Recent Stories
Death by a thousand cuts
The Federal Scholar is in Bolzano researching the management of landscape in the Alps, focusing on Alpine grazing and how it contributes to biodiversity as well as culture. As part of a book project examining the regulation of cumulative environmental effects Rebecca Nelson shares her work on cities and the environment, the subject of a recent book chapter and seminar.
Biolettronica e terapie dei tumori. Una piattaforma foto-sensibile per controllare il comportamento cellulare attraverso la luce
Manuela Ciocca, ricercatrice del Sensing Lab, ha partecipato alla ricerca internazionale di cui è capofila l’Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”. Realizzato un dispositivo, compatto e facile da utilizzare, che permette di controllare, attraverso l’impiego di stimoli luminosi, la proliferazione di cellule tumorali e di registrare l’attività bioelettrica del sistema.
Il canto del cigno della Terra
Cosa sono i laghi termocarsici e perché il riscaldamento del suolo dovrebbe preoccuparci anche più di quello dell’aria
Was uralte DNA-Schnipsel über moderne Krankheiten verraten
Im Interview erklärt Paläopathologe Albert Zink wie er das Chaos in uralten Erbgut-Spuren entwirrt, und wieso verkalkte Blutgefäße nicht allein an einem schlechten Lebensstil liegen.
Book of the week
Restoration of Multifunctional Cultural Landscapes
Merging Tradition and Innovation for a Sustainable Future
Springer's innovative Landscape Series is committed to publishing high quality manuscripts that approach the concept of landscape and land systems from a broad range of perspectives and disciplines. Author Stefan Zerbe points out that "Restoration of Multifunctional Cultural Landscapes" wants to support or pave the way for all initiatives which aim at the preservation and restoration of our natural and cultural heritage, based on the principles of strong sustainability. Restoration of ecosystems and landscapes is here perceived as a truly inter- to transdisciplinary challenge which takes both the natural sciences (e.g., ecology and landscape ecology) as well as the social sciences (e.g., economics, anthropology, sociology, and ethics) into account.
Academia Strips
