Production of nectar is not at all an easy work. It costs approximately 40% of the daily photosynthate allocation. Plants know that their energy is precious and for years scientists ask themselves if plants have …
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150 years of Guglielmo Marconi: the father of wireless communications
In 1895 a wireless signal surpassed an obstacle a mile far, the hill behind Griffone’s Villa, in Bologna. It was the house of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was only 21 years old, but he changed the …
Waiting for the total solar eclipse
While we are waiting for the total solar eclipse of the 8th of April 2024, we can have a look at some special images of the solar corona. The first pictured here, using multiple images …
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 …