Now there is proof: Mozart’s music can “heal”
They have called it the Mozart effect, because in tests it is this music by the Salzburg musician that is used most.
DNA tests: what do they really tell us about our ancestors?
DNA tests work really well to find out who a person’s parents are, but can give less reliable responses in other cases. To understand why, we have to know where our DNA comes from in the first place.
Why are sugary foods so hard to resist?
Sugar is a word that we all know, and that we usually associate with a sweetening ingredient. In fact, it is a general term, with a much broader meaning, and is used to describe a specific class [...]
Our neurons move like fish
What do a school of fish swimming in perfect harmony and our brain cells that give rise to an uninterrupted flow of thoughts, memories and complex knowledge have in common?
Preventing the next pandemic?
To successfully deal with the crisis caused by this pandemic, what lessons can we learn from the past? And what do we have to do to try and avoid a repetition of similar experiences in the future?
Reawakening of sea bacteria after 100 million years
They are a hundred thousand years old, although they don’t show it: for all these years they were “stuck” in the depths of the ocean. But then they demonstrated their readiness to restart their [...]
Does the language we speak influence our way of thinking?
The research conducted by the psychologist Lera Boroditsky is distinguished by its original and interdisciplinary approach, which integrates methods and knowledge drawn from linguistics, [...]
What makes our body age?
Elizabeth Blackburn, molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 2009, together with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, addresses these difficult questions in her research and puts [...]
Covid-19, a task force at Harvard to accelerate vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the efforts of the international scientific community to gain a much deeper understanding of how the immune system works (a system with a complexity [...]
Children also learn at home, but in a different way
The child psychiatrist Paul Ramchandani has been tasked with conducting research at the University of Cambridge into the role of play in child development. The study is still ongoing, but [...]
