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Ciao from Rome on lockdown to all the friends of We the Italians. Dear friends... how are you? At the beginning of the Italian lockdown, now four months ago, you were worried about Italy, in serious trouble while in America the problems had not yet begun, even though the virus was already circulating. Now that, for the moment, Italy is a little bet...

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If you practiced a contact sport before the coronavirus, competitive or just among friends, thanks to the Italian research you will soon be able to return to the field in total safety. At the Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with CONI and other sports federations, a prototype of a mask different from the surgical one, able to allow contact s...

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A hi-tech vegetable garden to grow micro-green on the Moon and in extreme environments such as the polar ones, set up inside a special ‘igloo greenhouse’ designed to withstand very low temperatures. But also space missions simulated thanks to advanced immersive virtual reality techniques. This is the challenge of V-GELM (Virtual Greenhouse Experime...

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Two female Siamese twins joined at the head were separated by surgeons at Rome's Bambino Gesù children's hospital last month, in the first such case in Italy and possibly the world, reports Italian news agency ANSA. The twins, from the Central African Republic, had been joined since birth from the back of the head, with their cranium and much of th...

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Since March 2020 when quarantine measures forced us to move our lessons online at the Università di Torino, lessons have been learnt in more ways than one. Firstly, the experience forced me as a teacher at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures & Modern Cultures to deeply reflect on the purpose of higher education including the reasons wh...

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L’Ambasciata d’Italia a Washington, la rete diplomatico-consolare e quella degli Istituti Italiani di Cultura e degli Uffici ICE negli Stati Uniti si sono adattate rapidamente al mutato scenario creato dalla pandemia Covid-19. Facendo leva su buone prassi già stabilite e su processi di innovazione opportunamente avviati negli anni recenti, si è imp...

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La prima retina artificiale liquida è italiana: è una protesi formata da una soluzione acquosa in cui sono sospese nanoparticelle fotoattive, in grado di adempiere alle funzioni dei fotorecettori naturali della retina, quando questi sono danneggiati da malattie neurodegenerative e dall’invecchiamento. La ricerca è il frutto di una collaborazione tr...

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Last month, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence — long a bastion of tradition — posted a video to its TikTok account featuring Botticelli’s “Spring.” The painting depicts Venus and other mythological figures, and has been gawked at by tourists and studied by academics for centuries. On TikTok, users were treated to a new perspective on this masterpiece...

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Dr. Cristiano Huscher has long used robotics and artificial intelligence for surgical procedures at the Policlinico Abano chain of hospitals in Italy. So when six doctors contracted Covid-19 at his hospital in Sardinia two months ago, he once again turned to technology — in this case, UVD Robots — to disinfect the rooms. The robot moves autonomousl...

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Una mappa multimediale che promuove l’innovazione del sistema locale pugliese e le eccellenze della regione. Un’iniziativa per favorire una migliore conoscenza a vantaggio di chi voglia viaggiare con destinazione Puglia. Pensato in modo particolare per i bambini e le famiglie di origini pugliesi, con l'intento di rinsaldare i legami e rafforzare il...

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