One of the diseases that afflicts communication is the desire to reduce every issue to its bare minimum, misinforming and creating two fronts of supporters. Just think of the NoVax versus SiVax issue, which also involved scientific luminaries, or the Ukraine issue. This way of dealing with
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Phosphorescent beaches that glow in the dark. The first open-air ski slope in the Arabian Gulf. Billions of trees planted in a country dominated by desert. Trains that levitate. The highest rate of starred restaurants per inhabitant. Flying taxis powered by drones. An artificial moon. A car-free,
Read more →End of August 2022: hundreds of thousands of fish corpses pile up on the banks of the River Oder – 840 km of fresh water linking the Czech Republic, Poland and Saxony with the Baltic Sea, one of the most important Central European ecosystems. Already by the
Read more →Since Jules Verne, imagination has reached new heights: science fiction has opened up new frontiers for mankind, one of which is that of robotics, especially since Isaac Asimov’s trilogy. For at least 80 years, the cinema has been at the forefront in depicting the relationship between man
Read more →Although more than half a century has passed since American astronaut Neil Armstrong placed the first human foot on the Moon, our satellite has gone out of fashion. Today, the dream of scientists and industrialists is to go much further afield – to the Red Planet, from
Read more →It seemed a closed topic, a heavy legacy from the past, to be closed one step at a time: After the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity seemed to have been banned forever in countries where for years
Read more →In life, once you have achieved wealth, you have several choices available to you, of which the generally preferred one is to enjoy the money while the money works for its master. Apparently, one of the Russian oligarchs, Ališer Usmanov, made the same choice. Until you start
Read more →These are images of the same area in southern Libya – as it was in the days when the Roman Empire fought the Carthaginians, and as it is today. Two different and apparently irreconcilable planets. But this is not the case: the Sahel became Sahara (a desert)
Read more →Welcome to Lake Uru Uru, Cordillera de los Andes, Bolivia – one of the largest and most beautiful lakes in South America, deep blue, full of fish and home to thousands of flamingos – until just five years ago. Now, as you can see, it is an
Read more →Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are diseases characterized by the slow and progressive loss of one or more functions of the system nervous. These are seriously debilitating diseases which have heretofore been treated with poor results
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