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Different genomes (DNA) in cells of individuals produce genomic mosaicism¹. Is this heresy, offending the central dogma of …
The evaluation on the carcinogenicity of red meat by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – and not by WHO as …
The twenty-first UN Conference of the Parties on climate change will address the issue of gender inequality also with respect to …
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Today, during the press conference held at the Italian Senate, the Gruppo 2003 for scientific research made a statement through …
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In a world in which chemists assemble devices and machines billion times smaller than the usual ones, it is possible to develop …
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On July 22^(nd), all the European Ministers for Research were in Milan to lay the foundation stone of the European Network for …
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Last July 2014 the Forest Guards of the Friuli Venezia Region destroyed two GMO corn fields both owned by Giorgio Fidenato. In …
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If continuity means importance, research and energy have been confirmed as a priority for the European Union, at least in its …
Talking about public health in Europe today also means talking about migration. Nowadays, according to the World Health …
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Political relations between Europe and Turkey have never been easy and even in scientific research, often over the parts, the …
The relationships between science and international politics are a hot topics at the moment and there are several key players in …
An increasing complexity seems to characterize the scenario of the European drug problem. The picture that emerges from the EU …
Talking about the European Region does not mean speaking of a homogeneous situation, also from the point of view of health. To …
Every attendant of the FENS today spent some of his time to greet and share the contact with the most relevant colleagues found …
The fourth day of the FENS has been characterized by the controversial absence of Yoshiki Sasai, whose participation to the …
The third day of the FENS Forum opens with one negative note, the knowledge that the conference already reached his half-life. …
Sunday. Second day of the FENS. When the poster session started. It will gather almost 4,000 posters until the end of the congress
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The relationship between genetic heritage and environment has considerable effects on health and healthcare. Individual …
“We change when we change the way we learn”. In today's society this must be more than a slogan, it should be a real mantra, a …
The biggest surprise in the European Parliament elections has been the victory of the so called Eurosceptic and Europhobic …
Nowadays, the impact of packaging as a byproduct of the food industry fortunately has become a topic of much discussion when we …
The science journal Nature, one of the most widespread in the world, dedicates three pages of its last issue (June 19) to Elena …
On May 12, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and the International Centre for …
Climate change today is a reality. It involves lot of problems, the toughest ones being the loss of biodiversity, the rise of sea …
According to the Special Eurobaromer 409, around one out of six Europeans think that climate change is the single most serious …
Filling the gap in digital infrastructures might not be enough to put Italy in line with countries that are more mature in taking …
A future without effective antibiotics for some infections is possible. Only 70 years ago, penicillin discovery have changed …
Standards are a vital component of communication. In 1984, while working for CSELT, the research center of what is today Telecom …
I am an astrophysicist, and my research focuses on the formation and evolution of galaxies. In particular, I develop analytical …
Through the years and the development of pharmacology, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health threat of broad …
In May 22-25^(,) European citizens will decide who will lead the Union for the next five years. Despite being the eighth general …
Scientific misconduct is a real problem, although in many countries it is still underestimated. Fabrication or falsification of …
Our brain could resemble a circuit: 80 billion neurons and perhaps a hundred trillion synapses are interconnected within a complex …
Two aspects remain etched firmly after a talk with Andrea Lunardi and Graziano Martello, two "made in Italy" brains that have …
What the economic crisis has clearly shown is that Europe cannot afford its economic growth with low R&D manufacturing products. …
A specific call of Horizon 2020 promotes cooperation between Europe and Africa for scientific research, funding project for €80 …
Recently, the Internet of Things Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan conducted an analysis of 116 cities (51 in …
The Scientific Council of CNRS (Comitè National de la Recherche Scientifique) has raised alert toward the political power and the …
Sixteen digits. Nature has called it "online science passport". More than half a million researchers have already joined the …
Last December, newspapers around the World have given space on their pages to the Chinese moon landing attempt, which …
European research is fundamental for guaranteeing future competitiveness to our economies, as acknowledged by all EU member States …
In a review on the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine and chair of an …
One of the most unknown places, still far from being explored and fully understood, is not only the deep universe: it is our brain
