One year of Webb

Josh Milliner will always remember the gloomy days of August 2017 when hurricane “Harvey” shattered Texas. As a project scientist for integration, testing and commissioning of the James Webb Telescope (JWST), he could not just hide at home. The giant

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Last boy standing

Our work as scientists, as any other human activity, is often influenced and even shaped by personal taste, character attitudes, cultural background and inclinations, and in some case (unfortunately) by preconstructed ideas. The network of teachers, students, friends, collaborators, that

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A cold case

One morning, end of March, 1989, the World was shocked by the announcement of an experiment carried out by two unknown chemists in the University of Utah, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, in which they claimed having observed the nuclear

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