Why global warming? A Nobel prize achievement

Why global warming? A Nobel prize achievement

In the year of the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change of the United Nations (COP26), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences choses to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Giorgio Parisi (for his studies on complex systems), but also to Syukuro Manabe...
Free radicals – wild cards in search for stability

Free radicals – wild cards in search for stability

Every day, without realizing it, we are constantly flooded with advertisements for a multitude of products – creams, oils, supplements, food – to fight free radicals. What are these molecules? Why are they toxic for our body? And what countermoves are...
BioWatch – our light and hormones-driven clock

BioWatch – our light and hormones-driven clock

Our experience makes us think that the alarm clock of our smartphone is essential to start our day on time. However, who did never experience the condition of forgetting the alarm off and still waking up at the usual time, sometimes even no matter at what time we went...
How and why we get sun tanning

How and why we get sun tanning

 “Abbronzatissima / sotto i raggi del sole, / come è bello sognare, / abbracciato con te.” Once summer starts we can’t wait to get tan “under the sun rays”, like the verse of this famous song that people in Italy have all sung at least once in their...
David Attenborough – a century on planet Earth

David Attenborough – a century on planet Earth

David Attenborough. Credit: Netflix. How has the Earth changed in the last 100 years and what is the future in front us? In the documentary film A Life on Planet Earth distributed by Netflix, the British explorer David Attenborough traces the drastic environmental...
How some viruses can serve as vaccines against other viruses

How some viruses can serve as vaccines against other viruses

Everyone of us is unique, also because of his own DNA. It is indeed the DNA that defines our biological identity, storing all the information that our cells and body need to function.  Being the DNA the essential biological information medium, scientists have easily...
THE HUMAN MIND – HOW IT WORKS AND HOW TO TRAIN IT 

THE HUMAN MIND – HOW IT WORKS AND HOW TO TRAIN IT 

From March 8th out in the news stands the book “Mind and Memory” with Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport. Written by the psychiatrist and science communicator Danilo Di Diodoro with the help of illustrations from Nabu Creative Studio, the book guides us...