Superquark
Season 25 Episode 7 - Alzheimer's, fighting fires, energy from organic waste
Alzheimer's can't be cured, but it can be prevented by training all the "muscles," so to speak, of our brain. With the Superquark reporters, we travel to the CNR Neuroscience Institute in Pisa, where the "train your brain" experiment was born, in collaboration with the Institute of Clinical Physiology, the University of Pisa, and the Stella Maris Foundation, with the support of the Pisa Foundation. Fighting fires by intervening well before the flames erupt: how? By using fire itself. The La Pineta di Tocchi Regional Center in the municipality of Monticiano, in the province of Siena, is a center of excellence for teaching fire prevention techniques, including prescribed burning. There's a lot of energy waiting to be recovered in the organic waste bag. We'll discover how to recover it without throwing anything away. We see not only with our eyes, but also with our brains.
Episodes in Season 25
Bilingualism, robots in the operating room, and nuclear fusion
125 min
Prosthetics, speed on skis, and Italian "top guns"
133 min
Xylella, the brain-gut link, and private astronauts
121 min
A world without vaccines, underwater volcanoes, and cryptocurrency on the internet
127 min
Osteoporosis, stress, CO2 pollution
124 min
Gene technology against tumors, artificial steak, valve transplantation
119 min
Alzheimer's, fighting fires, energy from organic waste
123 min
Piuro's little "Pompeii", the most spoken language in the world
122 min
Pompeii, bacteria in the human body and fake news
120 min
