A journalist, editor-in-chief and special correspondent, he was for many years the voice of Rai Radio’s Science and Environment programme. He has worked for Corriere della Sera and Il Mattino, and has contributed to Panorama, Scienza Duemila and Epoca. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including: Un rito, un diavolo, due culture (History and Folk Medicine); Idea di Natura (Marsilio 2008), Quando i Romani andavano in America: Geographical Discoveries and Scientific Knowledge of the Ancient Navigators (Palombi 2009, 6th edition 2016). Perché gli Ogm (Palombi 2011); together with Luciano Pellicani, he published Contro la Modernità: Le radici della cultura antiscientifica in Italia (Rubettino 2013). Winner of the 1999 ENEA Prize for Science Communication, he was a member of the Working Group on Information and Communication in Biotechnology of the National Committee for Biosafety and Biotechnology under the Prime Minister’s Office. In 2013, he received the Prize for Publishing and Science Communication.
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