NASA has announced that on April 29th an asteroid the size of Everest will pass about 6 million kilometers from Earth: it will be visible to the naked eye from the balcony of the house.
Giovanni Sapere
A 100-year-old vaccine used to prevent tuberculosis has been delivered to health workers in Melbourne for testing against the coronavirus. The Calmette-Guerin bacillus, or BCG, has been widely used for about 100 years and is a widespread immunotherapy used to treat early-stage bladder cancer. It…
The company Dimar di Medolla is one of the few companies in the world able to produce a special inflatable helmet able to protect healthcare personnel from the Coronavirus.
Giovanni Sapere
The video of the Italian Cristiano Aresu, from Japan, who claims that the antiviral Avigan is effective for the treatment of Coronavirus, is popular on Facebook.
Giovanni Sapere
Laboratories around the world are implementing different strategies to create an effective coronavirus vaccine.
Giovanni Sapere
In the Netherlands, a team of researchers at the University of Utrecht has identified an antibody that will allow the development of a cure for the Coronavirus in a short time.
Giovanni Sapere
The words of Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK government’s medical adviser, come as a shock: “60% of Britons will have to contract the Coronavirus to develop herd immunity”.
Giovanni Sapere
The biotech company Moderna has produced the first experimental vaccine against the Coronavirus: tests on 45 volunteers affected by Covid-19 are about to start in Seattle.
Giovanni Sapere
The multinational pharmaceutical company DiaSorin is ready to launch a new test that will prove positive for Coronavirus in just 60 minutes.
Giovanni Sapere
At Cotugno Hospital in Naples, a team of doctors administered a drug for rheumatoid arthritis to a group of patients suffering from Coronavirus: the treatment proved effective in two cases.
Giovanni Sapere
Researchers at the Galilee Research Institute announced that they are close to creating a vaccine for the Coronavirus: “Developed from poultry diseases.
Giovanni Sapere
Researchers in San Diego have developed an ultrasonic device that applied to lithium metal batteries increases their life, charge and capacity The development of batteries is a very lively field, whose importance was recognized by the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019. The most…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
The project, which involves 12 European partners, develops a new surgical navigator that uses an innovative visor as a medical surgeon’s aid The world’s first augmented reality surgery was a great success. To announce it, the Policlinico Sant’Orsola in Bologna where the surgeon saw virtual elements…
Ilaria Cuomo
A group of Australian researchers invented a new method to produce thin, transparent and foldable layers of conductive materials that can be used as newspaper sheets Take an old material and radically transform it to obtain completely new properties. The way of reinventing is another path to make…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Biochemist Stanley Cohen died in a nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee: in 1986 he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine together with Rita Levi Montalcini.
Giovanni Sapere
A research team created a metal-organic structure that is able to condense humidity in the air to produce drinking water in record quantities Water is a precious resource, especially in underdeveloped countries, where there is a high need for drinking water sources or methods to purify it. Water is…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
The new yarn product is made from two renewable marine resources and is a promising material for advanced applications in textiles and medicine The ecological impact on the way we work and do research is also entering the field of yarn and fashion. Researchers from the University of Aalto, the…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have combined the thermal insulating properties of materials such as polystyrene with the thermal conductive properties of metals Heat control is a very useful material property for various purposes. The…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
