Superquark

Toirano caves, liquid biopsy, Nemo's garden

Through careful analysis of animal bones and human footprints found in the Toirano caves, a group of high-level specialists was able to reconstruct a day in the caves that took place 14,000 years ago. Gianpiero Orsingher interviewed them. Andrey Varlamov is a Russian physicist with a passion for Italian cuisine and who works for the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome. For years, he has been experimenting with the physics of cooking. This time, he has developed the formula for Neapolitan pizza. Paolo Magliocco and Federica Calvia interviewed him. The new frontiers of prevention. Will a drop of blood be enough to detect possible tumors? Marco Visalberghi and Barbara Brenardini visited the MIT laboratories in Boston to understand what liquid biopsy is. Barbara Gallavotti and Giulia De Francovich will talk about an Italian researcher in Oxford who is tracking down fifty thousand books published in the first decades after the invention of the printing press.