Press Articles
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are mis-informed”.
(Mark Twain)
- Dal Mar dei Sargassi la vita sintetica (Synthetic life from the Sargasso Sea), La Stampa (7 June 2003)
- E’ l’Etiopia la nostra patria comune (Ethiopia is our native country) La Stampa (23 June 2003)
- Nessun legame con i Neanderthal (No ties to Neanderthals), Sapere (October 2003)
- Le cellule della meraviglia (The cells of wonder), Contro Cancro (October 2003)
- Il primo animale transgenico da compagnia (The first transgenic pet animal) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (January 2004)
- Dove la vita è possibile (Where life is possible)Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (February 2004)
- Il declino dell’olfatto dei primati (The decline of the sense of smell of primates) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (March 2004)
- La galassia più lontana Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American (April 2004)
- Sars, le promesse dell’interferone (The promises of interferon) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (May 2004)
- Adulti a 15 anni (Adults aged 15 years old) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (June 2004)
- Questione di chimica (Just about chemistry) Panorama (24 June 2004)
- Uomo e scimpanzé: cugini ma non troppo (Man and chimpanzee: cousins but not too much) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (July 2004)
- Oggi mi vesto invisibile (Today I dress invisible) Panorama (1 July 2004)
- Galassie senior (Senior galaxies) Panorama (22 July 2004)
- Fedeli, inizia la cybermessa (Faithful,. cyber-mass begins) Panorama (15 July 2004)
- La mummia che visse due volte (The mummy who lived twice) Panorama (15 July 2004)
- Si può imparare anche divertendosi (You can learn while having fun) Panorama (5 August 2004)
- Un interruttore per i geni (A switch for the genes) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (September 2004)
- SOS dall’isola degli tsunami (SOS from tsunami island) Panorama (16 September 2004)
- Buchi neri, gli strappi dell’universo (Black holes, the tears of the universe) Panorama (23 September 2004)
- Le date dell’evoluzione (The dates of evolution) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American (October 2004)
- Clicca la medicina giusta (Click the right medicine) Panorama (7 October 2004)
- Uomini si diventa da bambini (It is as a child that one becomes man) Panorama (21 October 2004)
- Molti passi, pochi chili (Many steps, few kilos) Panorama (28 October 2004)
- Piccoli artisti crescono (Little artists grow up) Panorama (11 November 2004)
- Ritorno alla Luna (Back to the Moon) Panorama (18 November 2004)
- Diluvio Universale? Nel Mar Nero (The Great Flood? It happened in the Black Sea) Panorama (25 November 2004)
- Non toccate quelle piante Panorama (25 Novembre 2004)
- Vite a sorpresa (Unexpected lives) Panorama (9 December 2004)
- Il pensionato e il dinosauro (The retiree and the dinosaur) Panorama (22 December 2004)
- Figli di un vulcano (Children of a vulcano) Panorama (16 December 2004)
- Un capostipite del Miocene (A progenitor of the Miocene) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (January 2005)
- Einstein aveva ragione (Einstein was right) Panorama (4 January 2005)
- Quel mammut ci somiglia (That mammoth looks like us) Panorama (20 Gennaio 2005)
- I segreti delle tempie grigie (The secrets of the graying temples) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (February 2005)
- Elegante come un Neanderthal (As elegant as a Neanderthal) Panorama (10 February 2005)
- Gelido crash (Icy crash) Panorama (10 February 2005)
- Divorzio africano (African divorce) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (March 2005)
- Review of ‘Speranza di domani’ by David Khayat Panorama (3 March 2005)
- Quell’insana attrazione per gli antibiotici (That insane attraction to antibiotics) Panorama (24 March 2005)
