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The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has instituted the second annual Award for Italian researchers and startuppers operating abroad. The award includes two categories: The “Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award" to recognize an eminent Italian scientist who, in performing his/her research abroad, has made...

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Le storie belle e di successo a volte esistono. Anche in Italia e anche se difficilmente se ne sente parlare. E questa è sicuramente una storia importante da raccontare. Perché il nostro Paese è pieno di cervelli in fuga, ma per fortuna ogni tanto qualcuno di questi cervelli ha anche l’opportunità di ritornare in patria. È quanto è accaduto ad un g...

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Un esofago ‘bioartificiale’ è stato immesso per la prima volta al mondo su un malato di tumore negli Stati Uniti. L’intervento è avvenuto 3 mesi fa e il paziente, un cittadino statunitense di 75 anni, sta bene. Il merito dell’impresa è di due ricercatori italiani che da tempo lavorano negli Stati Uniti: Fabio Triolo, direttore del Nucleo terapie ce...

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Italy's 60-year-old astronaut Paolo Nespoli started a new mission to space on Friday, when the Russian Soyuz spacecraft lifted off to take him to the International Space Station (ISS). Lift-off from the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan took place on time at 17:41 central European time. "Beam me up S…oyuz! Hitching another ride soon to the @Space_Station...

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It was the third day of classes for a new, four-week Study Abroad course in Padua, Italy, and a group of BU students was on a scavenger hunt in the city’s outdoor market, the Piazza della Frutta. They were in search of examples of foods that could be included in the popular Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fresh produce, whole grains, nuts, leg...

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Congratulations to Simone Mori MD, working at Conti Lab at Scripps in San Diego and ISSNAF affiliate who won with his Immuno-Oncology team the Merck Biopharma Innovation Cup proposing a new molecule that direct the immune system against cancer! Bio: A native of Italy, Simone Mori graduated in medicine at the Polytechnic University of Marche, in Anc...

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Trieste will be European Science Capital in 2020, the head of the Trieste International Foundation, Stefano Fantoni, announced Tuesday at a press conference with Friuli Governor Debora Serracchiani and Trieste Mayor Roberto Dipiazza. Trieste beat Dutch university cities Leiden - which will now be science capital in 2022 - and The Hague in the final...

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Some describe Roma as a plate of archaeological lasagna (un piatto di lasagne archeologiche), made of layers upon layers of history (strati su strati di storia). Clementina Panella, a professor of archaeology at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” views it as a great book of human history (un grande libro di storia dell’umanità). After thirty yea...

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Marco Dolci did not set out to become a NASA engineer. Instead, like many of Dolci’s pursuits, the career path presented itself on his lifelong quest “to know” – that is, to answer any and every question that crosses his mind. As a boy, his never-ending stampede of questions became too much even for his ever-patient parents, so they presented him w...

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New discovery from the team of researchers of Archeometallurgy of the University of Padua. From the research published on "Plos One", it emerges that the origin of the Similaun Man, nicknamed Ötzi, originates from the area of southern Tuscany. Until today it was believed that the production and circulation of copper in the Alpine area in the 4th mi...

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