Noos - L'avventura della conoscenza (2023)

The program dedicated to dissemination returns and ideally continues the path of "Superquark", while presenting itself as a completely new story. Guest of the first episode is Russell Crowe, the unforgettable "Maximus" from "Gladiator" who, against the backdrop of the Colosseum, talks to Alberto Angela about his relationship with Rome, between archeology and cinema. A new authoritative guest also joins the "Noos" team: the director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel, to talk about the daily life of Pompeians before the eruption of Vesuvius. A character much loved by the public returns, the actress and director Paola Cortellesi who gives voice to the animated character that tells the story of the alphabet. In the immersive and technological study of "Noos", astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti talks about the preparations for man's return to the Moon. International scenarios expert Dario Fabbri helps understand the world through geopolitics.

In this new episode Alberto Angela guides us to discover the Egyptian Museum of Turin, which this year celebrates two hundred years since its foundation, to discover the secrets kept in the most important collection of treasures outside of Egypt. Director Christian Greco illustrates all the upcoming innovations that the museum is preparing to celebrate its important anniversary. Alberto Angela then talks about dinosaurs together with the young paleontologist Alessandro Chiarenza, to discuss not only the latest discoveries on their fossils but also some surprising details on the appearance of dinosaurs, very different from those seen in the films. Important news for those suffering from genetic diseases such as thalassemia and sickle cell anemia. In a report filmed at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, prof. Franco Locatelli illustrates a revolutionary and very promising experiment capable of correcting the genome of diseased cells.

Alberto Angela goes to Pompei to discover a construction site from two thousand years ago, which was buried under the ash of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. and recently brought to light by the excavations of the archaeological park in Regio IX. Also in the studio was an exceptional guest: the director of the Archaeological Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel. From the past to the future, a mirage that is now becoming a reality: the anti-cancer vaccine, based on the same technology as the "mRna" vaccines used against Covid, illustrating for which types of tumors it is being tested and what the hopes are for the future. We then move to where the most promising Olympic athletes train, discovering the technical innovations underlying the training of champions such as Marcell Jacobs, Gian Marco Tamberi, Simona Quadarella.

An important archaeological novelty and an important scientific novelty are the protagonists of the episode. With Alberto Angela we go to the territories of ancient Liternum, a city linked to one of the most famous characters in Roman history: Publius Cornelius Scipione, known as Scipione the Africanus, and which today is located in the municipality of Giugliano, in the province of Naples, for follow the opening of a sarcophagus found in the tomb of Cerberus, where a burial chamber dating back over two thousand years was found with all its treasures intact. We then talk about the promising experimentation on neurotrophins, the molecules discovered over seventy years ago by Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini. At the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Prof. Antonio Chiaretti has started research that uses neurotrophins to treat brain damage in children who have suffered serious trauma.

The journey through the various fields of knowledge begins again, with guests, experts and reports from Italy and the world. This episode also opens with spectacular images from the BBC from the African plains of the Serengeti with the most majestic and feared of animals: the lion. The Noos cameras then enter an Italian reproductive medicine center to understand how science can help couples become parents. And again: a new experiment involving Crisp-Cas9, the technology that allows the genome to be cut and corrected in a targeted manner, even in plants.

The new episode of "Noos - The adventure of knowledge" starts from the Basilica of San Clemente, one of the most evocative and historically rich places in Rome: Alberto Angela descends into the oldest layers of the building, where every historical era has left its mark, to discover the first basilica dating back to the fourth century, and even deeper where archaeologists have discovered a temple dedicated to the god Mithras. A report filmed at the Santa Lucia Irccs Foundation in Rome illustrates new scientific research on Alzheimer's. The cameras of "Noos" also went aboard an offshore patrol boat of the Navy, engaged in the defense of large underwater infrastructures, from internet cables to gas pipelines. And again, the focus is on the natural forest of Vallombrosa, in the Tuscan Apennines, to better understand the role of forests in the future of our planet.