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The Taranto disaster is confirmed

di Marco Milano
di Francesco Aiello
Pubblicato il 05/11/2012
Environment
Epidemiology

The death toll in Taranto shows a dramatic increase according to the updated data of the Sentieri Study- for the 2003-2009 period - on the "causes of death, the biomonitoring and health risk related to air quality." The study was presented this week by Minister Renato Balduzzi, with the participation of the authors and the attendance of environmental associations' representatives.The first Sentieri study contained data up to 2002 and now we know that, in the Puglia capital only, overall death cases due to pollution increased by 1% compared to previous statistics, against the wh

Convicted for poor science communication

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 05/11/2012
Science sociology

They were convicted with a harsh penalty: 6 years imprisonment. They were all convicted, the members of the Major Risks Commission which met in L'Aquila shortly before the earthquake of 6 April 2009. The Court convicted all of them, Civil Protection senior officials and distinguished geophysicists such as Franco Barberi and Enzo Boschi, not for "bad science" but for "poor science communication".

The many errors on the L'Aquila earthquake

di Nicola Nosengo
Pubblicato il 04/11/2012
Geology
Social sciences

One of the most overused phrases in this strange country is "you do not comment on judgments, you comply with them". Fabio Picuti, deputy prosecutor of L'Aquila, repeated it yesterday after the verdict was read which, well beyond his own request, sentenced the seven members of the Major Risks Commission (six plus one, to be honest) to six years imprisonment for manslaughter; they were on trial since a year ago for the facts related to the earthquake of 6 April 2009. A prosecutor must reply in this way, we do not.

Rules and technological innovation: the Fastskin Revolution

di Stefano Nespor
Pubblicato il 31/10/2012

Ever since the ancient Olympics athletes have tried in all ways and with all means to prevail over their competitors in sporting competitions. Some of the methods – for example psychophysical training and diets - have always been considered acceptable without any limits or checks and without establishing whether or not and to what extent they might affect the athlete’s physical or mental health. Other methods have been either tolerated or prohibited.

Gurdon and Yamanaka, the research victory

di Carlo Alberto Redi
Pubblicato il 19/10/2012
Prizes
Medicine

The announcement that the Nobel Prizes for Physiology and Medicine have been awarded to Sir John Gurdon (Cambridge) and Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto) comes as no surprise. For decades now, genetic reprogramming of terminally differentiated somatic cells ("adult" cells) has been a hot topic and one of the most significant life science research themes.

Felix Baumgartner jumps from space

Record
Scheda
Titolo originale: 
Felix Baumgartner Jump Live Sunday 14 October - Review Jump
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To 120.000 and back, Felix Baumgartner jumps from space landing safely
Data: 
14 October, 2012
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Felix Baumgartner Jump Live Sunday 14 October - Review Jump

Felix Baumgartner landed on Earth after a 24 mile jump from the stratosphere, record-breaking feat that may also have marked the world's first supersonic skydive.

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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 14 October, 2012 - 22:12
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di Emanuela Clavarino
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Space
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The fourth paradigm

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 13/10/2012

The EBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute, is a research center of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) based at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton near Cambridge, Great Britain. Its mission is to provide, in a strictly free manner, data and more generally IT services to the entire scientific community. EBI's activity, therefore, is to collect, preserve, and then distribute the data obtained by researchers working in different fields of life sciences; anywhere from basic biology to clinical medicine to ecology. Well, in three years between 2008

Moderate effectiveness

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di Michele Bellone
Submitted by Michele Bellone on 11 October, 2012 - 22:54

A group of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center found that the effectiveness of US influenza vaccines during the 2010-2011 season was moderate, even if all 3 vaccine strains were well matched to circulating strains.

The authors of the work, published on Clinical Infectious Diseases, performed a case-control study on around 5000 patients with flu-like illness during the 2010–2011 flu season. The estimated efficacy of either inactivated or live-attenuated vaccine ranged from 69% in children aged 6 months-8 years to 38% in adults older than 65 years.

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Epidemiology
Vaccine
Medicine
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