An old tuberculosis vaccine, developed in the 20s of the last century by the bacteriologist Albert Calmette and the vet Camille Guérin (both French researchers at the Pasteur Institute of Lille), [...]
To understand the human evolution on Earth should we study monkeys? No, fishes. The biologist Prosanta Chakrabarty explains it in this brilliant 5-minute lesson, which dispels some myths linked [...]
The solution to one of the big issues of world health, i.e. the growing resistance to antibiotics by many types of bacteria, may also come from the sea and, specifically, from sponges.
A new hope for recovery of hands functionality after a spinal cord injury comes from researchers at King's College London, who have described in the journal Brain the good results obtained in lab [...]
Why are we conscious? So far nobody knows the answer to this query. But as the philosopher David Chalmers explains, to find it out we will need radical ideas, which at first may seem foolish.
An international team of researchers has identified 27 types of viruses, hitherto unknown, that infect bees (the results of the study were published in the journal Scientific Reports, belonging [...]
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