Research

They have called it the Mozart effect, because in tests it is this music by the Salzburg musician that is used most.

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.

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 [...]

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?

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?

The most recent robots have impressive capabilities, but their bodies do not look much different from those of several decades ago. They have complex mechanical structures made out of rigid [...]

The research conducted by the psychologist Lera Boroditsky is distinguished by its original and interdisciplinary approach, which integrates methods and knowledge drawn from linguistics, [...]

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 [...]

Why is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 illness, so efficient and, therefore, so infectious? Since the explosion of the pandemic, scientists all over the world have been [...]

A study conducted by Michigan University (USA) is shedding new light on giant viruses - enigmatic viruses that are huge compared to their well-known “relatives”