Science

New York City finds itself, as is its nature, a patchwork of a thousand industries thriving together. In the City you’ll find as many fashion and design startups, as digital health and platform technologies. True to its nature, New York...

"Unfortunately, it is still common to believe that hypnosis is a form of manipulation ". "Indeed, the opposite happens: thanks to the hypnosis practiced by medical doctors and psychologists, people are often able to regain full control of themselves", Mozzoni...

Creativity, imagination, skill and mastery are associated with but not limited to painting and sculpture, music and dance, theatre and film. The ancient art of drawing an elegant and ornate writing meets with the automated machine. The arts of entrepreneurship...

"Don’t call us the brain drain". Marco Leona is the founder of the Science Department of The Metropolitan Museum, and together with his Italian colleagues, Federica Pozzi and Elena Basso, he is proud to provide a scientific understanding to the...

Human genome modification and artificial intelligence are about to revolutionise our lives, as well as the very nature of human beings. Can we accept that only a part of humanity will benefit from changes of this magnitude, while those who...

In the future, Big Data's role will be ever more important: "New technologies like Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) allow biomedical researchers to generate tremendous amounts of data at low cost and with great speed.  The cost for sequencing a human...

Senza dubbio, è necessario rivalutare i dati raccolti durante un secolo di ricerca sul cancro ma certamente non ricercando il valore aleatorio della sfortuna nell’avere o no un cancro, quanto piuttosto nel migliorare le teorie, i protocolli i processi e le...

Recentemente sui giornali sono usciti titoli che annunciavano una ricerca shock sul cancro che avrebbe "scoperto" che conta più la sfortuna che lo stile di vita... Ma l'articolo di Tomasetti e Vogelstein uscito su Science sostiene ben altro su quanta parte dei tumori sia guidata da fattori ambientali e quanta dalla genetica