The roots of plant intelligence
Biology
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Anyone Out There?
Look up at the stars and ask yourself: what scares me more ? To be alone in the Universe, or to know that there is someone else up there? An age-old question, as valid for you and me as it was for Giordano Bruno when he wrote about an “infinity of worlds” before being burnt at the stake in 1600. But fifty years ago to the day, a letter to Nature ended the passive, look-up-and-ponder attitude by proposing a scientific, experimental approach. We don’t have an answer yet (or you and I would know), but in the process we have come up with quite a tale to tell.
A fuzzy didactical experience
Here is a proposal for a new interdisciplinary didactical experience.
Homeopathy: Ex nihilo fit nihil
di redazione
Pandolfi M, Homeopathy: Ex nihilo fit nihil, Eur J Intern Med (2010), doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2010.03.003
Europe’s opportunity to open up drug regulation
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Published on BMJ 2010; 340: C1578
Among the priorities for the European health directorate, DG Sanco, as it takes control of the agency in charge of drug regulation should be to end the secrecy surrounding approval decisions, say Silvio Garattini and Vittorio Bertelé
Climate and irrigation
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The analysis of two climate scientists indicates that the intensive use of irrigation techniques can in some regions temporarily counteract the effects of global warming.
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The new world of research
di Pietro Greco
Research is changing the world. The research world is changing. This is, in a nutshell, the framework outlined by experts of the National Science Board in Science and Engineering Indicators which the U.S. National Science Foundation publishes, generally, every two years.
petition
We citizens of Milan, Italian citizens and citizens of the world turn to you, Mr. Mayor, in a renewed appeal to stop the eyesore of the car park in Piazza Sant'Ambrogio.
Africa: renaissance will stem from science
Neither a silent revolution, nor a stormy one. What Africa needs is a scientific revolution that trains a new generation of scientists towards the resolution of its most urgent problems. More than 40 % per cent of Africans (out of 922 million people) have no access to safe drinking water, let alone electricity; 70% of them live on less than US$2 a day and millions are plagued by Aids, malaria or other infectious diseases.
A decline and fall in the future of Italian Astronomy?
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