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20 Feb 2012 - Research and innovation
Seven ideas on research for Mr. Monti
Scientific research and innovation are one of the challenges that will decide Italy's future. The 2003 Group (http://www.gruppo2003.org), which gathers scientists frequently quoted in the...
Gruppo 2003 | Italy, Scientific research policy | 367 visits
20 Feb 2012 - University
Italian and British Universities (and Dickens)
I thought about what could be done usefully to compare the Italian and British Universities systems, but it’s a daunting task. But I can’t help noticing how many of your colleagues have worked at...
Alan Ponter | Scientific research institution, Scientific research policy | Discuss 441 visits
09 Jan 2012 - Art and science
The finest science essayist speaks about 'body art'
 
Marco Milano | Scientific edition, Art and science | 530 visits
05 Dec 2011 - Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
In memory of Ennio Esposito
Ennio Esposito, well-known neurophysiologist and neuropharmacologist, died suddenly of a heart attack, on October 23, 2011, in Guardiagrele (Chieti). For over 20 years, Ennio Esposito headed the...
Silvio Garattini | Neuroscience | 259 visits
21 Nov 2011 - Medicine
Steve Jobs, his illness and alternative medicine
How comes that such a smart and visionary person like Steve Jobs - who was a friend of physicians and scientists and had trusted first-rate doctors - when it came to his own health, made the wrong...
Giuseppe Remuzzi | Tumori | 436 visits
17 Nov 2011 - Ethic and research
European judges and embryonic stem cells
Following the article by Alessandro Blasimme, Giovanni Boniolo picks up the discussion on the recently approved EU ruling on stem cell research, trying to define and clarify the situation.
Giovanni Boniolo | Bioethics | 349 visits
30 Sep 2011 - Fibonacci
Nature by numbers
The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth...
Manuel Cristobal Vila Laguarta | Art and science | 773 visits
03 Feb 2011 - Research Observatory
Korea in the knowledge economy
According to current news Korea is a country involved in a military confrontation around the 48th parallel, which is just as dangerous as it is anachronistic, the last of the Cold War conflicts. For...
Pietro Greco | Research and development, Asia grafici | 1.094 visits
15 Dec 2010 - Cognitive science
Aesthetic appreciation: gender difference
Much work has been carried out to identify the neural correlates of the appreciation of beauty of faces, visual art, dance and music (Aharon 2001; Cela-Conde 2004; Jacobsen 2006; Kawabata 2004; O'...
Camilo José Cela-Conde, Julia Frimodt Christensen, Marcos Nadal Roberts | Brain and nerves, Biology | 1.395 visits
15 Oct 2010 - Bioethics
Tissue donation in the fight against cancer
When you discover you have cancer, the first and only thought coming to mind is to get rid of it. No one certainly comes out with the rather morbid idea of asking the surgeon for the removed tissue...
Roberto Satolli | Ethics and science, Tumors | 871 visits
08 Oct 2010 - Research
Pakistan universities after deluge
Upset by drastic budget cuts imposed by the finance ministry, the vice-chancellors of 71 public sector universities are threatening to resign en-bloc. They rightly say that development projects are...
Pervez Hoodbhoy | Research and development, Asia | 766 visits
26 Sep 2010 - High Education
A fuzzy didactical experience
Here is a proposal for a new interdisciplinary didactical experience.  
Enric Trillas | Mathematics | 1.510 visits
19 Jul 2010 - Africa
Africa: renaissance will stem from science
Neither a silent revolution, nor a stormy one. What Africa needs is a scientific revolution that trains a new generation of scientists towards the resolution of its most urgent problems. More than 40...
Mohamed Hassan | Africa, Research and development | 828 visits
15 Feb 2010 - Science and religion
Jesuits and Galileo: tradition and adventure of discovery
This paper investigates the tensions within the Society of Jesus, especially at the Roman College, at the time of Galileo and how they were resolved or not in a spirit of accommodation which was...
George Coyne | Astronomy, Science history | 3.804 visits
04 Jun 2009 - Nuclear power
Pakistan and the bomb
Eleven years ago a million Pakistanis danced in the streets after six nuclear weapons had been successfully tested. They had been told that making nuclear bombs was the biggest thing a country could...
Pervez Hoodbhoy | Military science | 1.297 visits
03 Apr 2009 - Petition
Nerviano Medical Sciences must be saved!
Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), a centre at the cutting edge of pharmaceutical research in the field of oncology, is in danger of closure, leaving 650 researches unemployed.  While  other...
Alberto Mantovani | Scientific research institution | 4.085 visits
07 Jan 2009 - Evolutionism
Can our children inherit traits which we acquire during our
Already half a century ago, the American biologist Tracy Morton Sonneborn (1905 - 1981) observed that the single-cell animal Paramecium aurelia can transmit acquired surface scars to its offspring....
Gottfried Schatz | Biology | 23.810 visits