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Rebuilding the City of Science. Back where it was.

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 27/03/2013
Museums
Communication
Science sociology

It is so obvious, it appears trivial. The City of Science must be immediately rebuilt, back to there it was born. That same place where somebody was able to partially destroy the material structure – as explained by Vittorio Silvestrini – who was on the right track.
The reasons, which may seem trivial, prompting us – imposing on us – to rebuild the City of Science back where it was born, are two in number. They are both completely different.

Risks, probably...

di Alessandra de Savino
di Carlo Cacciamani
Pubblicato il 26/03/2013
Environment
Climatology

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 with damage to infrastructures amounting to hundreds of millions of euro. In the future, owing to the effects of climatic changes, we should expect an increase in their frequency and the intensity of these events which can no longer be referred to as "extreme" if the aforementioned is taken to signify "abnormal".

Planck's almost perfect Universe

Cosmology
Scheda
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Planck reveals an almost perfect Universe
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The Planck's most detailed map of the cosmic background radiation ever created.
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23 March, 2013

Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background -- the relic radiation from the Big Bang -- reveales the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe.

"This image is the closest reportage yet of the Big Bang. You are looking 13.8 billion years ago.This is a giant leap in the understanding of the origins of the universe," the ESA's director general Jean-Jacques Dordain told in the press conference in Paris.

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A meeting with Andrew Herbert Knoll

Evolutionism
Scheda
Titolo originale: 
An interview with Andrew H. Knoll
Soggetto: 
Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, guest at "Voglia di Scienza" in Milan.
Data: 
17 March, 2013
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An interview with Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History at the Harvard University, is the guest of "Voglia di Scienza", series of scientific lectures promoted by Università Statale of Milan.
We have interviewed Andrew H. Knoll after his two lectures "Systems paleobiology" and "The deep history of life".

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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Fabio Perelli on 17 March, 2013 - 10:41
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di Giuseppe Nucera
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Is it possible to distinguish ambient noise and earthquakes?

di Simone Lepore
Pubblicato il 16/03/2013
Geology

Damages caused by earthquakes may be considered as the result of the geological characteristics of the sites where they occur. These characteristics are better studied analyzing directly the ground motions due to the earthquakes. This type of studies, however, is limited to the areas that present a high level of seismicity [Nakamura, 1989].
To get out of this limitation, systematic analyses of ambient noise were made, which can be easily performed in areas where the seismicity is low or even absent [Dikmen & Mirzaoglu, 2005].

Play Nintendo® Wii™

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di Francesca Zammarchi
Submitted by Francesca Zammarchi on 15 March, 2013 - 10:46

In case you happen to find some surgeons playing video games during their working hours, perhaps they are not just having fun but they are training to improve their laparoscopic skills. A recent study from “La Sapienza” University in Rome analyzed the effect of four weeks structured Nintendo® Wii™ training on laparoscopic performance and found out a significant improvement on a laparoscopy simulator.

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Betting on research: here is Obama's Brain Activity Map

di Gaetano Di Chiara
Pubblicato il 05/03/2013
Research and development
Neuroscience
Scientific research policy

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. in 1999 at a cost of slightly less than $ 4 billion in 10 years but that, to date, has yielded $ 796 billions in business activities and has created 310,000 new jobs.
Now it is the turn of the