Articles in University News
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope – with a little help from an amateur astronomer – has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million …
Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time visualised the molecular changes in a critical cell death protein that force cells to die. The finding provides important insights into how …
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous thunder-and-lightning …
The risk of hospitalisation or death from heart disease is 32% lower in vegetarians than people who eat meat and fish, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. Heart disease is the …
…lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are in better mental and physical health than others. “Coming out is no longer a matter of popular debate but a matter of public health” – lead author Robert-Paul Juster. Lesbians, …
An important component of recovery and prevention for cardiac patients is stress management. One powerfully effective technique taught by Jessica Psujek Wakefield, a health counselor at Duke, is mindfulness meditation.“People can use the technique to …
Possono gli infrasuoni aiutarci a capire se un’eruzione vulcanica è prossima al suo accadimento e quali sono le strade che il magma in risalita sta percorrendo prima di sgorgare dai crateri? Gli infrasuoni, come è …
Ingerire cibo con betacarotene e luteina è un’ottima prevenzione. Ad affermarlo è una ricerca pubblicata su Annals of Neurology, lo studio sostiene che i cibi ricchi di carotenoidi, (carota in primis) eserciterebbero un effetto difensivo …
Nazionalizzato in Europa, Stati Uniti d’America, Cina, India, Giappone e Russia il brevetto per la realizzazione di elementi strutturali su Luna, Marte e Asteroidi. Dal Dicembre 2009 è operativo il progetto italiano COSMIC, finanziato dall’Agenzia …
Molecular vibrations, rather than molecular shape, give substances their distinct smell according to a new study by UCL scientists. In a study designed to find out how smell is written into a molecule’s structure, scientists …
Lanciato un progetto europeo di portata senza precedenti dedicato all’innovazione tecnologica basata sul grafene. Dieci anni e un finanziamento di un miliardo di euro, tra i capofila dell’ambizioso programma anche il Cnr. Il futuro tecnologico …
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A …
Identificato con sicurezza certa la presenza di un alieno all’interno di un meteorite precipitato sullo Ski Lanka. L’alieno è un alga extraterrestre e per l’esattezza una diatomea. A divulgare sullo Journal of Cosmology lo straordinario …
…or lubricant. American men and women rated sex as highly arousing and pleasurable regardless of whether condoms and/or lubricants were used, according to a study led by Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington researchers and …
Fulvio Boatta, Walter D’Alessandro, Lisa Gagliano, Sergio Calabrese, Marcello Liotta, Marco Milazzo e Francesco Parello, sono gli studiosi dell’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) e del dipartimento di Scienza della Terra e del Mare …
Era una decisione auspicata da tempo e in qualche modo attesa. La NASA entra ufficialmente come partner della missione per la ricerca dell’energia e della materia oscura, Euclid. Media missione dell’ESA ideata e approvata nell’ambito …
On Jan. 23, 2013, at 9:55 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA’s …
Researchers at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have created a way to store data in the form of DNA – a material that lasts for tens of thousands of years. The new method, published in …
