Art and science

The CNR’s birthday

Pubblicato il 16/10/2013

The Italian CNR - the National Research Council - will be turning 90 next November. Its President, Luigi Nicolais (a chemical engineer, also member of Gruppo 2003), last September 30 celebrated the birthday of our most important public research body at its head office in Rome with an essential, but significant, ceremony.

The finest science essayist speaks about 'body art'

di Marco Milano

Pubblicato il 09/01/2012

Scientific edition

Art and science

DNA

Nature by numbers

di Manuel Cristobal Vila Laguarta

Pubblicato il 30/09/2011

Art and science

The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as Fibonacci Sequence, even although it had been described much earlier by Indian mathematicians.