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Stop if you’ve heard this before, but a tourist has been caught red-handed carving letters into an historic Italian landmark. After a scourge of scrawlers at Rome’s Colosseum, this week’s misbehaviour moves north to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A French 19-year-old has been detained by police after she was caught by an employee carving a love heart w...

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Planckian, the world's first company engaged in the development of the quantum battery technology concept, today announced the closing of a pre-seed investment round of more than 2.7 million euros. Planckian is the first joint spin-off of the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore. Development activities are led by Marco Polini and Vittori...

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The great Renaissance masters added egg yolk to their oil paints in order to protect their masterpieces against yellowing and humidity and to prevent the formation of cracks during drying, according to research published in Nature Communications and led by Italian scientists. "So far, scientific investigations of paintings have mostly been aimed at...

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What about visiting Pisa like a local? Of course, after preventing the leaning tower from collapsing to the ground with the force of thought and the laying on of hands. We would never deprive you of the traditional posed photograph, but after that, find out the habits and sights of the city dear to the Pisans with simplicity and a spirit of discove...

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Wondering what are the things to do in Pisa? Did you know that Galileo Galilei was born and studied here? He studied in what is still the seat of one of the most prestigious universities in the world, the Scuola Normale Superiore, and home to the CNR, the National Research Council, where Italy's greatest scientists work. It is often overshadowed by...

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Situated in the province of Tuscany, Pisa, Italy has a long history of being a notable part of Italian culture and a major tourist attraction. From its Gothic bell tower, to its lush greenery, the city of Pisa has something unique to offer all who visit. From its early days as a major naval and mercantile power, to its more recent cultural status a...

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is in excellent health, the local heritage protection agency said Wednesday. "Considering it is an 850-year-old patient with a tilt of around five metres and a subsidence of over three metres, the state of health of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is excellent," said Opera Primaziale Pisana. It was issuing the results of the lat...

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The first person in the world to treat lung cancer with robotic thoracic surgery is Italian. She is Franca Melfi, who heads the Center for Robotic Surgery at Aoup in Pisa. Franca Melfi was born in 1959 in Cosenza, Calabria: from a young age she wanted to become a doctor, but her mother opposed it, convinced it was an unattainable dream. But the you...

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What’s there to do in Pisa? Well, you can run from the train station to the Piazza dei Miracoli, take a picture of your sweet honey holding up the tower (haha), then hoof it back to the train station. We’ve documented how to do it in a video. But some would argue, the author(s) included, that Pisa is worth a bit of time. But even if you only have a...

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If you find yourself wandering the forests outside of Pisa, Italy, and come across a vivid red, four-legged, headless creature scurrying through the undergrowth, rest assured there is no need to be alarmed. The creature is in fact a four-legged robot carrying out an important task - helping Pisa University researchers quantify and measure the conse...

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