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There is no good evidence about the effectiveness of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir) for influenza prevention and …
European women are currently underrepresented in the aerospace sector. In Italy, as reported by the Ministry of Education, …
Africa is not the most rapidly growing HIV epidemic region: it is Eastern Europe. Out of a total 2.2 millions people living with …
As part of the European programme Horizon 2020, which has allocated € 70 billion for research and innovation, Sapienza …
PLATO 2.0 (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) has recently been selected for European Space Agency’s (ESA) M3 launch …
The trend of natural disasters has increased during the 20^(th) century. In particular, hydrological disasters have acquired big …
The world of research today is a highly competitive environment, similar to a liberist market. Researchers are under pressure for …
The legislative decree recently approved by the Council of Ministers for the implementation of EU 2010/63 directive is full of …
Although the scientific performance of the Western Balkan countries (WBC) has improved in recent years, the lack of human …
A real earthquake has been shacking the international scientific community over the last few days. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center …
Dietary micronutrient deficiencies, such as the lack of vitamin A, iodine, iron or zinc, are a major source of morbidity …
In a world of 1s and 0s... are you a zero, or The One?) Every year, as reported by the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda …
In Europe, people aged more than 50 years old are about 150 million. Prevention, care and cure regarding aged people are core …
The epidemics of heart failure (HF) represents a challenge for the National Health System: despite advances over the past 30 …
“The food and drink industry is the largest manufacturing industry in the European Union, generating turnover of €956 billion in …
A century has passed since the Nobel prizes in physics in 1914 and 1915 were awarded to recognize the importance of X-ray …
Do you remember A Sound of Thunder, a short story by Ray Bradbury published in 1952? During a time travel's safari, the …
It happened again: after the Israeli case, Horizon 2020 is anew in the middle of a political clash. This time the situation is …
Between 5 and 6^(th) February, INFN met the delegations from the American Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science …
Space, the final frontier. The first series of Star Trek started in 1966, following the interstellar adventures of Captain James …
I am researcher at the Physics Department of the University La Sapienza of Rome. With the present contribution, I would like to …
A deep understanding of the relation between genetic mutations and immune system response of the attacked organism is vital for …
Presently, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector represents 4.8% of the EU economy. According to the …
The University of Trento is leading the CIVIS project, with the aim of raising awareness on energy saving through the active …
Horizon 2020 finally goes into the executive phase. It is the new European funding system for research and innovation, that is now …
Who and how many are the protagonists of Italian research in Europe? Scienceonthenet aims at defining the geography of Italian …
Some weeks ago, the European Union released the planned quotas of investment in research for 2014, the first year of the new-born …
On the stage where the so-called “Stamina case” is being performed – a tragedy disguised as a farce – reflectors have not …
The kick-off of Horizon 2020 offers a good opportunity for evaluating the 7^(th) Framework Programme (FP7). We will do this …
GLOBOCAN project is a comprehensive cancer surveillance database managed by the International Association of Cancer Registries …
A report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs) claimed that flu vaccination allowed preventing about 6.6 …
Today, there are two main challenges dealing with scientific data management. As a recent paper showed, one big problem is the …
The last January 14^(th), the European Research Council (ERC) allocated 575 million euro within the first ERC Consolidator Grants …
Horizon 2020 identified space research as one of Europe's key industrial technologies. The Commission highlighted its potential …
In the future the augmented reality will play a key role in medicine and Italy is among the first in Europe to investigate this …
Investments in scientific research and technological development (R&D) are increasing again in the United States of America. After …
Concordia Station, which opened in 2005, is an Italian-French research facility in Antarctica. The tenth winter-over mission …
What will be the data environment in Horizon 2020? Modern science is facing a huge challenge in managing data. On one hand, every …
The Italian National Research Council (CNR) coordinates EuroChar, a European project dedicated to the development of technologies …
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recently released a technical report in support of the Council …
Do you know @HenryChesbrough? He used the term open innovation for the first time in 2003 and is now working as executive director …
“Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals”
The University of Milano Bicocca is a member of SYRA3, a Cost Action started in 2013 concerning Innovative Methods in Radiotherapy …
I met Camillo Ricordi just once. In my life as in my job, I have no enemies to strike or friends to justify. However, public …
The European Union, through Horizon 2020, will invest more than € 28 billion in innovative research to contrast the economic …
The vaccine against seasonal influenza is called trivalent, because it contains viruses representing three influenza strains: one …
