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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?

What inspires a teenager to take on the great scientific and engineering challenge of inventing the first ‘intelligent’ dressing? Anushka Naiknaware, who at the age of thirteen has become the [...]

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 [...]

We know that the microbiome plays an important role in several metabolic diseases and that many bowel-related diseases are increasing dramatically in developed countries around the world.

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 [...]

“I believe that mathematics is so powerful that it has the potential to offer us a new way of looking at almost anything. Even something as mysterious as love”.

Recycling and reusing plastic has always been fundamental, but this only covers a tiny part of the plastic we produce.