Science

Through autophagy cells can clean and repair themselves: the discovery made by Yoshinori Otsumi was not only worth a Nobel Prize in Medicine, it is also an example of how the scientific research should work

By the discovery of gravitational waves, we open a second eye to the universe, the same one that Einstein looked at: what will it allow us to see?

The ghost of Zika flutters over Rio’s Olympics and Paralympics games. How does the virus works? How does it spreads? How real are the risks?

Artificial intelligences are already among us. With Deep Dream Google trained one of them to interpretate images: but can she understand comics?

Italy’s olive trees are threatened by a bacterium called Xylella Fastidiosa. Can we save them?

Proposals to make wolf hunting legal again are increasing in Italy, but the species is still at risk. Will wolves and humans find a way to live together?

The technology beneath bitcoin transactions could transform our habits as once did Internet. But there are some dark sides

Building a simulation of the human brain: this is the goal of an ambitious UE project that received a lot of criticism by several scientists