For a lot of students it is like in the film L'Auberge Espagnole. Recently, the benchmark of the 3 million^(th) Erasmus student …
Italy is one of the best countries in Europe for cancer survival, as emerges from EUROCARE, a project started in 1989 under the …
Horizon 2020 starts-off with a wave of prime calls and more to follow, over the course of the year. Calls in the 2014 budget alone …
On November 27^(th), Iran, the US and the major European Countries reached an historical agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, …
Not a formal meeting, stiffened by the Senate’s protocol, was hosted last December 10 in the Koch Room of Palazzo Madama (“Meeting …
An effective and practical expenditure of public funds can lead to excellence: Denmark can be seen as a case study for this. The …
The investigative report Science published the last week documented something has been known for a long time: in China there is a …
The condition of Italian research is far from being positive. From some perspectives, it may be described as dramatic. The lack of …
After the dramatic death toll in the Philippines, it’s the time to evaluate also the damage caused to agriculture by Typhoon …
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. On November 12^(th)-15^(th) 2013, Bologna (Italy) hosted the Annual Meeting …
Being the largest research program funded by the European Union, Horizon 2020 (H2020) is becoming the arena even for non technical …
Few days ago the results of the project “AGER Innovapero: process and product innovations for quality pear-farming” has been …
Despite Italy investing so little in research, Italian researches are holding on, at least if we consider the number of cited …
On November 13^(th) 2013, a new Eurobarometer survey showed a wide public support for responsible research and innovation in the …
Xinxing daguo ganxi. If you are able to pronounce this properly, you know the keyword for future (science) diplomacy. Literally, …
The United Federation of Planets was founded in 2161 by the following members: Andoria, Earth, Tellar Prime, Vulcan. In 2373, the …
From the TELLME website With the winter at the door, influenza epidemics are a problem to deal with. Every year they cause …
Step by step, some improvement can be seen in our fight against the so called “superbugs”.
Challenging the mass. This, probably, will be the next big issue in science together with ethics and politics, as millions of …
The animal-right association "Animal Amnesty" announced a national demonstration in Milan on November 30^(th), against animal …
From TELLME website As recognized by many experts, the ongoing decline of public confidence in vaccines is one of the main …
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you
From the TELLME website Scientists interviewed by the media are not necessarily independent.
Bad weather means fever, cough, earache and more other symptoms. Flu, in a word. To monitor the trend of this illness, in Europe …
How to deal with the huge number of informations provided by scientific research today? And, how these informations can be …
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is a research center specialized in materials science.
(/files/irmmilanov1mappa1.png) Milan may be considered one of the main centers of Italian research, at least in its international …
On 22^(nd) October 2013, during the Italian Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy (IFIB) in Naples, Assobiotec and …
Agroindustrial is one of the sector that most contributes to the positive imagine of the “made in Italy”. Together with the …
In this brief review I summarize some major findings demonstrating the specific anatomical and functional features of the brain of …
According to Patrick Cunningham, professor of animal genetics and scientific consultant for the Irish Government, research needs …
The Scottish chemist William Ramsay (Glasgow, 1852 – High Wycombe, 1916) carried out the researches that made him famous in the …
Global Climate change is proceeding at a rate which surprises public opinion and, sometimes, even scientists. Data and models …
In three decades the world can change of a lot. And it did: Cold War ended and several others started; new nations were born while …
From the TELLME website An article recently published inSciencehas put forward a strong case for tapping into online sentiment and …
Horizon 2020 is taking shape. In June 2013, negotiators from EU Parliament, the Commission and the Irish Presidency of the Council …
Dear Romeo, we came a long way, together. It would have not been the same without you, for sure, not without your humanity, your …
With a budget of 3.3 billions euro and over 15 thousand researcher involved between 2007 and 2013, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie …
India is facing an aggressive outbreak of dengue fever – probably the worst in the last ten years – and risk communication from …
Does outdoor air pollution cause lung cancer deaths? IARC says it does. It is an historical day for epidemiology, toxicology and …
The Italian CNR - the National Research Council - will be turning 90 next November. Its President, Luigi Nicolais (a chemical …
In the most developed Countries (OECD Countries), 60% of young people enrolled into a University or a research institution in the …
Italian scientific research is slowly moving toward Far East. Following the “VietNam – Italy economic cooperation Forum” held in …
Reports about stem cell tourism and unproven stem cell therapies abound from all over the world. Over the last year or so, also …
In the last 15 years, European firms and public bodies have been more and more invited to invest in communication activity, in …
Roberto Fornari has been working on crystal growth for almost 30 years. In 2003, Fornari decided to move from Parma to Berlin to …
Commonly known as “start up nation”, Israel is still leading global scientific research, despite its little population and a …
