When piles of books and notes invade our desk, we need a push to cope with all the work to do and not to give up. No need to resort to strange magic rituals because nature provides excellent support for…
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US scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Boston University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg made a new discovery that was published in an article in the prestigious journal Science. Researchers were able…
In the late ‘70s, at the University of Worcester (Boston, Massachusetts), professor Jon Kabat-Zinn put down on paper the protocol Mindfulness based stress reduction (method of reducing stress on the knowledge-based), laying the foundations for a revolution that still continues…
In a study published in the journal Brain, a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA) argues that exposure to green light may relieve migraine symptoms. Researchers exposed patients suffering from headache to light beams of different…
We’ve already seen, in science fiction movies, spacecraft carrying robot surgeons able to carry out accurate diagnosis, but also to operate in total autonomy and solve problems perfectly. How far we are now from the future? Surgeons of the Sheikh…
The Italian-Spanish team of scientists led by professor Maurizio Botta from the Department of Biotechnology, chemistry and pharmacy of the University of Siena and by professor Giovanni Maga from the Institute of Molecular genetics of National Research Council (known in…
The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), one of the most important events for the exhibition of the latest inventions of robotics, started on 16th of May in Stockholm. This time, the latest incredible invention by scientists from the…
Man’s best friend, thanks to its incredible olfactory qualities, is an invaluable aid in the search for particular smells, such as truffles or drugs. What if dogs, thanks to their ability, could even smell a disease? As often happens, science…
The precious result of a research about the diagnosis of Parkinson’s and predictions of its progression comes from the university La Sapienza of Rome. Currently, the disease affects 250,000 people only in Italy, where there are 6,000 new cases every…
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, which means that it is caused by an alteration of the immune defenses that do not recognize some tissues as from their own body and attack them in order to eliminate them. The disease…