- Marte che bellezza (Mars, what a beauty) Panorama (31 March 2005)
- La scienza dei terremoti (The science of the earthquakes) Focus (March 2005)
- Ma come suona bene quella batteria (That battery works well) Panorama (31 March 2005)
- Guardando l’invisibile (Looking at the invisible) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (April 2005)
- Telenovelas che salvano la vita (Telenovelas which save your life) Panorama (7 April 2005)
- Terra inquieta (Restless land) Panorama (14 April 2005)
- Se l’onda anomala minaccia anche noi (If the tsunami threatens us too) Panorama (14 Aprile 2005)
- Energia oscura? No, grazie (Dark energy? No, thanks) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (May 2005)
- Ma che brutta aria si respira in casa (What a bad air you breathe in the apartment) Panorama (12 May 2005)
- Perché conviene a tutti salvare il pianeta (Why should we save the planet?) Panorama (19 May 2005)
- Cuore di cannabis (Cannabis heart) Panorama (26 May 2005)
- Il picchio resuscitato (The resurrected woodpecker) Panorama (26 May 2005)
- Svegli per mutazione (Awake by mutation) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (June 2005)
- I nostri primi passi (Our first steps) Panorama (1 June 2005)
- Non fatevi condizionare troppo (Don’t let yourself be conditioned too much) Panorama (9 June 2005)
- Tutta colpa del sushi (The fault lies with the sushi) Panorama (16 June 2005)
- Parlami, sono Cyc (Talk to me, I am Cyc) Panorama (30 June 2005)
- Quando il virus prende il jet (When the virus takes the plane) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (July 2005)
- Giorni roventi, anzi no (Hot days, indeed not) Panorama (7 July 2005)
- Cambiare sesso (Gender transitioning) Panorama (14 July 2005)
- Cacciatori di pipistrelli (Batbusters) Panorama (14 July 2005)
- Anatomia della gelosia (Anatomy of jealousy) Focus (August 2005)
- Anticorpi contro il diabete (Antibodies against diabetes) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (August 2005)
- Alexis de Tocqueville democratico e gentiluomo (Alexis de Tocqueville democratic and gentleman) Panorama (4 August 2005)
- L’auto verde verso il futuro (The green car towards the future) Panorama (11 August 2005)
- La telemedicina corre sul filo (Telemedicine runs on the wire) Panorama (18 August 2005)
- Lo strano fossile di Ediacara (The strange fossil of Ediacara) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (September 2005)
- Scherzi da batteri (Bacterial jokes) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (September 2005)
- Sulle rotte di Darwin (On Darwin’s routes) Panorama (1 September 2005)
- Interview with the cosmologist John Barrow, Panorama (29 September 2005)
- Che film la vita (Life: what a movie) Panorama (29 September 2005)
- Una teoria dell’evoluzione per l’umanità (A theory of evolution for the humanity) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (October 2005)
- Una grotta per due (A cave for two) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (October 2005)
- Una tazzina di salute (A little cup of health) Panorama (27 October 2005)
- Un bastone per Leah (A stick for Leah) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (November 2005)
- Travolti da un Suv (Run over by a Suv) Panorama (10 Novembre 2005)
- Uragani e riscaldamento globale (Hurricanes and global warming) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (November 2005)
- Per sapere che pesci prendere (To know what fish to take) Panorama (17 November 2005)
- Figlie di un buco nero (Daughters of a black hole) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (December 2005)
- La madre di tutte le patate (The mother of all the potatoes) Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American) (December 2005)
- Le vie dei ricordi (The pathways of memories) Panorama (1 December 2005)
- Ecco il vero Godzilla (Here is the real Godzilla) Panorama (8 December 2005)
