“Blue Gold. Stories of water and climate change” by Edoardo Borgomeo, published by Editori Laterza, is the popular science book that won the ASIMOV Prize this year. With the announcement of the winning book, the eighth edition of the science dissemination and project prize for high schools, promoted by INFN, ended on 6 May. This year it saw more than 13,000 students from 320 schools participate in the role of judges, proving an increasingly solid collaboration between the worlds of education, research and culture. Edoardo Borgomeo was the winner among the other five finalists selected by the scientific commission: Marco Malvaldi with “The second principle”, Giorgio Parisi with “In a flight of starlings”, Telmo Pievani with “Serendipity. The unexpected of science”, Antonello Provenzale with “Crocodiles at the North Pole and ice on the Equator” and Guido Tonelli with “Time: the dream of killing Chronos”. But the real protagonists of the ASIMOV Prize are the students: by reading the books and writing their reviews, they form the jury and then, on the basis of their reviews, they are also evaluated and awarded. The eighth edition was attended by schools from 19 regions of Italy who joined the national ceremony online. The event was organized by the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories, the Municipality of Pescara and the Scientific Commission of the ASIMOV prize.
