The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a Technology Industry Committee in the coming weeks. The first coordination meeting of the Committee will take place on Thursday, August 28 at 10:00 AM.  This initial session is open to all Chamber members operating in the technology, innovation, and profe...

A groundbreaking development in sensory materials has emerged from a collaboration between researchers in Italy and Brazil: a wide-area artificial skin capable of feeling touch much like human skin. This bio-inspired skin not only detects the location of contact with millimeter-level precision, but also measures the intensity of the touch, making i...

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The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is poised to become the most powerful optical telescope ever built. At the core of this groundbreaking scientific instrument is a major achievement of Italian engineering: the M4 adaptive mirror, designed and produced by Microgate, a high-tech company based...

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Two leading international science journals—Scientific Reports and Advanced Optical Materials—have recently spotlighted groundbreaking research from Italian teams demonstrating a novel communication system using visible light (VLC) and fluorescent optical antennas in real-world applications, revealing its strong potential. The system, developed and...

The global advanced materials market is poised for significant growth, with its value projected to rise from $70.4 billion in 2024 to approximately $133.4 billion by 2034, according to a March 2025 market report. This expansion reflects rising demand for lightweight, durable, and energy-efficient materials across industries, particularly as compani...

Google has taken a major step toward supporting the global transition to clean energy by partnering with Italian startup Energy Dome, a company known for its innovative long-duration energy storage technology that uses carbon dioxide. This collaboration aims to advance the deployment of sustainable energy systems and tackle one of the biggest chall...

A 38-year-old Italian man has become the first person in the world to benefit from an innovative dual-vector gene therapy for a rare inherited eye disease. Treated in July 2024 at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” in Naples, the patient was diagnosed with Usher syndrome type 1B, a genetic disorder that causes congenital deafness and pro...

It starts with a bite: a cherry still warm from the tree, a tomato sliced open on a cutting board, its scent filling the room. This is the Italian food the world falls in love with—not just for its flavor, but for its feeling. Because here, food isn’t engineered or anonymous. Each fruit or vegetable carries a story, a dialect, a region. This biodiv...