Tornano gli ISSNAF Awards for Young Investigators, i premi istituiti dalla Fondazione che riunisce gli scienziati italiani in Nord America per sostenere i talenti emergenti in cinque campi di ricerca. È stata pubblicata la Call for Applications 2017, a cui si può partecipare compilando, entro le 23:59 del 30 giugno 2017, il form che si trova a ques...
READ MOREWhen we think of where all roads lead, we might think of Rome. There are, of course, any number of other outstanding città in Italy and one of those is Bologna, a city whose origins began, in part, as an Etruscan city. This would be why, on May 25, the San Francisco Istituto Italiano di Cultura hosted, in conjunction with the Municipality of Bologn...
READ MOREOctopus Investments Ltd. started generating power from five subsidy-free solar plants in Italy in the latest sign that clean-energy can be profitable without government support. The plants have a two-year fixed power price agreement in place with Italian power trader Green Trade SA, said Matt Setchell, head of renewable energy investments at Octopu...
READ MOREWhen Gaetano Donizetti’s operatic tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor opens at the Santa Fe Opera in July, women touched by the tragic-romantic performance can bury their memories in a new, authentic Italian “Lucia Clutch” handbag. The handmade leather clutch comes from artisan workshops in Italy through a limited-edition offering by Santa Fe startup “ital...
READ MOREPisana, laureata all’Università di Bologna, PhD a Cambridge e oggi Associate Professor al Dipartimento Studi Classici della Stanford University, Giovanna Ceserani è tra gli artefici di un inedito progetto di Digital Humanities: tecnologia digitale al servizio degli studi umanistici. Mapping the Grand Tour è un’elaborazione visuale dell’enorme mole...
READ MOREIl neoArchimede Valerio Pagliarino, 17 anni, dell’ I.I.S. Nicola Pellati di Castelnuovo Calcea (Asti) - già vincitore dell’edizione 2016 del concorso europeo “I giovani e le scienze” – è tra i 3 migliori premiati a ISEF 2017 (International Science and Engineering Fair, svolto dal 13 al 19 maggio) di Los Angeles per il suo progetto di ricerca LaserW...
READ MOREEight Italian oncologists are among the 123 researchers set to be awarded by the American Society of Clinical Oncology in its annual conference opening in Chicago today. Only two of the eight Italians – six women and two men, all aged between 29 and 36 - who will receive the Conquer Cancer Foundation Merit Award live and work in Italy. One of the o...
READ MOREAn Italian company, Magaldi Group, has developed a new technology under the name of STEM (Solare Termodinamico Magaldi / Solar Thermo Electric Magaldi) to use sand as a storage system and concentrate solar energy. The firm’s installations capture sun rays and reflect them onto a huge mirror, which then redirects the sunlight into a cylindrical stee...
READ MOREAnnurca apples, Amalfi lemons, and Vesuvian apricots: these typical products from the Campania region and the coastline are being used as bases in luxury cosmetics. Through a deal between Trento-based Effegilab, a company that specializes in preparing natural cosmetics, and Palazzo Avino di Ravello, a five-star luxury organization, apples, lemons,...
READ MORESales of pasta in Italy have fallen by more than 10% in the last five years, with nearly a quarter of Italian consumers cutting back on the amount of pasta they eat. That’s according to new research from Mintel. Sales amounted to 908,000 tonnes in 2016 or 15.2kg per person – down from 17kg in 2011. Mintel suggested that Italy’s love of pasta had ‘g...
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