- ‘Le Regard et la Bouche de la Joconde’ (The Gaze and the Smile of Mona Lisa) Cerveau & Psycho no.12 (in French also translated into German and Portoguese) (15 December 2005)
- Vaccino a tutta velocità (Full speed vaccine) Panorama (15 December 2005)
- Vascello spaziale per salvare la Terra(Speceship to save the Earth) Panorama (22 December 2005)
- Dottori con la coda (Doctors with a tail) Panorama (4 January 2006)
- Ma il teflon è cancerogeno? (Is teflon carcinogenic?) Panorama (16 February 2006)
- Aviaria, che cosa rischiamo in città (Avian influenza, what we risk in the city) Panorama (23 February 2006)
- Animal gay Panorama (9 March 2006)
- I rischi dell’alluminio (The dangers of the aluminium) Panorama (30 March 2006)
- A cosa serve l’orgasmo femminile? (What’s the female orgasm for?) Panorama (4 April 2006)
- Incontri cosmici del Dalai Lama (Cosmic encounters of the Dalai Lama) Panorama (13 April 2006)
- Review of ‘Il pianeta dove scomparivano’ le cose by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi Panorama (20 April 2006)
- Fastidi e rimedi per chi vola (Troubles and remedies for those who fly) Panorama (4 May 2006)
- Review of ‘Radiant cool’ by Dan Lloyd Panorama (11 May 2006)
- Che guaio la resistenza degli antibiotici (What a problem the antibiotic resistance) Panorama (23 June 2006)
- Necrologio per Harriet (Obituary of Harriet) Panorama (6 July 2006)
- Aiuto, la spiaggia scappa (Help, the beach is getting away) Panorama (13 Luglio 2006)
- Meraviglie abissali (Abyssal wonders) Panorama 31 August 2006
- Non è più tempo di luoghi comuni (It is no longer time for common places) Panorama (3 September 2006)
- Interview with the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner Panorama (21 September 2006)
- Appuntamento con l’antenato (Appointment with the ancestor) Panorama (19 October 2006)
- Se sogni non sei evoluto (If you dream, you are not evolved) Panorama (7 December 2006)
- Fiumi pieni di droghe (Rivers full of drugs) Panorama (14 December 2006)
- Quando l’universo aveva tre minuti (When the universe was three minutes old) Panorama (4 January 2007)
- Interview with the ethologist Franz De Waal Pikaia, (in Italian) (21 November 2006)
- Interview with the Nobel Prize Eric Kandel, Panorama (18 January 2007)
- 2100 addio al Belpaese (2100 farewell to Belpaese) Panorama (18 January 2007)
- Clima questa volta sarà peggio (Climate: this time it will be worse) Panorama (22 Marzo 2007)
- Inteview with the cosmologist Paul Davies, Panorama (16 October 2007)
- Review of “Il cervello infinito” di Norman Doidge, Panorama (in Italian) (8 November 2007)
- Interview with the palaeontologist Niles Eldredge Panorama (2 February 2008)
- Oltre l’inceneritore (Beyond the waste incinerator) Panorama (30 April 2008)
- La ricerca maltrattata (Mistreated research) Panorama (6 November 2008)
- ‘Cosmovisioni’ (‘Cosmovisions’) Panorama (5 March 2009)
- La mummia di Rosalia (Rosalia’s mummy) Panorama (12 August 2010)
- Il secondo che fa litigare il mondo (The second that makes the world quarrel) Panorama (10 November 2011)
- ‘Chi ha rubato il cervello di Einstein?’ (‘Who stole Einstein’s Brain?’)
Il Foglio (16 June 2012) - Review of ‘Cartographies of Time: A History of Timeline’ by Rosenberg D. and Grafton A. Panorama (in Italian) (25 September 2012)
- ‘Thomas Kuhn, 50 anni dopo: ecco come ha cambiato la visione della scienza’ (‘Thomas Kuhn 50 years later: how He Changed our View of Science’), Panorama (in Italian) (2 October 2012)
- ‘La salute è una formula matematica’ (‘Health is a Mathematical Formula’) Panorama (in Italian) (7 October 2012)
- ‘La medusa che non muore mai ‘ (‘The Jellyfish Which Never Dies’), Panorama (in Italian) (20 December 2012)
- La tempesta perfetta (The perfect storm) Panorama (22 May 2013)
- I cani che fiutano il cancro (Dogs smelling cancer) Panorama (3 December 2014)
- Il medico che curò se stesso (The doctor who healed himself), Panorama (6 March 2017)
