For the first time, a lab-created human prion
Do you remember the mad cow syndrome and especially its human version, Creutzfeldt Jakob's disease? After the emergencies of about twenty years ago, we do not ...
Sea waves? They "throw" viruses and bacteria
For several decades, between 1800 and 1900, one of the popular therapies more or less for any illness envisaged exposure to sea air, without any supporting ...
The first artificial intelligence that knows how to listen like a human being | IBSA Foundation
Researchers at MIT have created the first artificial neuronal network that can recognize sounds like a human ear.
How to extract water from desert air
Is it possible to collect water directly from air in the planet most arid places, to at least partially compensate for water scarcity
Establishment of EU ethical guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence | IBSA Foundation
Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming the focus of attention of political institutions. Its implications and how to drive innovation forward was ...
Out of Cambridge, the super-map of proteins in human blood
Thanks to innovative technology, researchers from the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), together with colleagues from other international institutions, ...
A semi-transparent film transforms solar energy into electricity
It is customary to see classic silicone solar panels on roofs and the sides of buildings. However, in order to exploit the potential of...
Even the “devices” implanted in our bodies are wireless
The number of medical devices that can be implanted into the human body is constantly increasing
The healing power of mathematics
Her name is Irina Kareva and she is a young scientist that uses mathematical models applied to biology and, in particular, to the development of anti-cancer ...
Hospital infections, the "tricks" of the superbugs
Hospital infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics are a reason for great worry for international health authorities, and cause several thousand ...
Diamonds can be bent too
Very small synthetic diamonds are also bendable and this flexibility opens the doors to countless new applications in the field of optics, physics and ...
How do we listen to music? Does it depends on our biases? | IBSA Foundation
It is 2007 Joshua Bell, an internationally-renowned violinist, started to play with a Stradivarius in the Washington underground. And no one stopped to listen ...
Origami-style models for the cultivation of bone cells | IBSA Foundation
Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami of folding paper into miniature shapes and figures, bioengineers in Lowell, University del Massachusetts (USA), ...
The school of the future? Without subjects
According to the OECD, for several years the Finnish have held the title of the best education system in the world.
Does dopamine (produced by the brain) cure diabetes?
The patient zero was a 53-year old Dutch man, victim of a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, who had accepted to be treated with an extreme, invasive ...
A new gel repairs stroke damage (in animals)
For the first time a gel, injected directly into the brain, has shown that it is capable of regenerating cells in the nervous system damaged as the result of a ...
"Left" and "right" molecules: this is how they can be divided
Chemical molecules have an orientation in space: they can be directed to the left or the right, taking on two opposite forms from one another.
Sound waves to measure toxic substances in water
Researchers from the Ciencias Fisicas Institute of the Universidad Autonoma de Maexico (UNAM), in Cuernavaca, have discovered that the use of sound waves to ...