At a glance Like a whirlwind For centuries, physicists have tried to understand how turbulences arise, develop and finally disappear again. Researchers have now succeeded in creating a turbulent area in a water tank that is spatially limited and stable. This offers scientists completely new possibilities to investigate such phenomena in a controlled manner. It’s … Read more
New mysteries about the Sun and the stars have been revealed, especially those that have a mass greater than that of the Sun and which are the most numerous. This result was achieved thanks to neutrinos, the particles capable of passing through matter and which from the heart of the Sun reached the detector of … Read more
The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2020 was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton e Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. They were the first to identify a virus responsible for a disease that was incurable until recently, contributing so to save many lives. Their discovery, notes the Nobel Foundation, … Read more