The NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission leaved the Earth in 2017 and the last September 2023 it returned with a surprising loot from the famous asteroid Bennu. About Bennu Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that passes …
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Soil consumption: the alarming Italian case
In 2023, in Italy every second 2,4 m2 of soil are lost. This means that in only one year 77 km2, approximately little less than the half the surface of the city of Milan, were …
Artificial intelligence and music generation: let’s free creativity
But…wait a minute…Are all The Beatles still alive? I know that everyone asked himself this question the last November 2023, when the song “Now and then” with the sign of The Beatles overwhelmed many radio …
A family album: the spiral galaxies sitting for Webb
In the cover photo the spiral galaxy NGC 1300, a 69 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus (Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team) shows its …
CRISPR for wild crops: when a cut can tame
We are used to think at CRISPR as a hope for the future of medical sciences, but now scientists are moving their attention to the world of crops and food. Could many wild crop species …
Five reasons to handwriting
In world more and more digitalized, where AI is everywhere, we’re still celebrating the handwriting day, on the 23th of January. But why do we have to still use a pen, or a pencil to …