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Experts predict same-sex couples will be able to have children within a decade

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Science tells us that by the time you are about 60 years old, 75 percent of your health outcomes are determined by your choices. That’s genetic self-engineering: Each healthy act switches on youth-promoting genes and switches off genes that cause...

Uno studio pubblicato sull'autorevole rivista Science fa definitivamente luce sulla causa del virus. O quasi

Late astrophysicist Margherita Hack has become the first Italian woman scientist to have a statue erected in her honor. A general view of statue titled 'Sguardo Fisico' dedicated to Italian scientist Margherita Hack,inaugurated on the occasion of the centenary of...

According to new research, scientists are now answering that question with a big resounding “Yes!” Korena Mafune, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, explains that trees in a forest are not isolated individuals; they form  a multispecies...

If the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us anything it is that the value systems of our societies are totally distorted. Workers in the vital professions that provide care for others are precisely those with the lowest status, pay and conditions....

Even if science tells us that we are hard-wired to one extent or another to mark differences and to judge those we meet, don’t blame your DNA if you’re a racist. Human beings are not slaves to their biological impulses,...

It seems that in this year of celebrations for the 500th anniversary of his death, visiting Leonardo da Vinci exhibitions is like eating chocolate, popcorn, or peanuts: the more you see, the more you desire. At the end of my...

On Tuesday, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York hosted the event “Project: Planet Clean-Up” in order to showcase two Italian start-ups, D’Orbit and Sea Defense Solutions (SEADS), that are working on promising temporary fixes to the Earth’s worsening health.