Arriva l’estate: dieci regole per essere in forma
giugno 20, 2013 – 8:23 am | No Comment

Estate, tempo di vacanze, caldo e spiagge: un periodo in cui, più che in altre stagioni dell’anno, il nostro corpo e il nostro apparato digerente, a dispetto di quanto ci si può attendere, sono sottoposti a forte …

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Stanford’s touch-sensitive plastic skin heals itself
novembre 13, 2012 – 5:33 pm | One Comment
Stanford’s touch-sensitive plastic skin heals itself

A team of Stanford chemists and engineers has created the first synthetic material that is both sensitive to touch and capable of healing itself quickly and repeatedly at room temperature. The advance could lead to …

Meet ESA, the space agency for Europe
novembre 12, 2012 – 1:16 am | No Comment
Meet ESA, the space agency for Europe

You, together with your 500 million fellow citizens from ESA’s 20 European member nations, are the collective owners of one of the world’s leading space agencies. The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation, a …

Oh my God, I’m a Sex Maniac! Science supports sex addiction as a legitimate disorder…
novembre 11, 2012 – 8:58 pm | No Comment
Oh my God, I’m a Sex Maniac! Science supports sex addiction as a legitimate disorder…

UCLA researchers test proposed criteria for diagnosing ‘hypersexual disorder’. The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex …

Scientists discover new super-Earth. Conditions on planet may be just right to support life
novembre 10, 2012 – 8:40 pm | No Comment
Scientists discover new super-Earth. Conditions on planet may be just right to support life

New Super Earth in Six Planet System May Be Just Right to Support Life. A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around …

Happy Little Crater on Mercury & Camilla: The Cure for a Common Phobia (VIDEO)
novembre 9, 2012 – 10:17 pm | No Comment
Happy Little Crater on Mercury & Camilla: The Cure for a Common Phobia (VIDEO)

It looks like even the craters on Mercury have heard of Bob Ross! The central peaks of this complex crater have formed in such a way that it resembles a smiling face. This image taken …

The Bionic Man: Heartbeat Powered Pacemakers? A heart-powered pacemaker…
novembre 7, 2012 – 10:53 pm | No Comment
The Bionic Man: Heartbeat Powered Pacemakers? A heart-powered pacemaker…

A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves. Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan designed a device that harvests energy from the reverberation of heartbeats through …

Measured for the first time the ambiguous nature of the light
novembre 4, 2012 – 6:39 pm | No Comment
Measured for the first time the ambiguous nature of the light

Bristol scientists perform new experiment to solve the ‘one real mystery’ of quantum mechanics. What is light made of: waves or particles? This basic question has fascinated physicists since the early days of science. Quantum …

South Korea: an amazing elephant that speaks, say hello, sit and lie down
novembre 2, 2012 – 11:32 pm | One Comment
South Korea: an amazing elephant that speaks, say hello, sit and lie down

An Elephant that Speaks Korean. An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a …

Exercise more beneficial on an empty stomach, research shows
novembre 1, 2012 – 10:16 pm | No Comment
Exercise more beneficial on an empty stomach, research shows

Exercising before breakfast is better for you than exercising afterwards according to new research by scientists at the University of Glasgow. Dr Jason Gill and Nor Farah of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences …

Medical Tapes Painless! No More Tears from Tears…
ottobre 30, 2012 – 11:34 pm | One Comment
Medical Tapes Painless! No More Tears from Tears…

Commercial medical tapes on the market today are great at keeping medical devices attached to the skin, but often can do damage-such as skin tissue tearing-once it’s time to remove them. A research team from …

Genius and madness, myth or scientific fact? Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed!
ottobre 30, 2012 – 7:32 pm | One Comment
Genius and madness, myth or scientific fact? Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed!

People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish …

A camera aboard the International Space Station captured this view of Hurricane Sandy VIDEO
ottobre 28, 2012 – 8:18 pm | No Comment
A camera aboard the International Space Station captured this view of Hurricane Sandy VIDEO

A camera aboard the International Space Station captured this view of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 26, 2012. Hurricane Sandy From the International Space Station.The International Space Station flew high above Hurricane Sandy just before 12 …

New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet ‘Back from the Dead’
ottobre 26, 2012 – 11:58 pm | No Comment
New Study Brings a Doubted Exoplanet ‘Back from the Dead’

A second look at data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare …

Monster galaxy may have been stirred up by black-hole mischief
ottobre 26, 2012 – 10:24 pm | No Comment
Monster galaxy may have been stirred up by black-hole mischief

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy, with a core bigger than any seen before. There are two intriguing explanations for the …

Yale, NYU Study: Solar Power is Contagious. The neighbor’s roof is always solar!
ottobre 26, 2012 – 4:06 pm | One Comment
Yale, NYU Study: Solar Power is Contagious. The neighbor’s roof  is always solar!

People are more likely to install a solar panel on their home if their neighbors have one, according to a Yale and New York University study in the journal Marketing Science.The researchers studied clusters of solar …

New and Intense Solar Activity: Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare
ottobre 24, 2012 – 7:48 pm | No Comment
New and Intense Solar Activity: Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare

The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at 11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active region on the left side of the sun that has been numbered AR …

Baby tapir gets mouth-to-snout resuscitation. Denver Zoo staff’s quick action saves infant Tapir’s life Video
ottobre 22, 2012 – 3:43 pm | No Comment
Baby tapir gets mouth-to-snout resuscitation. Denver Zoo staff’s quick action saves infant Tapir’s life Video

Zoo Staff Provided Rescue Breaths to Calf to Assist Difficult Birth. A newborn Malayan tapir calf is alive and doing well thanks to the heroic efforts of two Denver Zoo staff members. On September 3, …

NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect the Imperceptible ~ Measuring Ripples in Space-Time
ottobre 19, 2012 – 6:36 pm | One Comment
NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect the Imperceptible  ~ Measuring Ripples in Space-Time

A pioneering technology capable of atomic-level precision is now being developed to detect what so far has remained imperceptible: gravitational waves or ripples in space-time caused by cataclysmic events including even the Big Bang itself. …