Topic: Naples (Italy)

The Secret of Turtle Island

" It's real enough, but you'd be foolish to try to sail there. The funny thing is, sea turtles, unlike the Mediterranean's human denizens, aren't supposed to like to float, says Sandra Hochscheid, a marine biologist at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in ...

Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report

Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday.The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has "fragile walls" that could collapse, Enzo Boschi ...

Fundamentals of conservation biology 3rd Edn

The article reviews the book " This edited collection is the proceed- ings of a two-day international work- shop held in Naples in June 2000. The workshop was organised by the European Countries Biologists As- sociation, the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi ...

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Jan. 28, 1608, Naples, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]-d. In 1667 he returned to Messina and in 1674 went to Rome, where he lived under the protection of Christina, former queen of Sweden. Borelli also wrote many astronomical works, including a treatise in ...

Campi Flegrei

Aspects of the topic Campi Flegrei are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Mount Vesuvius to the east and the Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) to the northwest.

Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli, Latin Puteoli, town and episcopal see, Campania regione, southern Italy. It occupies a promontory that projects into the Gulf of Pozzuoli (an inlet of the Bay of Naples), just west of Naples.. Its port made it a leading commercial centre and ...
Lysosomes are organelles central to degradation and recycling processes in animal cells. 1 Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy. 2 Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, University of Milan, Via Balzaretti ...
Modifications at the N-terminal tails of nucleosomal histones are required for efficient transcription in vivo. 1 Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (C.N.R.), 83100 Avellino, Italy. 2 Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare "L. Califano," Universita degli Studi ...
A galaxy in the process of being dismembered has been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. It was discovered in Hubble images of a galaxy cluster called Abell 2667 by a team of astronomers led by Luca Cortese of Cardiff University in ...