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Imagine needing to visit someone you love, only to realize that renting a car is more trouble than it is worth — endless paperwork, steep fees, and rigid rules. For most, it is just an inconvenience. For Marco Filippi, Italy’s current YTILI representative, it sparked the idea for Volvero, a peer-to-peer vehicle-sharing app. The United States has lo...

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Etna's recent paroxysmal activities have shown that when a volcano erupts, tons of ash and lapilli materials are ejected into the atmosphere and deposited on the ground not only in the vicinity of the volcano, but also over a wide area. The volcanic ash that falls in Catania in suburban areas and roads can be collected and disposed of as inert mate...

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In the spring of 2023, as he drove to his SpaceX internship in Starbase, Texas, a college student named Luke Farritor found himself riveted by a podcast. The hosts were describing a competition with an audacious goal: to read a 2,000-year-old scroll without physically unrolling it. The manuscript was part of a cache of papyrus rolls buried and carb...

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U.S. startup Venus Aerospace has developed VDR2, a revolutionary rotary detonation engine that would be capable of touching Mach 6 and flying more than 30 kilometers high. It sounds like science fiction, but it is reality thanks to technological advances that led to the official presentation of this project at the Up Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas...

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Italy's Spacewear is discussing a deal with Virgin Galactic (SPCE.N), opens new tab to design and develop a clothing range for the training of its astronauts and space tourists, the founder of the startup said. "With Virgin Galactic we will make innovative, performing suits to be worn during training by those who will fly with Virgin Galactic," Spa...

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In 2000, when attorney Ken Kleinberg was diagnosed with a kidney condition, he turned to Dr. Vito Campese, who was then the Head of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC). Campese was unable to determine the cause of Kleinberg’s condition because research on kidney diseases was very...

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The challenge is twofold: on the Moon and around the Earth. This is the prospect of the space market, which by 2030 will be worth a trillion euros. In the coming years, we will see inhabited modules on the lunar soil, where astronauts and scientists will work to develop new technologies and search for resources, useful not only to continue Space ex...

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In celebration of its 800th anniversary, the University of Napoli Federico II is organizing a two-day event, on October 22-23, 2024, showcasing excellence in research and innovation both for the academic and business Italian American communities at the Data Center of the Cornell Tech Campus, on Roosevelt Island. “We want to introduce the University...

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Octopus has unveiled a new investment into Italy‘s rooftop solar sector, partnering with local solar developer Coralsun to build 150 MW of new solar projects. Octopus Energy plans to invest €1 billion (£830m) earmarked for renewable energy projects by 2030. The collaboration will focus on installing solar panels on the rooftops of hundreds of busin...

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ENEA, as part of the ReBUS project funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), which includes the Cnr, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Thales Alenia Space Italia, Kayser Italia, Telespazio and the Universities of Tor Vergata, Pavia and Federico II of Naples as coordinator, has developed an insect based system converting waste produced by astronau...

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