The Bundesrat, the Federal Council that represents the sixteen German Länder, announced the introduction of secondary exploitation …
On Friday, 27 September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gathered in Stockholm closed the Twelfth Session of …
Quantifying the importance of a research center is a complex task. It is difficult to find an agreement on evaluation metrics – …
Paola Annoni – from the Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit of the Joint Research Centre, Ispra – and Lewis Dijkstra – from …
Adriano Buzzati Traverso will be remembered as scientist, professor and, above all, as manager of a research with no boundaries: …
The Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano, is one of the most mindful political figures in regards to science and its values. And …
“Why should we throw away assisted fertilization embryonic cells that will never be used? Shouldn’t we utilize them for research …
Italian universities lose ground within the international rankings. Our best institutions cannot keep pace with the others in the …
Just as happened in Italy after the VQR report has released, a counter-assessment was also given to the Jiao Tong University …
Science is an essential – If not predominant – component of contemporary culture. Yet, nowadays, some Italian politicians want to …
From August 22 to August 27, the XV International Congress of Immunology is underway in Milan, at the MiCo congress center. The …
Open access. Open access to scientific information.
The new research center :envihab at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne represents a bridge between the traditional …
Telethon Scientific and Medical Committee assigned few days ago the new grants for 2013. Projects selection is extremely rigorous …
“Chinese Universities are getting too successful. Tell them to stop. We need workers more than graduates. Workers are not enough, …
Our youngsters are keeping up despite the mounting difficulties. Italy, however, has lost any residual appeal. The ERC junior …
The development of models and tools for greater and more effective data sharing is currently one of the main objectives of …
Gruppo 2003 - the Italian Association of the Top 50 Italian Scientists - few days ago launched an appeal from its website …
“Science and diplomacy are naturally allied. Energy security, food safety, global warming or pandemics: there is no global …
“This is the biggest research evaluation ever carried out at international level. It is an x-ray scan we make available for the …
The National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research (the Italian acronym is ANVUR) presented today in Rome the final …
The definition of landmark studies attributed to the two studies published in Science that report the results obtained at the …
Women and men are different. This sentence can be considered trivial in scientific terms, since differences between females and …
A report by the European Science Foundation (ESF) offers numerous and excellent advice which can be applied when assessing …
A competition was launched by the European Commission in order to find the proper name for the new integrated funding system that …
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Ruslan Medzhitov has received the Else Kröner Fresenius Award. The award winner was identified in very close cooperation with the …
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The European Commission embarked on the preparation stages for the next financing program for research activities for the …
In view of the February 2013 elections, the Gruppo 2003 asked the politicians who were candidates as leaders for our Country to …
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The brain is probably the most complex structure in the known universe, complex enough to coordinate movements, gather and …
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As doctors and researchers we have been following with great dismay the news and statements regarding the possibility of treating …
The burden of diseases (BoD), i.e. the impact of diseases in terms of mortality and disability, has gained unprecedented …
It is so obvious, it appears trivial. The City of Science must be immediately rebuilt, back to there it was born. That same place …
In the short time span since 2009 to the present day, there have been more than 10 extreme events in Italy, with over 70 dead and …
Damages caused by earthquakes may be considered as the result of the geological characteristics of the sites where they occur. …
Who said that research does not pay? That this is not the case is demonstrated by the Human Genome Project, launched by the U.S. …
That graphene is the material of the future has been said in all the word's languages, or better, at least in all the European …
The digital revolution has radically changed the processes of production and dissemination of scientific results. Scientific …
Sir David Charles Baulcombe is currently Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany") at the University of …
Again this year, the Telethon marathon ensured 30 million euro a little more is expected in June, with the closing of the balance …
The theme of scientific research has been totally neglected in the election campaign, which has paid no more than lip service to …
The original idea behind this video was born from the conviction that the complex and ten-year illness of Alessandro Liberati – …
Evaluating research isn't easy. Not even in the United States, which is a country considered to be ahead of its time in this field
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A few days ago, the occupier on the fourth floor of the facing building and the one in which I live, changed the living room light …
Imagine about one thousand people equipped with smartphones which, in addition to the standard functions, serve to reveal using …
