Category Archives: Scienza

If you (as I did) thought that only Fox news reached the lowest level of journalism in claiming that a car can use “just” water as a fuel…. well, you (we) were wrong. Even REUTERS has decided to spread the … Continue reading →

And someone says Physics is not important. And someone thinks journalists should be competent. Please note, the video below is something like a scam. [kml_flashembed movie="www.youtube.com/v/6Rb_rDkwGnU" /] Nowadays, there is a silly competition in offering green solutions. General Motors, … Continue reading →

In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains – a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing … Continue reading →

[Pubblicato su Monthly/Finanza e Mercati di settembre]   Q. LHC, il nuovo acceleratore di particelle del CERN, il laboratorio europeo per la fisica nucleare, produrrà quasi 500 miliardi di minuscole esplosioni nucleari al secondo. I protoni (i costituenti del nucleo … Continue reading →

Questa introduzione alla matematica e` stata scritta per le prime lezioni del corso di matematica tenuto alla scuola Florestan Fernandes (vicino San Paolo, Brasile) del Movimento dei Lavoratori Senza Terra. Era indubbiamente troppo avanzata: dei 65 studenti che avevo solo … Continue reading →