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Ewine van Dishoeck, astronomer: ‘We are the first generation who can bring the question of life on other planets from the realm of philosophy into real science’

Luca Tancredi Barone — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck’s laboratory is the universe, where chemical reactions take place that would be impossible on Earth. She calls herself a fan of interstellar dust and believes that as a woman, college was easier for her because “the professors noticed you.” Among her other honors, Van Dishoek won the Kavli Prize in astrophysics in 2018 “for her combined contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry, elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets.”

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Italy’s health minister under scrutiny over his scientific studies on cancer

Luca Tancredi Barone — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:55:47 +0000

Orazio Schillaci, the health minister in the cabinet of the far-right Giorgia Meloni since October, finds himself at the center of a scientific scandal. The Italian left-wing newspaper Il manifesto conducted an investigation that yielded indications of possible fraud in some of his published work, and the prestigious scientific journal Science picked up on the investigation, publishing an article of its own about “possible misconduct” by the minister. The opposition is already calling on Meloni to take action.

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Jocelyn Bell, astrophysicist, recalls the Nobel Prize that was denied to her: ‘I couldn’t afford to rock the boat’

Luca Tancredi Barone — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:12:11 +0000

In 1967, when she was a postgraduate student, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars – rotating neutron stars that give off pulses of radiation.

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