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In the past twelve months, we’ve all become sadly acquainted with the idea of contact tracing: used very successfully in the management of the pandemic in countries like South Korea and Israel, it hasn’t been as efficient here in Italy, where a dedicated app, Immuni, has been largely considered a failure on all fronts. This is pretty strange to say...

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The Circo Maximo Experience, reopens from 29 April until 31 July, offering visitors the chance to "relive the ancient splendours of the Circus Maximus in the Imperial period of Rome through augmented and virtual reality." Modern-day visitors can experience the roars of the crowd at the chariot races that once packed the 600-m long venue, or mingle...

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Leonardo has announced a further major reinforcement of its presence and customer service and technologies in the U.S. with the official opening of their brand new, state-of-the-art Helicopter Training Academy, located on their existing campus in northeast Philadelphia that also includes production, support and administrative functions for the Unit...

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Follicular lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells, is usually incurable. Patients cycle through periods of therapy that partially shrink their cancers, before the disease progresses again. That’s what appeared to be happening with a 61-year-old man in Italy: Diagnosed with cancer in August of 2019, he promptly began a course of chemotherapy, c...

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By the end of 2021 the Italian mineral water brand, Sanpellegrino will eliminate all carbon dioxide emissions to produce S.Pellegrino water and Acqua Panna, as well as its entire range of soft drinks. This is all thanks to the use of energy only from renewable sources, which has already allowed the group to reduce greenhouse gases by 60% over the l...

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Italy has produced the first robot in the world that thinks out loud and so learns new things like children, arousing empathy in humans. The robot has been created by two Palermo University experts, Arianna Pipitone and Antonio Chella. Pipitone is an expert in computational models for language and Chella an expert in informatics and robotics. Their...

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An Italian-American manufacturer of 3D parts and printers with its U.S. headquarters in Houston is touting what's billed as a first-of-its-kind innovation — an innovation that's helping drive the need for more local workers. Roboze recently introduced Roboze Automate, and it's being promoted as the world's first industrial automation system to brin...

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Giorgio Metta is scientific director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Italian counterpart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The institute has a multidisciplinary approach and is particularly strong in technology transfer. Metta (51), an electrical engineer who graduated from the University of Genoa (from which he...

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Researchers at Rome's Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital and the Italian capital's Tor Vergata University, working with other European and US research centres, have discovered the missing piece of the jigsaw explaining how tumour cells proliferate, according to a study published in Nature and backed by Italian cancer research association AIRC. The st...

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As already reported, the Italian Navy has recently declared the successful completion of the “sea trials” for the operational use of the F-35B, the STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) variant of the Joint Strike Fighter that will replace the service’s AV-8B+ Harrier II jet. The “Ready for Operation” campaign included various compatibility tests...

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