Let us return to one of the great mysteries of 20th-century science, namely the construction of the “most beautiful of theories,” one that is able to unify the major laws of physics by identifying a common matrix. Yes, because once the new road was identified, experimental confirmation arrived for the “old” one, which didn’t seem … Read more

The production of a protein isoform (ie, slightly different from the original, but sufficient to cause genetic modification, but not a true mutation) could be responsible for the loss of the tail in humans and apes. At least that’s according to a study described in the journal Nature, led by researchers from New York University … Read more

Exactly two centuries have passed since the birth of a cultural phenomenon that continues to fascinate adults and children: “dinomania”. that is, an interest, sometimes beyond all rules, in dinosaurs. It was February 1824 when the English theologian and naturalist William Buckland compiled the first scientific description of a dinosaur: a huge jaw and gigantic … Read more

For Aristotle, knowledge arises from wonder, without which there is no inquiry. This principle we learned in school seems more true today thanks to the amazing images of galaxies billions of light years away, sent by the James Webb Space Telescope, that amaze the common man and the scientist. But what amazes astrophysicists is above … Read more

Greenland ice is disappearing and being replaced by vegetation: in the last 30 years, 1.6% of the surface has become green, which has also caused profound changes in the landscape and ecosystems. This is revealed in an updated vegetation map led by Michael Grimes of the University of Leeds and published in the journal Scientific … Read more

New fossil discovered in ancient limestone deposits in southern China enabled us to make the extraordinary discovery that of some kind of dragon 240 million years ago. News, relaunched by user BBCmagazine published first Earth and Environmental Science: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with an extensive description of a number of new fossils … Read more

  A neutron star was indeed born from the remnants of supernova 1987A, the most studied in the history of astronomy and the only one visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years. This celestial body, defined as “degenerate” (composed mainly of neutrons held together by the force of gravity), is formed after … Read more

Surprise: the decimal point was invented about 150 years earlier than previously thought. This was revealed by an analysis of the astronomical tables he compiled Italian merchant and mathematician Giovanni Bianchini in the 1440spublished on Historia Mathematica. Historians say the discovery rewrites the origins of one of the most important mathematical conventions and suggests that … Read more