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A series of underwater caves off the southern coast of Sicily holds clues about Ice Age-era human migration. A team of ‘citizen scientists’ — including a tugboat captain and both recreational and Italian navy divers — helped discover them. The findings, reported in PLOS ONE, describe 25 caves and rock shelters that show signs of human occupation fr...

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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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Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost slice of history submerged deep beneath the surface of the Adriatic Sea. The UNESCO World Heritage site of Aquileia is hailed as one of the best preserved Roman cities in Italy, having once been one of the biggest and most bustling towns in the ancient empire. But parts of the city have lain hidden beneath...

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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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Anewly discovered manuscript of Il Milione, Marco Polo’s famous account of his travels, has been found in the Biblioteca Diocesana Ludovico Jacobilli in Foligno, a historic town in the Umbria region of central Italy. The discovery is significant also due to its timing, as it coincides with the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death (1254–1324), an...

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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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Italian biotech Aptadir Therapeutics has launched with the promise that its pipeline of preclinical RNA inhibitors could crack intractable cancers. The Milan-based company was founded by RNA leaders Annalisa Di Ruscio, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Vittorio De Franciscis, Ph.D., of the Italian Res...

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A small town of not more than 1500 people deep in the inland of Veneto, plunged in the hills, equally distant from Verona, at the west, Vicenza, at the East, and the Alps, at the north. This is a town of humble people, where everybody knows each other, with that working-class awareness that you must make it on your own.  This is where Claudio Pacca...

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Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies) has focused on one of her current research projects this summer – Food, Hunger, Migration and the American Myth in Sicily at the Time of the WWII Allied Landing – taking advantage of new resources available in Sicily.  This project offers a variegated reading of the 19...

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