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History of a "mutant" neutrino
The international collaboration of OPERA experiment located at the Gran Sasso national laboratories -National Institute of Nuclear Physics-, in a seminar held yesterday at the laboratory, announced the detection of a first candidate event for the observation of neutrino oscillations in "appearance".
The cost of pollution
di Luca Carra
On March 2, in Paris, the European Aphekom project, coordinated by the French Institute for public health surveillance (InVS), presented the results of a three-year study on air pollution and its impact on health, conducted by 60 researchers in 25 cities across Europe. Sorry for the sceptics, but the data are once again worrying, with the important new information that health impact is now associated with a monetary impact.
Astronomical Ichnology
Ichnology is the branch of paleontology that deals with the study of footprints left by animal organisms. Ichnology thus studies the width, length and shapes of footprints, stride (the distance between each one), the depth, possible asymmetries and more, in order to establish the size of the the animals, their characteristic forms and habits. The positioning of the footprints as well contains important information regarding the movement and pace. Just think of a horse's footprints and the difference between a trot and a gallop.
What Darwin Got Wrong: summary of replies to our critics
On our book and its reception
The first edition of our book What Darwin got wrong was first published early in 2010. It was intended to raise two objections to the Theory of Natural Selection (TNS) and to explore their connections to familiar questions about evolution.
The linguistic genius of babies
Patricia Kuhl
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Read time: 0 minsSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 25 February, 2011 - 18:16
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South Korea is investing in research
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Read time: 3 minsSubmitted by redazione on 3 February, 2011 - 12:01 Research
The considerable investment in human and economic resources, in the area of higher education, is accompanied by high investments in scientific and technological resources. According to the latest data published by R&D Magazine , this year, Korea has invested in research and development (R & D) 42.9 billion dollars, which places it in fifth place overall in the world. Ahead of France and Great Britain.
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Korea in the knowledge economy
di Pietro Greco
According to current news Korea is a country involved in a military confrontation around the 48th parallel, which is just as dangerous as it is anachronistic, the last of the Cold War conflicts. For sixty years South Korea has formally been in a state of war with the other Korea, North Korea. However throughout all these years, Seoul has also accepted and won another challenge, that of entering the knowledge economy as an absolute leader.
Award merit with an h
With Gaetano Di Chiara's work, "Scienza in rete" relaunches the debate on the assessment criteria overseeing research, which is important for the future of universities and research in our country. We invite readers to participate in the discussion by leaving their comments.
Regnault, the patient physicist in pursuit of objectivity
di Marco Taddia
In these hurried times the adverb coming up in the writings of Henry-Victor Regnault, renowned chemist and physicist born in Aix-la Chapelle (France) now Aachen,(Germany) on 21 July 1810, may seem rather unusual.