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A Boy And His Atom

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A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
Subject: 
Guinness World Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film
Date: 
3 May, 2013
Source: 
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
Author: 
IBM
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This movie holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film (how it was made at http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA).

Sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture

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Sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture - Mark Holder
Subject: 
Mark Holderness shares his views about the sustainable use of genetic resources
Date: 
2 May, 2013
Source: 
Sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture - Mark Holder
Author: 
FAOoftheUN
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Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), shares his views about the sustainable use of genetic resources, equitability, role of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and its synergies with GFAR.

Importance of Science and Technology to the Nation's Future

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President Obama Stresses Importance of Science and Technology to the Nation's Future
Subject: 
Barack Obama reiterated his strong support for science and technology
Date: 
29 April, 2013
Source: 
President Obama Stresses Importance of Science and Technology to the Nation's Future
Author: 
The National Academies

President Barack Obama reiterated his strong support for science and technology in this speech to members of the National Academy of Sciences at its 150th annual meeting. Science, technology, engineering, and medicine are critical to the nation's prosperity, Obama said, noting that investments made today are bound to pay off for many years to come.

H7N9 Bird Flu

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H7N9 Bird Flu - One Minute Medical School
Subject: 
On 29 March 2013 first cases involving human fatality ever known were reported
Date: 
9 April, 2013
Source: 
H7N9 Bird Flu - One Minute Medical School
Author: 
One Minute Medical School
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H7N9 is a previously little known bird flu found mainly in chickens. On 29 March 2013, the first cases involving human fatality ever known were reported.

Planck's almost perfect Universe

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Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe
Subject: 
The Planck's most detailed map of the cosmic background radiation ever created.
Date: 
23 March, 2013
Author: 
ESA
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Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background -- the relic radiation from the Big Bang -- reveales the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe.

"This image is the closest reportage yet of the Big Bang. You are looking 13.8 billion years ago.This is a giant leap in the understanding of the origins of the universe," the ESA's director general Jean-Jacques Dordain told in the press conference in Paris.

A meeting with Andrew Herbert Knoll

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An interview with Andrew H. Knoll
Subject: 
Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, guest at "Voglia di Scienza" in Milan.
Date: 
17 March, 2013
Source: 
An interview with Andrew H. Knoll
Author: 
GIUSEPPE NUCERA, FABIO PERELLI
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Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History at the Harvard University, is the guest of "Voglia di Scienza", series of scientific lectures promoted by Università Statale of Milan.
We have interviewed Andrew H. Knoll after his two lectures "Systems paleobiology" and "The deep history of life".

Audience's questions after Baulcombe's speech

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Audence's questions after Baulcombe's speech at Evo Day 2013
Subject: 
David Charles Baulcombe answers to the audience questions during the EvoDay 2013
Date: 
20 February, 2013
Author: 
Giuseppe Nucera, Marco Milano
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David Charles Baulcombe answers to the audience questions after his specch during the Evolution Day 2013 at the Natural History Museum in Milan.

Sir David Charles Baulcombe: Epigenetics, another dimension in evolution?

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David Charles Baulcombe - Evolution Day 2013 Milano
Subject: 
Sir David Charles Baulcombe, Regius Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge
Date: 
17 February, 2013
Author: 
Giuseppe Nucera, Marco Milano
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Heritable variation between members of a population is normally attributed to genetic variation. Genes affecting fitness may be present or absent in different individuals or they may have dna mutations affecting their expression or the properties of the encoded protein. However, there are examples of heritable variation that are not associated with changes to the sequence of dna.

How a Virus Changes the World

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Contagion: How a Virus Changes the World
Subject: 
The consequences of an infectious virus creating havoc in the human population
Date: 
14 January, 2013
Source: 
Contagion: How a Virus Changes the World
Author: 
TakePart

"Contagion" the film from Warner Bros and Participant Media, explores the consequences of an infectious virus creating havoc in the human population. But, how do viruses affect humans, and what causes worldwide pandemics?
If you'd like to get the answers and learn more about how to stay prepared, see: takepart.com

Creative: Denizen
Production: Foundation

The preventable uncertainty

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L'incertezza evitabile
Subject: 
The story of Alessandro Liberati's disease tell us about a new kind of medicine.
Date: 
9 January, 2013
Source: 
L'incertezza evitabile
Author: 
Roberto Satolli, Patrizia Pasqui, Mario Spallino
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Between research and communication, this video talks about the avoidable uncertainty in medicine, trough the story of Alessandro Liberati (dead the first of january 2012 beacause of a multiple myeloma). This is how we can imagine a new kind of medicine and research, following an intensive and terrific disease experience. 

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