The fashion industry is increasing everyday with more and more people worldwide and the demand for new and ever more sophisticated clothes seems inexhaustible. It is necessary to increase the consumer awareness of the need …
Why do we need more prefixes?
Ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto….are the new prefixes as established the last november 2022 by the International System of Units, were approved by a unanimous vote at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM). …
Let the stars shine on us: save the night
The higher sky brightness, the darker our future. Since the invention of the artificial light in 1878 by Thomas Edison, artificial lights have played a significant role in human civilization. Artificial light, brightened and made …
Women in science
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” (Marie Curie) This summer I was very surprised when I found inside the Italian edition of the Scientific American an article titled …
Music Aptitude: markers in human genome and the plasticity of the brain determine our musical talent
I’ve been always fascinated by music and how many people are able to establish a sort of connection with instruments and with the frequencies they can produce. I started reading and playing music since I …
Advances in radiotherapy (RT): the importance of understanding RT biological effects on cancer cells
In spite of the important progresses on cacer research, malignant tumors are still one of the principal causes of death all over the world. For example, with an incidence between 33.9 and 60.0 cases per …