It happened on MAY 29

1919

During a total solar eclipse, Arthur Eddington completed the measurements of the deflections displayed from the rays of stars near the solar disc. Eddington thus succeeded in confirming, just a few years before the publication of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, those aspects that presaged the curvature of the space-time continuum in the presence of intense gravitational fields, and therefore the curvature of the trajectories of the photons that passed near to them.

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Genes and culture in human evolution: What Pääbo's work adds to the question

I. Colagè, Introduction: human progressive uniqueness between genes and culture

The Nobel Assembly, The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to Svante Pääbo, for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

The video and the slides of professor Pääbo's Nobel Lecture, where he tells the origin of his research interests, the methods he developed, and the results he achieved with their theoretical and pratical implications

R. Dulbecco, "A Turning Point in Cancer Research: Sequencing the Human Genome", Science, 1986

Th. Dobzhansky and M.F. Ashley Montagu, "Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind", Science, 1947

C. Renfrew, The concept of evolution as applied to the development of human cultures, 2009

J. C. Polkinghorne, Mind and matter: A physicist's view, 2009

K. Rahner, The Problem of Evolution as Seen by Theology, 1981

    

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.

Suggested Readings

Intelligence? Understanding? Wisdom? Loyola Hank Center, Nexus Journal, April 26, 2023
Why Theology Should Take Science Seriously Commonweal Magazine, March 27, 2023
New asteroids named for Jesuits and a Pope The Tablet, February 25, 2023
Lost Video of Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang Theory, Recovered Vatican Observatory, February 6, 2023
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