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Remains from nearly 20,000 years ago are allowing scientists to learn more about the development of brains. The 17,000-year-old skull, found in the southern Italian region of Calabria's Grotta del Romito, belonged to a child between 10 and 12 years old. Now scientists are using the skull to recreate a model of a Paleolithic human brain with 3-...

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È il LinkedIn degli amministratori delegati. Una piattaforma d'élite, che però non aiuta a trovare lavoro, ma nuove opportunità di business. E soprattutto, dopo un solo anno d'attività ha già raggiunto i 100 milioni di euro di valutazione.   «Con Opportunity Network vogliamo aiutare le aziende a crescere e svilupparsi. Oggi è essenziale...

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di Antonio Carnevale È italiana la prima, riciclabile e totalmente autosufficiente. Si chiama WaterNest 100 ed è stata progettata dall'architetto romano Giancarlo Zema per l'azienda inglese EcoFloLife. L'obiettivo dichiarato è quello di evitare il consumo di suolo e individuare così delle soluzioni abitative alternative, non dannose per l'amb...

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A track scholarship lured Eugenio Mannucci to the United States, but true love and a job in veterinary medicine is why he stayed. The All-American shot putter from Italy recently started work as a veterinarian at Hermiston's Oregon Trail Veterinary Clinic, where he practices traditional medicine and acupuncture on animals large and small. &nb...

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When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died last month, much was made in the media about his longtime friendship with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While the two oldest justices on the court occupied opposite ends of the political spectrum, they surprised many by being, as Derrick Wang's new opera, "Scalia/Ginsburg," has them sing, "best b...

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Italian and Eritrean researchers on Wednesday found the first footprints of 'homo erectus', a key predecessor of modern man. The footprints, left 800,000 years ago in the sand of a lake that is now part of an Eritrean desert, were found by palaeontologists from Rome's La Sapienza University and the National Museum of Eritrea, at the Aalad-Amo site...

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The Farnesina has boosted its support for research centres, universities and polytechnic institutes seeking to develop internationally, thanks to its RISeT (science and technology information network) http://riset.esteri.it.   The network allows access to information on research and innovation from a network of science attachés, embassies a...

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by Leopoldo Benacchio   The four giants of the CERN in Geneva – which is directed by the Italian scientist Fabiola Gianotti - were back in business yesterday to find out what lies beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the current, hard-earned physical laws.   ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb are the tools that, placed on strategic points of the...

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It is not often that a prestigious scientific periodical like Nature cites Italy as a frontier for research. But when, in an article published on February 3, it came to talk about soft robotics, a new discipline which develops robots privy of rigid structures, it was necessary to cite Italy. Because soft robotics was born thanks to a pool of resea...

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All'angolo destro del ring, 1 metro e 85 cm di altezza, un quintale di peso, mani sensibili e abilità sconosciute, signore e signori, Walkman. Potrebbe sembrarlo ma non si tratta della presentazione pre-combattimento di un pugile americano, né l'elenco delle doti soprannaturali di un wrestler consumato.   Walkman è un robot umanoide frutto d...

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