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19 May 2012 - GEOLOGY
Mathematics can explain the end of Pompeii
Vesuvius enters into the history of volcanology with the 79 AD eruption, which was described very accurately in the letter sent to Tacitus by Plinius the Young, who could observe its whole...
Simone Lepore | Geology | 66 visits
16 Feb 2012 - Phisics
Some notes on Nicola Cabibbo
1. Universal Weak Interactions
Luciano Maiani | Science history, Physics | 310 visits
07 Feb 2012 - Botany
The two opposite pathways in the evolution of flowers
The definition of what a flower is remains an important question in botany. One generally makes a distinction between flowers and inflorescences, although this distinction is not always clear, as in...
Louis Ronse De Craene | Occhio e vista | 424 visits
06 Feb 2012 - Environment
Are We in the Sixth Mass Extinction?
Are plants intelligent? It would seem so, judging by the program of the new edition of “Evolution Day”, dedicated to the marvelous world of plants and their "intelligence" (Milan, Museum of Natural...
Luca Carra | Biology | 249 visits
18 Nov 2011 - Energy
Cold fusion bolognese-style
The Journal of nuclear physics is the only source of official information with regard to the announced, but never confirmed, forthcoming energy revolution: the E-Cat, a device developed by engineer...
Marco Milano | Energia | 333 visits
16 Nov 2011 - Environment
Italy's poisons, now there is a map
Luca Carra | Environment, Epidemiology | 449 visits
16 Nov 2011 - Cosmology
Clouds, the most exciting spectacle after the Big Bang
The announcement of the discovery of two gas clouds that have formed in the first minutes after the Big Bang was published in Science; the clouds composition confirms theoretical predictions. The...
Claudio Elidoro | Cosmologia | 267 visits
26 Sep 2011 - Neutrino
Neutrino OPERA experiments
After 3 years of data taking in the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN with the OPERA detector at LNGS, and several months of analysis and checks, a really unexpected result has come out last week: the...
Antonio Ereditato | Dark matter, Physics | 785 visits
28 Apr 2011 - Biology
The big question: is there life out there?
Gottfried Schatz | Biology | 893 visits
18 Apr 2011 - Biochimica
Copper kills bacteria: end of hospital-acquired infections?
Prof. Hans Bärlocher left the hospital after a long working day. Outside the building, he took a deep breath of fresh Spring air; then, he smelled his right hand. Yes, it had the faint, but typical...
Marc Solioz | Infections, Medicine | 1.907 visits
09 Apr 2011 - Physics
History of a "mutant" neutrino
The international collaboration of OPERA experiment located at the Gran Sasso national laboratories -National Institute of Nuclear Physics-, in a seminar held yesterday at the laboratory, announced...
Antonio Ereditato | | 945 visits
08 Apr 2011 - Health
The cost of pollution
On March 2, in Paris, the European Aphekom project, coordinated by the French Institute for public health surveillance (InVS), presented the results of a three-year study on air pollution and its...
Luca Carra | Environment, Epidemiology | 900 visits
08 Apr 2011 - Astronomy
Astronomical Ichnology
Ichnology is the branch of paleontology that deals with the study of footprints left by animal organisms. Ichnology thus studies the width, length and shapes of footprints, stride (the distance...
Tommaso Maccacaro | ASI, Astronomy | 1.023 visits
14 Mar 2011 - Evolution
What Darwin Got Wrong: summary of replies to our critics
On our book and its receptionThe first edition of our book What Darwin got wrong was first published early in 2010. It was intended to raise two objections to the Theory of Natural Selection (...
Massimo Piattelli Palmarini | Biology | 885 visits
31 Jan 2011 - History of science
Regnault, the patient physicist in pursuit of objectivity
In these hurried times the adverb coming up in the writings of Henry-Victor Regnault, renowned chemist and physicist born in Aix-la Chapelle (France) now Aachen,(Germany) on 21 July 1810, may seem...
Marco Taddia | Science history, Physics foto | 2.274 visits
31 Dec 2010 - Climatology
Climate change in Italy: what do we really know?
How will climate change in Italy? What will be the consequences for the country? Despite criticism by "climate deniers", a hundred of Italian scientists working in various capacities on climate...
Luca Carra | Environment, Climatology foto video | 2.306 visits
13 Dec 2010 - Mathematics
Bubbles, drops and balls
Why - and when - are they round? Splashing water and soap bubbles, drops of rain or dew, condensation on the cold surface of a glass, on which to write with the tip of a finger. Games that we began...
Antonio DeSimone | Mathematics | 1.137 visits
11 Dec 2010 - Climate
In Cancun modesty is prized
After being mistreated and ignored, the 16th Conference of Parties to the UN convention on Climate Change recently concluded in Cancun, seems to have been a success well above expectations. The...
Massimo Tavoni | Environment, Global Problems, Climatology | 615 visits
10 Dec 2010 - Space
Big Bang as the beginning of time: science or myth?
Was there ever really a beginning of everything? Including time? One can hardly imagine a more existential question in the spirit of each human being. Philosophies and religions have approached...
Gabriele Veneziano | Astronomy, Physics | 617 visits
01 Dec 2010 - OGM
OGM against world famine
Transgenic plants for food security in the context of development Extract from a ‘statement’ published in Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development. NewBiotechnology Vol. 27/...
Ingo Potrykus | Ogm, Biology approfondimento | Discuss 1.228 visits