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TECHNOLOGY/ Who Am I? The Building of Bionic Man

The invention of Rex, a bionic man with artificially created organs, helps us see why it is impossible even for the most sophisticated machine to be a human being. By WILLIAM CARROL
4/23/2013
William Carroll

EVOLUTION/ The cultural revolution which opened up to symbolic thought and abstraction

Euresis Journal presents the proceedings of the 2012 San Marino Symposium on the theme of "Biological Evolution and the Nature of Human Beings." Ulisses Barres de Almeida and Juan Rojo
3/20/2013
Ulisses Barres de Almeida
Juan Rojo

SCIENCE & RELIGION/ Higgs’ smile and Dawkins’ box

Peter Higgs, the “inventor” of the famous particle, explains why there is no incompatibility between science and religion. So, why is there such a big debate? By GIORGIO AMBROSIO
3/4/2013
Giorgio Ambrosio

ABORTION/ The Pro-Life Movement: Illuminated by Technology

LISA HENDEY, founder and webmaster of CatholicMom.com, talks about the significant impact that technology and social media have had on the abortion debate, since the Roe v. Wade decision
2/3/2013
Lisa Hendey

SCIENCE AND FAITH/ Mr. Higgs’ statement against anti-religious fundamentalism

MARIO GARGANTINI discusses an interview with physicist Peter Higgs, famous for having come up with the hypothesis of the Higgs Boson, and his views on religion and science
1/8/2013
Mario Gargantini

2013/ Year of Water: Controlling our water resources

VINCENZO FRANCANI comments on the new initiatives working towards the regulation and control of water resources that are being put in place for the International Year of Water Cooperation
1/7/2013
Vincenzo Francani

OPTICS/ Retinal waves: how our eyes practice for the experience of seeing

Our brains are the recipients of retinal waves depicting images even before we are born, showing that our eyes practice seeing even in the womb. ALESSANDRO FARINI comments.
12/14/2012
Alessandro Farini

EVOLUTION/ Scientific thoughts on Psalm 145

PIERLUIGI ASSOGNA comments on Psalm 145 from a scientists perspective, talking about why God decided not to satisfy our every need and why there are not enough resources to go around.
11/28/2012
Pierluigi Assogna

PLANCK/ The bridge where galaxies clash

MARIACHIARA ROSSETTI discusses one of the great open questions of modern cosmology, the case of the “missing baryons” and how the PLANCK  project can help solve the mystery.
11/26/2012
Mariachiara Rossetti

PHYSICS/ Amaldi (Catholic Culture Prize): Science and Faith are not incompatible

Physicist and winner of the Catholic Culture Prize UGO AMALDI comments on the separation between science and faith and why the two are not incompatible.
11/20/2012
Ugo Amaldi

NOBEL 2012/ Chemistry: The chemical makeup of adrenaline opens up a world of bio-signals

"An adrenaline rush". The work of  R. Lefkowitz and B. Kobilka, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, can be described in this way. Here the comments by Professor GIORGIO DIECI 
10/25/2012
Giorgio Dieci

NOBEL 2012: Physics: Dead cats, double marbles and other strange things

Physics Professor STEFANO FORTE discusses the 2012 awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum systems.
10/19/2012
Stefano Forte

NOBEL 2012/ Medicine: Yamanaka’s way, where cells become “babies” again

Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed to become another type of cell. ASSUNTINA MORRESI comments.
10/17/2012
Assuntina Morresi

NIELS BOHR/ His model of the atom, his fight with Einstein and his role in preventing the ...

Professor PASQUALE TUCCI retraces the life of Niels Bohr, the father of quantum physics who also developed the model of the atom, on the occasion of the 127th anniversary of his birth.
10/9/2012
Pasquale Tucci

ENERGY/ Why is there so much methane in the ocean?

Scientists have recently discovered both why there is so much methane in our oceans and that there may be methane buried under the ice, ready to be used as an energy source.
9/28/2012
Silvia Maiolo

EVOLUTION/ What the monkeys do not say

Paleoanthropologist IAN TATTERSALL discusses the origins of humanity, what happened in the evolutionary process to create us and how we are different from the other animals.
9/6/2012
Ian Tattersall

ARMSTRONG/ The trip to the Moon and the anxiety to discover

MARIO GARGANTINI discusses Neil Armstrong’s trip to the Moon, the worries and also the joy he felt to be there, the first man on the Moon, on the occasion of the great astronaut’s death.
8/28/2012
Mario Gargantini

RIMINI MEETING/ The Infinite seen from a spaceship

Astronaut PAOLO NESPOLI discusses the theme of the Meeting in Rimini using his experience in space, in orbit on the International Space Station, and the sight of the Earth from above.
8/24/2012
Paolo Nespoli

MARS/ Curiosity as strong as ever

LORENZO ALBACETE offers his thoughts on the landing of the space vehicle Curiosity on Mars eight months after leaving Earth, and what it says about our curiosity.
8/8/2012
Lorenzo Albacete

SPACE/ Curiosity lands on Mars. Obama: a point of national pride

Scientists and people all over watched with bated breath during the “seven minutes of terror” as the largest and most intelligent roving laboratory ever made its delicate landing on Mars.
8/6/2012
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