Pumpkins, zombies, monsters, witches…trick-or-treat!!! What’s your costume tonight? If you are late, and you have no inspiration, take few minutes to read where Halloween comes from. The truth is that it’s all about astronomy! Probaly …
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Bring back the Tasmanian Tiger!
The tawny coat with dark stripes, the jaws with a 80 degrees opening, these were the principle traits of the Thylacinus cynocephalus, or the Tasmanian Tiger. The last Thylacinus, a wolflike marsupial, died in 1936 …
The tomorrow anular solar eclipse
America roll your eyes tomorrow, October the 14th, to see an annular solar eclipse. This happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at its farthest point from Earth. The …
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences tells the story of thousands women
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market …
The triumph of the quantum theory: quantum dots and attoseconds for electron dynamics
Almost a century ago began the history of quantum mechanics. Today we can say that quantum principle, effects and applications are everywhere in our world. The proof is that the last week two important Nobel …
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Yesterday, October the 2th, The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base …