Done right, a good science experiment is simple, clear and revealing. Done splendidly, it's a tale you don't forget. Let's do the sex one first. It took place in Italy, in the 1760s, when a Catholic ...

The second half of the eighteenth century was a time of spectacular advances in the life sciences. Fundamental problems such as the generation of life were addressed for the first time using modern ...

Spallanzani was in contact with a large number of European scholars, but he never succeeded in forming a group around him. We must consider a true exception his research on animal regeneration, ...

Imagine losing an eye, an arm or even your spinal cord. When we are wounded, our bodies, and those of other mammals, generally respond by sealing the wound with scar tissue. The newt, however, has ...

In 1794, Lazzaro Spallanzani reported experimental results supporting his earlier proposal that bats could ‘see’ with their ears. The famed Georges Cuvier found the suggestion preposterous 1, however, ...

LAZZARO SPALLANZANI watched by the flickering light of a single candle as a bat flew hither and yon around his simple room in Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy. Then he made a remarkable observation: when he ...

It was malaria that caused the death of the 55-year-old entrepreneur who died in Veneto after returning from Congo. The President of the Lazio Region Francesco Rocca anticipated it first, when asked ...

Founded in 1876, Il Foro Italiano is the most reputed journal of general jurisprudence in Italy. In its monthly issues, it offers an in-depth analysis of the production of the Corte costituzionale, of ...

ON April 11-15, the University of Pavia honoured the memory of one of its greatest sons, Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799). The celebrations took the form of a special meeting of the Italian Society of ...