Let’s start from the beginning: Gender stereotypes and their implications
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/lets-start-beginning-gender-stereotypes-and-their
Stereotypes arise from this process of simplification and generalization, often based on merely superficial characteristics (such as age, gender, or ethnicity) shared within a group. These stereotypes result from centuries of culture and are assimilated during the socialization process. Stereotypes …
What area of the brain do mathematicians and artists use? The answer lies in a map
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/what-area-brain-mathematicians-and-artists-use
What area of the brain do mathematical geniuses use? Do artists and creatives use the right or the left hemisphere? Do we really have some “lateralised” functions, namely those that reside primarily in one of the two hemispheres? A study about these themes conducted at the National Centre for Scient…
Diabetes and Covid-19: the correct information
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/diabetes-and-covid19-correct-information
ATP synthase, a discovery on the ‘battery charging’ of cells
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/atp-synthase-discovery-battery-charging-cells
The cells that make up living organisms, including humans, must be "recharged" continually with the chemical energy needed to live. Without a charger, even the most sophisticated mobile phones would have a short life; this is also true for human cells.
Clima e migrazioni, qualcosa accadrà
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/clima-migrazioni-cop21-onu
Nei prossimi 15 giorni i governi mondiali si troveranno a discutere su cruciali emergenze planetarie: il clima e le migrazioni. Due le conferenze, non prive di polemiche della vigilia, con un ruolo chiave: la Conferenza mondiale sul clima dell'Onu in Polonia e il global compact for migrations in pro…
Covid-19, the loss of smell or taste are among the first symptoms
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/covid19-loss-smell-or-taste-are-among-first
Gender violence and adherence to the traditional model of masculinity
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/gender-violence-and-adherence-traditional-model
Sequencing the genome of icefish, the vertebrate living without hemoglobin
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/sequencing-genome-icefish-vertebrate-living
Researchers from the University of Padua have succeeded in sequencing the genome of the icefish Chionodraco myersi. Antarctic fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, icefish are the only vertebrates that lack hemoglobin, the main oxygen transporter. This fish, like other areas of Antarctica, a…
The Factory of the Stars: Helix, fusilli and plasma
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/cultura/factory-stars-helix-fusilli-and-plasma
A sun in a box to use an unlimited, clean and safe source of energy. In the eighth episode of the Factory of the Stars Piero Martin shows us one of these very peculiar boxes: the Rfx experiment. Here a structure shaped like a dount should host a plasma over than 15 million degrees hot
The Factory of the Stars: under control
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/cultura/factory-stars-under-control
What do an airplane, the thermostat in our house and the human body have in common? In the ninth episode of "The Factory of the Stars" Piero Martin illustrates a crucial component of a fusion experiment directly from Padua airport: the feedback control systems of the physics properties of the plasma…
The silent apocalypse: the slow disappearance of insects
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/silent-apocalypse-slow-disappearance-insects
It is only now that we begin to understand the negative effects of the uncontrolled anthropic activities of the last two hundred years. Among these, is the incipient sixth mass extinction and for the first time of Earth’s history, one species has exterminated a large number of another species
About the Nature index and Padua’s ranking
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/about-nature-index-and-paduas-ranking
The Scientific research in Padua seen from the perspective of publications. The special Nature index ranking reveals an excellent ranking for the University of Padua, in Italy, in Europe and worldwide
From physics to art: X-ray nature by Arie Van't Riet
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/physics-art-xray-nature-arie-vant-riet
Special X-ray photographs of plants and animals: that's what we can see in Arie Van't Riet''s study. These artworks are the result of the application, by the Dutch physicist, of his scientific knowledge to artistic creations. Physics and art, a really interesting combination.
Stuart Milk, Lgbt rights activist
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/societa/stuart-milk-lgbt-rights-activist
His uncle, Harvey Milk, was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. He was assassinated in 1978 in San Francisco “because he asked people to take off their masks”. Stuart Milk directs the Harvey Milk Foundation and he fights for Lgbt and minorities rights across the world…
How gender violence emerges and develops in our society
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/how-gender-violence-emerges-and-develops-our
Nuclear fusion: agreement signed in Frascati for the Divertor Tokamak Test
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/nuclear-fusion-agreement-signed-frascati-divertor
Enea, Eni and Regione Lazio have signed an agreement for the implementation of the DTT Divertor Tokamak Test. The project will be hosted at the ENEA Research Centre in Frascati and investments of 500 million euro
The Factory of the Stars: very special bottles
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/cultura/factory-stars-very-special-bottles
Donuts, bottles and magnets to talk about how to get electric energy out of the process of nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the sun. In the fourth episode of The Factory of the Stars Piero Martin tells us about a very special container, made of stainless steel and magnetic fields, that w…
The Factory of the Stars: fusion, a safe choice
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/cultura/factory-stars-fusion-safe-choice
Very often the term “nuclear” is associated to accidents and radioactive waste. These, however, are linked to nuclear fission, which is the opposite of nuclear fusion. Fusion does not involve chain reactions, therfore it is a safe process