- La rivincita dei Neandertal (The revenge of the Neandertal) Panorama (13 March 2017)
- Il destino crudele e ineludibile di Charlie (Charlie’s cruel and inescapable fate) Panorama (6 July 2017)
- Il supervaccino per sempre (The supervaccine for ever) Panorama (21 November 2018)
- Questo figlio è tutto mio (This baby is all mine) Panorama (5 December 2018)
- Questo scudo ci salverà (This shield will save us) Panorama (12 December 2018)
- Nella mente di un terrorista (Inside the mind of a terrorist) Panorama (2 January 2019)
- 2019: la riconquista della Luna (2019: Reconquest of the Moon) Panorama (9 January 2019)
- La carica dei nanorobot (The charge of the nanorobots) Panorama (16 January 2019)
- Vado in letargo e torno (I go into hibernation and come back) Panorama (23 January 2019)
- Il vostro cane addestratelo così (Train your dog like this) Panorama (30 January 2019)
- La semina la fa il robot (The sowing is done by the robot) Panorama (6 February 2019)
- Stanno arrivando i materiali più pazzi del mondo (The craziest materials of the world are coming) Panorama (27 February 2019)
- Le nostre prime impronte sulla Terra (Our First Footprints), Panorama (13 March 2019)
- Fakenews scientiche, genesi e sviluppo (Genesis and development of a scientific fake news), Panorama (in Italian) (12 March 2019)
- Vite quotidiane all’ombra delle piramidi (Daily lives in the shadow of the pyramids), Panorama (in Italian) (19 March 2019)
- Il dolore è femmina (Pain is female), Panorama (17 April 2019)
- Difesa del silenzio (Silence difended) Panorama (24 April 2019)
- La maledizione dell’Unesco (The curse of Unesco) Panorama (15 May 2019)
- Le altre terre (The other “Earths”) Panorama (29 May 2019)
- Un portale ci salverà la vita (A web portal will save our lives) Panorama (5 June 2019)
- Più che scienza scemenza (Stupidity rather than science) Panorama (19 June 2019)
- Apprendere in tutte le lingue del mondo (Learn in all languages of the world) Panorama (26 June 2019)
- La fabbrica delgi organi di scorta (The factory of the spare organs) Panorama (3 July 2019)
- Palermo, così rifiorisce una città (Palermo, here is how a city blooms again) Panorama (10 July 2019)
- La dieta negli ospedali (Diet in hospitals) Panorama (17 July 2019)
- Il lato oscuro del gabbiano Jonathan Livingstone (The dark side of the seagull Jonathan Livingstone Panorama (7 August 2019)
- La saggezza degli alberi (The wisdom of trees) Panorama (14 August 2019)
- Viaggio nella Via Lattea (Journey in the Milky Way) Panorama (21 August 2019)
- Benvenuti nell’era dei plantoidi (Welcome to the era of the plantoids) Panorama (28 August 2019)
- La foresta invade lo stadio (The forest invades the stadium) Panorama (18 September 2019)
- Viaggeremo a quattro ali (We will fly with four wings) Panorama (9 October 2019)
- Piantate tante balene (Plant many trees) Panorama (16 October 2019)
- Homo di Denisova, l’antenato che mancava (Denisovans, the missing ancestors) Panorama (30 October 2019)
- C’è un orto sotto il mare (There is a vegetable garden under the sea) Panorama (8 November 2019)
- Le voci ritrovate di Ercolano (The once lost voices of Ercolano) Panorama (20 November 2019)
- Mi si è ristretto l’universo (The universe has shrunk) Panorama (27 November 2019)
- Dal DNA il volto del colpevole (From the DNA the traits of the guilty) Panorama (4 December 2019)
- L’algoritmo del calcio Panorama (18 December 2019)
- Disinquinati dalla natura (De-pollution by nature) Panorama (27 December 2019)
- A misura di clima (On a climate scale) Panorama (21 January 2020)
- La biotecnologia del pane (The biotechnology of bread) Panorama ((29 January 2020)
- Fa male ma non inquina (Dangerous for your health but it does not pollute) Panorama (5 February 2020)
- Ascolta la tuta ti parla (Listen: the suit speaks to you) Panorama (12 February 2020)
- Polveri sottili: così il governo fa crescere il PM10 (Fine dust: here is how the government make the pollution grow), Panorama (4 March 2020)
