The progress achieved by agriculture, in the last century, is in large part due to the availability of more productive plants thanks to the activity of genetic improvement, a technology…

The expression regenerative agriculture, much used in the early 1980s of the last century and then abandoned, is back on the agenda today, as it has been revived by the…

The existence of fractures with velocities even higher than that of shear waves is demonstrated with numerical simulations. They can even reach that of longitudinal waves. The mechanism is that…

The identification and characterization of proteinaceous materials in art artifacts is of twofold interest: to retrace, in objective terms, the working techniques of a particular painting; and to define a…