At present, there is lots of focus on discussions for MIUR (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) to establish an …
On the 13 November, some members of the European Parliament in Brussels, even via live streaming, discussed the research and …
Those amongst us, who, in the last year of secondary school, studied the Second World War, probably remember a rather dark and …
On Oct 17th, 2012, on the verge of the 2012 seasonal flu vaccine campaign, the Italian Ministry of Health suddenly announced the …
The L'Aquila verdict, which sentenced the members of the Major Risks Commission in office at the time of the earthquake in 2009, …
The death toll in Taranto shows a dramatic increase according to the updated data of the Sentieri Study- for the 2003-2009 period …
They were convicted with a harsh penalty: 6 years imprisonment. They were all convicted, the members of the Major Risks Commission …
One of the most overused phrases in this strange country is "you do not comment on judgments, you comply with them".
Ever since the ancient Olympics athletes have tried in all ways and with all means to prevail over their competitors in sporting …
The ethics of clinical tests is controversial. Paradoxically, instead of moving towards more and more protected conditions, some …
The announcement that the Nobel Prizes for Physiology and Medicine have been awarded to Sir John Gurdon (Cambridge) and Shinya …
Beginning from January 2014, 90% of scientific publications within the field of high energy physics will be freely available to …
The EBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute, is a research center of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) based at …
Googol. It is a large number, unimaginably large. It is easy to write in exponential format: 10¹⁰⁰, an extremely compact method, …
When we consider the factors that shape the future, both on an individual and collective basis, such as knowledge, training, …
Never. Impossible. Words we are learning to use with extreme caution in the language of science. As time goes by we become …
Neapolitan urban area and Campi Flegrei district represent a wide active volcanic system to which a very high volcanic risk is …
In order Anders Behring Breivik finally receives a verdict: he was sentenced to 21 years of “preventive detention” for the …
On Tuesday the 28th August, the European court of Human Rights declared the ruling that many couples wanting to have children were …
Everything started at the beginning of September in San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and …
The "Science & technology digital library" project, which is the subject of an agreement signed between the Ministry of Education, …
The costs would be high but not prohibitive: roughly 60 million pounds each year. But in return the Britannic Majesty's scientists …
Fukushima accident. Who should be blamed: nature or man? Now that the Investigation Commission of the National Diet of Japan has …
In 2009, for the first time, U.S. deaths linked to drug abuse exceeded those caused by road accidents see chart, according to the …
There is an idea of research policy that is making inroads in Italy and also in Europe: we should do as the U.S.A. does. Let us be …
Paolo Rossi, the historian of ideas who passed away at the beginning of the year, claimed that modern science began in the 17th …
Over the last months some epistemologically worrying events have occurred in the scientific community.
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NAIROBI, KENYA (5 July 2012) - A new global study mapping human-animal diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever finds …
We can define it "pill pollution”. Yes, we're talking about just that, the “birth control pill” which, in the last fifty years has …
It 's hard to describe my emotions during this 4 July 2012 when the discovery of the Higgs boson is being announced
The discovery of the Higgs boson is an extraordinary success for modern science and the technology associated with it. It …
The results presented today by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN are a step forward of extraordinary importance for our …
There is great excitement over the discovery of the Higgs particle. I am a physicist by profession and can easily feel this: these …
An old but effective drug against diabetes can also help in the fight against breast cancer. Probably, if administered to healthy …
In a single night of observation the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), which recently started operation in Cerro Paranal, can accumulate …
Smoking kills one person every six seconds and today it is under all respects one of the worst epidemic ever faced globally. The …
In a few days the European Court of Justice shall issue its ruling on lawsuit no. C--36/11, Pioneer Hi-Bred Italia Srl vs. MIPAF …
Geneva, 4 July 2012 Ladies and gentlemen here is the elusive, phantasmagorical, unreachable - and at the same time ubiquitous - …
Beijing's slopes are still "hot" after the results with which Usain Bolt astonished the whole world in 2008: the world 100 metres …
Usually Massimo Piatelli Palmarini chooses very interesting topics to comment on the "Corriere della Sera" and tells them …
With NASA’s Rocket Science 101, a new game designed for computers and iPad users by NASA, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist …
Low doses of aspirin reduce by 40% the recurrence of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, affecting 130,000 people every year …
In a diagram published in 1970 showing the distribution of pulsars in the Galaxy, there are about fifty points. In the same year, …
Cannabinoid Drugs and Medical Cannabis On 2 May, the Regional Council of Tuscany approved by majority vote a law that will make it …
Researchers working at universities or in independent research centers cannot by themselves change the fate of the sick.
