The true secret of homo sapiens | IBSA Foundation
What are we better at compared to other species on Earth? This is the question that Yuval Harari asks himself, and the answers that he offers us are really ...
Scientific views on migration: 11 considerations from the Forum | IBSA Foundation
On 13 October 2018 an original experiment was carried out in Lugano with the Forum “Scientific Views on Migration”: a current hot topic was taken and tackled ...
The job of a physicist? To explore unanswered questions | IBSA Foundation
James Beacham is a brilliant physicist who participated in the Large Hadron Collider experiment at CERN in Geneva, the most extensive scientific experiment ...
Do too many detergents contribute to childhood obesity?
Obsession with domestic hygiene could be detrimental to children’s health, because it alters intestinal bacteria and, hence, children’s metabolism.
Human bone stem cells (finally) found | IBSA Foundation
A team of researchers and surgeons have identified human bone stem cells, capable of generating other bone cells and cartilage.
Kuhn: paradigms and revolutions in scientific development
In “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, Kuhn analyzes the history of science and its various implications in all areas of research.
Are there signs of the risk of Alzheimer’s in the back of the eye?
An examination of the back of the eye and of the retina, could help to diagnose Alzheimer’s long before the appearance of clinical symptoms.
Even the intestine produces electrical energy
A group of researchers has discovered that the bacteria that populate our intestine are able to generate electricity
Life: a journey through time | IBSA Foundation
Frans Lanting, one of the greatest nature photographers of the last few decades. And in fact, his idea is as grandiose as it is fearless: to reconstruct the ...
8.000 new antibiotic combinations to fight bacteria
While waiting for new antibiotics, a study is coming from California for an effective solution to infections that are difficult to fight today.
New "strategy" for repairing spinal cord injuries | IBSA Foundation
A study set up from the collaboration between the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles campus, has led to a ...
Popper’s critical rationalism
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science begins with a critique of the idea that you can build a scientific theory by a process that goes from facts to ...
"Revolution" for the universal flu vaccine
We are getting closer to the possibility of creating a universal vaccine against all (or almost all) the possible forms of influenza, without the need to ...
Ultra-thin nervous “tissue” for treating eye problems
There is new hope in the treatment of serious eye diseases thanks to a new type of artificial retina developed by researchers in the Aerospace Engineering and ...
A look at how our brain works | IBSA Foundation
In this memorable TED Conference, the neuroscientist Beau Lotto tackles a very important subject. As science and philosophy has taught us for centuries, seeing ...
Does antitubercular vaccine work against diabetes?
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 ...
A new look on evolution | IBSA Foundation
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
Within marine sponges new antibacterial substances
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, ...