The discovery of microRNA wins the 2024 physiology Nobel Prize. Victor Ambros, of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, and Gary Ruvkun, of Harvard Medical School, found that small snippets of RNA …
Nobel Prizes 2024
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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 …
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 …