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After 20 years there will be a re-edition of the World Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, United Nations Conference on …
The figures give an idea of what Maria Ines Colnaghi, the AIRC Scientific Director, considers to be a titanic task. The four new …
The announcement was made just a few days ago about the discovery of a never previously observed baryon, with a mass close to that …
There is increasing evidence that the presence of polluting industrial plants plays an important role in tumour aetiology, …
‘‘If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’’. It is nearly impossible to describe the essential role …
Vesuvius enters into the history of volcanology with the 79 AD eruption, which was described very accurately in the letter sent to …
Economic growth is the priority of every European government, and it can't come soon enough. How can universities help? Europe's …
The following is a summary of the speech that Sir Leszek Borysiewicz - Rector of the University of Cambridge - will give on May …
Minds of Modern Mathematics is the app created by IBM to describe as mathematicians and mathematics have shaped the world we live. …
Calculate (Medical Calculator) is a clinical calculator for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, BlackBerry and Android with more than 150 …
Scientific research and innovation are one of the challenges that will decide Italy's future. The 2003 Group (* which gathers …
I thought about what could be done usefully to compare the Italian and British Universities systems, but it’s a daunting task. But …
"The future can be yours! Last chance!" The motto of Jeffrey Goines, the character in the post-apocalyptic science fiction film …
1. Universal Weak Interactions In a famous book of 1961, Richard Feynman^(1) vividly described his and Murray Gell-Mann’s …
The definition of what a flower is remains an important question in botany. One generally makes a distinction between flowers and …
Are plants intelligent? It would seem so, judging by the program of the new edition of “Evolution Day”, dedicated to the marvelous …
Jürgen Neffe spent 7 months circumnavigating the globe, in order to relive the most famous journey in scientific history: Charles …
Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You …
Waiting for Evolution Day 2012 celebrations at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano on February 10th, 11th and 12th (live …
The recent call for applications for the next PRIN (and FIRB) Italian research programmes, whose expiration is forthcoming, …
“It began as a question, than it turned into an obsession” – It is possible, now, to describe the science ink and its application …
PubMed is a free database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library …
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from 3 …
Ennio Esposito, well-known neurophysiologist and neuropharmacologist, died suddenly of a heart attack, on October 23, 2011, in …
How comes that such a smart and visionary person like Steve Jobs - who was a friend of physicians and scientists and had trusted …
The Journal of nuclear physics is the only source of official information with regard to the announced, but never confirmed, …
Following the article by Alessandro Blasimme, Giovanni Boniolo picks up the discussion on the recently approved EU ruling on stem …
Italy is not just a country under water, plagued by rain and swept by the floods. Italy is also a country poisoned by the …
The announcement of the discovery of two gas clouds that have formed in the first minutes after the Big Bang was published in …
The mind map allows you to have an overview of an idea, to understand how it is structured and organized, its connections and …
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions so far observed in the universe since the big bang. They are a frequent …
The European Commission's proposal will be made public only at the end of next November. However, Nature magazine was recently …
The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in …
Another step towards a fair assessment of research projects comes again from the private sector: we are talking about the Cariplo …
After 3 years of data taking in the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN with the OPERA detector at LNGS, and several months of analysis …
In his recent article on Scienzainrete, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci mentioned it as a positive example. The Gruppo 2003 also cited it …
The Italian Constitution guarantees scientific freedom. Based on this affirmation, seemingly simple and obvious, the Document …
In 2010, the European Medicines Agency EMA has approved the lowest number of new drugs in the last decade. This is not surprising, …
Life on Mars: tracks from Opportunity probe (credit NASA / Corbis) Everything in the way we are would change profoundly if we …
