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Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti got a taste of home Sunday when she tried out a new espresso maker that is part creature comfort and part science experiment. Cristoforetti made her first cup of espresso in space as teams of engineers looked on from Earth.   Video recorded aboard the space station showed Cristoforetti and NASA a...

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According to Bloomberg Ranking's analysis of global health, Italy is the second healthiest country on the planet. To identify the healthiest countries in the world, Bloomberg Rankings created health scores and health-risk scores for countries with populations of at least one million. They then subtracted the risk score from the health score to dete...

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There are people and stories that can make me feel so proud of being Italian. One of them is Professor Claudio Pellegrini (right in the picture above), whom we honored yesterday at the Consulate in the company of distinguished Italian scientists from Bay Area scientific institutions like Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCSF and the Lawrence Berke...

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Damiano Rizzoni, in qualità di rappresentante di un gruppo di ricercatori della Clinica Medica dell'Università degli Studi di Brescia, sarà premiato il prossimo 20 settembre in occasione del congresso del Council for High Blood Pressure Research per uno studio pubblicato nel 2011 sulla rivista Hypertension sugli effetti di una cospicua riduzione di...

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Sicily's massive production of citrus waste will be used to produce energy and biofuel in a pilot project launched on today called "Energy from citrus fruits".    The project, sponsored by the Citrus District of Sicily, the University of Catania, and a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation, involves the use of a small industrial plant cap...

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"You have to look five years ahead." Giovanni Abbadessa repeats this motto as a mantra and seems to apply it to the many tasks and roles he juggles in his busy, intense, on-the-verge-of-overbooked daily life. His phone rings, beeps or vibrates relentlessly during the two hours we spend in the gorgeous, elegantly and somewhat minimally furnishe...

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Immaginate di creare energia attraverso una semplice pressione esercitata dai piedi su un pavimento. Questa è l'idea rivoluzionaria che due ingegneri sardi, Alessio Calcagni e Simone Mastrogiacomo, hanno sviluppato con Smart Energy Floor.   Un prodotto sviluppato dalla loro giovane startup, Veranu, dopo la laurea in ingegneria elettronica al...

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Mappare i laboratori di Making e Fabbricazione Digitale non è cosa semplice, perchè per la maggior parte nascono spontaneamente, “dal basso”. E non sono poche le piattaforme nate con lo scopo di censirli. Ma queste mappature sono spesso molto sbrigative e poco approfondite, poiché l’obiettivo generale è quello di mappare il più alto numero di labor...

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At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization's next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of Council, and Dr Gianotti's mandate will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years. Council rapidly converged in favour of Dr...

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By Michele Parente   Little Italy is one of San Diego's most lively and ever-changing communities, with new restaurants going in and new buildings going up seemingly every week. Now, its past will be equally as dynamic. A new app being launched today, uses augmented reality (AR) to bring Little Italy's history to life on mobile devices....

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