploration missions on Mars. He managed exploration rover projects Spirit and Opportunity. He researches the surface of the red planet and participates in preparations for a human mission to Mars. The guest of Hyde Park Civilization was NASA astrogeologist James W. Rice, who came to the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Academy of Sciences of the CR. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/...

From European Southern Observatory's headquarters, to La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. From planet hunter, spectrograph HAARPS, to the most advanced optical device on Earth, the VLT, to ALMA, array of 66 radiotelescopes in the altitude of more than 5 000 meters. We visited places that help us to learn more and more about the universe. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…atory-special/

A cleanup in the cell without which we wouldn't survive. That's autophagy - a process in which a cell gets ris of it's damaged or unnecessary parts and which seems to be also crucial in the fight against certain diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, diabetes or cancer. Autophagy was described by professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and for this he received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology o...

It looks like nothing is the mother of us all says professor Edward Kolb - cosmologists and astrophysicist also known by his nickname Rocky. In his research he focuses among other things on the very beginnings of our universe, on dark matter and dark energy. How can we find out what makes up 95% of our universe and what properties does it have? What was there before the Big Bang and how should we...

He's the man who was there - during the last days of the MIR space station as well as the early days of the International Space Station. He was a member of the first crew that started the project of uninterrupted human presence around Earth that continues to this day. He is the first Russian to fly a spaceshuttle, he spent a total of 803 days, nine hours and 38 minutes in space. www.ceskatelevize....

He described a system that allows our DNA to repair itself, without these constant repairs, we wouldn't survive. Professor Paul Modrich, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He entered the big world of science from a relatively close community of a small town. He started saving for college already in junior high school, he ordered his first radioactive material at age 15. For dozens of y...

He builds machines that are thousand times smaller than a width of a hair. And with them he might cause revolution in medicine and in other fields. Professor Ben Feringa, laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He managed to construct nanocars that can drive and could in the future for example deliver drugs inside the body. The system could also help in the fight against antibiotics resista...

As the head of the Atlas detector, she was there when the Higgs boson was detected. As the head of CERN, she decides about the organization's future development. Fabiola Gianotti, director-general of the largest scientific center on Earth. She can combine music, mathematics and particle physics as well as coordinate physicist from all over the world including the Czech Republic. What have they alr...

Seven rocky planet, three of them in the habitable zone and all of them close to Earth. At least from the cosmic point of view. That is the Trappist-one system. It was discovered partially thanks to the scientists from the European Southern Observatory and it's far from their only success. They have also found our nearest exoplanet, observed stars orbiting the massive black hole in the center of o...

Go after your curiosity. You need to have more curiosity. Even more curiosity. But it’s not enough to be curious. You have to have passion. Says Professor Ada E. Yonath. She comes from a poor family, but eventually made her way to the highest levels of science. She studies ribosomes – factories inside cells that translate our genetic information and produce proteins. Without them, life as we know...

The first person who climbed all 14 eight-thousanders. The first person who climbed Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, the first person who climbed Mount Everest alone. A man who often went where no one went before. A man who says "summit is secondary, trying is the most important thing". Reinhold Messner. Mountaineer, traveller, adventurer. He crossed Gobi desert, North and South Pole and...