Prof. Hans Bärlocher left the hospital after a long working day. Outside the building, he took a deep breath of fresh Spring air; …
Chemical and physical sciences have profoundly modified the living conditions of mankind, in particular chemistry has played a …
As a physicist, I have spent my life hoping that nuclear power could realize its potential. My teachers were scientists who had …
The international collaboration of OPERA experiment located at the Gran Sasso national laboratories -National Institute of Nuclear …
On March 2, in Paris, the European Aphekom project, coordinated by the French Institute for public health surveillance (InVS), …
Ichnology is the branch of paleontology that deals with the study of footprints left by animal organisms. Ichnology thus studies …
On our book and its reception The first edition of our book What Darwin got wrong was first published early in 2010
According to current news Korea is a country involved in a military confrontation around the 48th parallel, which is just as …
With Gaetano Di Chiara's work, "Scienza in rete" relaunches the debate on the assessment criteria overseeing research, which is …
The Central Committee of Steam Engine had commissioned him with this task because the knowledge of physical elements was necessary …
How will climate change in Italy? What will be the consequences for the country? Despite criticism by "climate deniers", a hundred …
Much work has been carried out to identify the neural correlates of the appreciation of beauty of faces, visual art, dance and …
Why - and when - are they round? Splashing water and soap bubbles, drops of rain or dew, condensation on the cold surface of a …
After being mistreated and ignored, the 16th Conference of Parties to the UN convention on Climate Change recently concluded in …
An epidemic of politics, this is what plagues science in many countries around the world, even in mature democracies like the …
Was there ever really a beginning of everything? Including time? One can hardly imagine a more existential question in the spirit …
Extract from a ‘statement’ published in Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context of Development. NewBiotechnology Vol. …
The pioneering work in the field of pair bonding by Thomas Insel and his group Insel and Young 2001, Young and Wang 2004 has …
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 …
Upset by drastic budget cuts imposed by the finance ministry, the vice-chancellors of 71 public sector universities are …
The standard model of cosmology, as opposed to the standard model of elementary particles, does not enjoy great generality: it is …
Year 1938. The director of the newly established National Institute of Geophysics (ING) launches an innovative project that fits …
Look up at the stars and ask yourself: what scares me more ? To be alone in the Universe, or to know that there is someone else up
Here is a proposal for a new interdisciplinary didactical experience. 1. For quite a long time, research has been involved in an …
Pandolfi M, Homeopathy: Ex nihilo fit nihil, Eur J Intern Med (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2010.03.003 Homeopathy is an eloquent …
Published on BMJ 2010; 340: C1578 Among the priorities for the European health directorate, DG Sanco, as it takes control of the …
Research is changing the world. The research world is changing. This is, in a nutshell, the framework outlined by experts of the …
We citizens of Milan, Italian citizens and citizens of the world turn to you, Mr. Mayor, in a renewed appeal to stop the eyesore …
Neither a silent revolution, nor a stormy one. What Africa needs is a scientific revolution that trains a new generation of …
This paper investigates the tensions within the Society of Jesus, especially at the Roman College, at the time of Galileo and how …
It is five years since the NASA rovers named "Spirit" and "Opportunity" have been exploring Mars, sending their close up pictures …
Eleven years ago a million Pakistanis danced in the streets after six nuclear weapons had been successfully tested. They had been …
The drug industry has an image problem, and big changes are needed to restore public confidence. The reasons why it has got itself …
Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), a centre at the cutting edge of pharmaceutical research in the field of oncology, is in danger of …
One of the most productive areas of research in modern cosmology is the application of quantum mechanics to an analysis of the …
Luca Carra interviews Lu Yongxiang, the current President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China is the first contributor to …
Already half a century ago, the American biologist Tracy Morton Sonneborn (1905 - 1981) observed that the single-cell animal …
Rice is the major diet for over 2 billion poor in developing countries. It is an excellent source of calories, but does not …
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