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La scrivania dell’ufficio? Presto potrebbe profumare di bosco. E rendere meno traumatico il ritorno al lavoro. Il gruppo italiano ICA ha realizzato una nuova linea di vernici prodotte con materiali rinnovabili derivanti da sostanze vegetali di scarto, non competitive con l’alimentazione umana. Le nuove vernici della linea Iridea Bio sono pulite fin...

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FAU has international students from all over the world who attend classes on its South Florida campuses. For many of these students, the new college atmosphere is not the only thing they have to adjust to — they have to fit their cultural backgrounds into their South Florida surroundings. Three FAU graduate students from Italy have decided to reser...

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100% plant-derived leather, obtained from grape scraps left over from vinification and processed without using chemicals, reducing waste to boot. The project is Italian, and won first prize – a grant of €300,000 – in the H&M Foundation's Global Change Award 2016. The name of this new material – entirely made in Italy – is Wineleather, and it's the...

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This time it's coffee, prepared the Italian way. The results were also confirmed by laboratory testing. It can also help lower your risk of prostate cancer by up to 53 percent, a new study has revealed. A protective effect of the popular drink has already been suggested by some recent studies. New European research, published this week in the Inter...

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After growing up in Rome, then living in Sydney, Australia, and New York City, moving to Kokomo was a bit of a culture shock for Flavio Zampilli. “I’m still looking for skyscrapers,” he said, laughing, but said that he found the right place to enhance his professional skills, earning a bachelor’s degree in Medical Imaging Technology from Indiana Un...

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Who invented the telephone? The first person that comes into mind, as taught by our science teachers when we studied inventors and scientists in grade school, is Alexander Graham Bell. But it appears that we were all wrong the entire time. Bell being the inventor of the telephone has been debunked in 2002 when the US Congress casted a vote and rule...

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In March 2014, US customs officials in Ohio seized nearly 200 ancient Roman coins. The bronze coins were on their way to Rhode Island from the United Arab Emirates. They were an example of illegally trafficked cultural items, a "lucrative" enterprise, acting US Attorney William Weinreb said Wednesday. Prosecutors and law enforcement officials plan...

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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, encourage all Italian researchers currently working in the United States or Canada to submit their application for the co-sponsored “Intesa Sanpaolo Award for Innovation...

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Materiali innovativi per l’edilizia e l’ingegneria, in grado di resistere ai terremoti e alla corrosione operata dal tempo. È fatto anche di questo il “ponte” di intelligenze e di ricerca fra le due sponde dell’Atlantico, che ISSNAF vuole promuovere e far crescere. «L’eccellenza italiana non è solo nella moda o nel food, ma anche in mondi meno “sex...

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Italia e USA consolidano la cooperazione scientifica bilaterale avviata nell’ambito della Join Declaration per la cooperazione scientifica e tecnologica sottoscritta a Roma il 14 gennaio 2016, estendendone la validità a tutto il 2018. A darne notizia è la Direzione generale per il Sistema Paese (Dgsp) della Farnesina. Le delegazioni dei due Paesi,...

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