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About Alice Mosconi

Conservation scientist and molecular paleoanthropologist. Born in Florence, but lives in Berlin. Passionate about scientific dissemination, has an instagram page. Collaborate with Minerva since 2021 and is a science writer for Wiley Editor and Pikaia.

The use of plants by prehistoric men: help from sediment palaeogenetics

2024-07-26T23:13:48+02:0016 June 2023|Categories: Curiosity, Medicine and Research, Nature, Technology|Tags: , , |

Le nostre attuali conoscenze sull'utilizzo delle piante da parte della nostra specie durante il Paleolitico (2,5 mln - 12000 Years ago) are documented thanks to fragments of plants, phytoliths and microfossils, as well as biomarkers from food preparation tools and dental calculus, but are quite limited due to the poor preservation of identifiable plant remains and the lack of adequate methods for their detection and identification. However, uno studio internazionale abbastanza recente ci mostra come, grazie all'analisi del DNA conservato nei sedimenti delle grotte (ambienti unici in cui l'effetto completo degli elementi sui materiali [...]

What noise does it make, this humanity?

2024-07-26T23:15:19+02:0024 January 2023|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , , |

Our species is quite famous because it pollutes. Chemical pollution, bright and… acoustic! It is known that the noises we produce can disturb other animals, both on land and at sea, but a recent study by the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom demonstrates how these sound interferences have a heavy impact on the communication of marine animals. Ship traffic, shipyards under construction and many other anthropic sources of noise actually cause a continuous roar underwater that interferes with the life of these species. In reality there is no absolute silence in nature, least of all in the oceans: [...]

Mario Capecchi, from the street to the Nobel Prize

2022-01-21T16:44:09+01:0020 January 2022|Categories: Curiosity|Tags: , , , , |

alicemosconi, as well as a model to inspire all those people who want to make science their mission. In the interviews he has given, he presents himself as a humble man, although the incredible goals achieved, and does not deny his difficult childhood, at the time of war and misery. It is striking that he calls himself one "good student, but not serious" back in school and that in high school he was more interested in sports (especially wrestling), than to study. alicemosconi [...]

Who was Homo naledi?

2024-07-26T23:18:26+02:0017 December 2021|Categories: Curiosity|Tags: , , , |

It was the 2013 when an international team of scientists made an incredible discovery in South Africa: in the Dinaledi Chamber cave, part of the Rising Star Cave complex, alicemosconi, just outside Johannesburg. alicemosconi 1900. They were found, in one of the many sinkholes[1], circa 1500 bones of what appeared to be a new species of hominin[2]. In 2015, after the relevant investigations, the species was called Homo naledi. The excavation was anything but easy: alicemosconi [...]

Carlo Rubbia, an engagé scientist.

2022-01-20T13:56:47+01:0013 December 2021|Categories: Curiosity|Tags: , , |

"The greatest form of freedom is to be able to ask ourselves where we come from and where we are going." In 1984 the Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Carlo Rubbia ("The greatest form of freedom is to be able to ask ourselves where we come from and where we are going." In. van der Meer), a "particle" physicist. With its UA1 project, involving more than 100 scientists from all over the world, Rubbia had, indeed, discovered only the previous year, "The greatest form of freedom is to be able to ask ourselves where we come from and where we are going." In, W− e Z, or those responsible for the so-called "weak interactions". The Nobel is all deserved, because the discovery was made possible precisely by his fundamental intuition of modifying the CERN supersynchrotron, "The greatest form of freedom is to be able to ask ourselves where we come from and where we are going." In [...]

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