- Le nuove rotte della frutta (The new fruit routes) Panorama (11 March 2020)
- Se il pappagallo ci pensa su (If the parrot thinks it over) Panorama (16 March 2020)
- Attenti al fattore S (Careful of the S factor) Panorama (1 April 2020)
- Salvati senza limite di età (Saved regardless of age) Panorama (8 Aprile 2020)
- Quei coralli sempre più pallidi (Those bleached corals) Panorama (29 April 2020)
- Vado alla deriva (e torno) (I am going adrift but I’ll come back) Panorama (6 May 2020)
- Ogni pianta è illuminata (Every plant is illuminated) Panorama (20 May 2020)
- Dopo il Covid saremo video-curati (After the epidemics we will be video-cured) (27 May 2020)
- Incentivi poco “puliti” (Incentives not very clean) Panorama (3 June 2020)
- Lo scarabeo Phloeodes diabolicus (The beetle Phloeodes diabolicus) Panorama (10 June 2020)
- La vespa killer (The killer wasp) Panorama (17 June 2020)
- Ritratto inedito del nostro DNA (Unreleased Portrait of our DNA) Panorama (1 July 2020)
- Fusione, energia senza fine (Nuclear fusion, endless energy) Panorama (22 July 2020)
- Più computer, meno bisturi (More computers, fewer scalpels) Panorama (29 July 2020)
- Farfalle, la piccola bellezza, Review of the book The language of butterflies by Wendy Williams (Butterflies, the Small Beauty) Panorama (28 October 2020)
- L’ingegnere che curò se stesso Panorama (18 November 2020)
- Senti chi parla (Look who’s talking) Panorama (25 November 2020)
- Una legge per difenderli (A law to protect them) Panorama (9 December 2020)
- Il lato magico di Newton (The Magic Side of Isaac Newton) Panorama (30 December 2020)
- Tornare in vista (Back in sight) Panorama (20 January 2021)
- Anglomania Panorama (27 January 2021)
- Così bello sopra così inquinato sotto (So beautiful above so polluted below) Panorama (3 February 2021)
- Le altre epidemie (The other epidemics) Panorama (10 February 2021)
- Il pesce nato in provetta (The fish born in the test tube) Panorama 17 February 2021)
- E il cane incontrò l’uomo (And dog met man) Panorama (3 March 2021)
- Bitcoin, la moneta è virtuale ma il suo inquinamento reale (Bitcoin, the currency is virtual but the pollution is real) Panorama (10 March 2021)
- Istruzioni per l’uso dell’aldilà (Instructions for using the afterlife) Panorama (17 March 2021)
- Se la Corrente del Golfo s’inceppa (If the Gulf Stream gets stuck) Panorama (14 April 2021)
- Nascere senza madre (To be born without a mother) Panorama (28 April 2021)
- Che cosa pensa un algoritmo (What an algorithm thinks) Panorama (26 May 2021)
- Il passato riemerso (The past resurfaced) Panorama (16 June 2021)
- Salto di specie: avanti il prossimo (Spillover: next up) Panorama (28 July 2021)
- L’arte firmata dai robots (The art of robots) Panorama (7 July 2021)
- Che aria che tira (There is a nice air) Panorama (21 Luglio 2021)
- Il caldo ci fa piccoli (Heat makes us smaller) Panorama (28 July 2021)
- In cerca del pianeta B (Hunting the planet B) Panorama (15 September 2021)
- Laurearsi a ottanta anni (Graduating at eighty) Panorama (27 October 2021)
- L’agricoltura punta in alto (Agricolture is aiming high) Panorama (24 November 2021)
- Venere chiama Terra (Venus calls Earth) Panorama (8 December 2021)
- L’ultimo orso polare (The last polar bear) Panorama (29 December 2021)
- Attrazione solare (Solar attraction) Panorama (12 January 2022)
- Viaggio all’inferno: obiettivo Marte (Journey to hell: target Mars) Panorama (26 January 2022)
- Un tesoro sprecato di cellule (A wasted treasure of cells) Panorama (9 February 2022)
- Review of “Water. A biography’ by Giulio Boccaletti Panorama (16 March 2022)
- Brutta aria a Milano (Bad air in Milan) Panorama (23 March 2022)
- La prima galassia dell’universo (The first galaxy of the universe) Panorama (22 April 2022)
- Il cervello oltre la soglia (The brain beyond the threshold) Panorama (5 May 2022)
- Review of ‘L’incredibile storia della neve’ by Alberto Grandi Panorama (18 May 2022
