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Their structures are still standing more than 1,500 years after the last centurion snuffed it: now the Romans’ secret of durable marine concrete has finally been cracked. The Roman recipe – a mix of volcanic ash, lime (calcium oxide), seawater and lumps of volcanic rock – held together piers, breakwaters and harbours. Moreover, in contrast to moder...

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A team including Stanford researchers created a new digital archive to study Rome’s transformation over the centuries. The exhibit, which went online in the spring, consists of almost 4,000 digitized drawings, prints, photographs and sketches of historic Rome from the 16th to 20th centuries. The pieces were collected by renowned Roman archaeologist...

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The Italian Industry 4.0 market increased by 25% in the 2016, even though its real potential is still to be defined. This is the main finding of the research of the Industry 4.0 Observatory of Polytechnical School of Milan presented yesterday in Milan. 1,7 billion euro – this is the value of the Italian market of IT solutions, technological compone...

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Businessman Fabio De Furia is the new president of the Miami Scientific Italian Community (MSIC), unanimously elected today by the Shareholders’ Assembly. The Board of Directors will be composed of Dr. Alessia Fornoni, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Katz Family Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Director of the Peggy and Harold Katz...

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Si è conclusa la selezione dei progetti scientifici internazionali presentati alla sesta edizione del programma PIRE, Partnerships for International Research and Education, organizzato dalla National Science Foundation (NSF) degli Stati Uniti. Tre, dei tredici progetti vincitori, integrano team di ricerca italiani. Ad ogni progetto, arriveranno fin...

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We often hear about the constant efforts by Italy’s regulatory bodies to safeguard our authentic “Made in Italy” merchandise mark. A lot of times, however, the best solutions are the ones developed by young start-up companies, like the Sardinian Autentico, that employs “Near Field Communication” (NFC) technology to prevent Italian products’ counter...

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ISSNAF, the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation, and Intesa Sanpaolo, the leading banking group in Italy and one of the top banking groups in the Euro zone, strongly believe in the fundamental importance of re-thinking how our global economy works and of re-designing the way stuff is made. To do so, the two Institutions are...

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Più di un migliaio di finalisti accreditati con oltre 400 progetti; cinque le tematiche ammesse, compresa la robotica; rappresentati 51 paesi dei cinque continenti e 39 stati Usa; l’Italia partecipa con due lavori ed entrambi vengono premiati. Tutto questo alla 7a edizione di “Genius Olympiad” svolta dal 12 al 17 giugno a Oswego, stato di New York,...

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Italy is a world-leading creative manufacturing powerhouse, and we are strongly committed in gathering the best talents and resources in the world to foster its vision and leadership. After 4 four years of educational and corporate innovation programs, we have decided to map and open the Italian high-end manufacturing know-how to select, invest in...

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La malattia di Pompe che colpisce due figli, la battaglia per mettere in contatto i ricercatori americani ed europei, l’incontro con l’italiano Gianfranco Parenti, la ricerca sugli chaperones farmaceutici, il fallimento di tre trial clinici e la volontà di andare avanti comunque. Fino ad avere una terapia approvata, per la malattia di Fabry, e altr...

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