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By Michelle Gallardo   The Chicago area hosted a special guest Wednesday as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi toured parts of the city and the suburbs. His first official visit to Chicago, it was the first stop in a four-day tour of the United States focused on trade issues between the U.S. and Italy. First, he took part in a ribbon c...

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La prossima volta che entrate in una tensostruttura, provate ad osservare le travi portanti. Potrebbero essere d'aria. È questa la rivoluzione sviluppata da due esperti dello studio delle forze e della meccanica: Paolo Beccarelli, 31 anni, e Roberto Maffei, 29. Il primo, insegna Architectural Structures all'università di Nottingham dal 2012.  ...

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Europe Unlimited and its partners Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino, Unioncamere Piemonte, and Enterprise Europe Network are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the Italian Venture Forum taking place in Torino, Italy on the 4th of November 2014, which will showcase Italian best innovative companies in ICT, Clea...

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Pizza is the second-highest source of calories for kids ages 2 to 18, researchers have found.They say America's love of pizza has meant about 20 percent of youths eat pizza on any given day.They say the food must be curbed, and made healthier.   On days they eat pizza, children and adolescents take in significantly more calories, fat and sod...

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Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher swore by them for much needed energy. But it seems power naps might be bad for us. Those who steal forty winks in the day are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, according to research. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota pooled data from nine studies with 112,267 participants. They found those who...

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Il ministro degli Affari Esteri, Federica Mogherini, ha espresso "grande soddisfazione" alla notizia della nomina dell'italiana Simonetta Di Pippo quale direttore di UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs).   Di Pippo, astrofisico di fama internazionale, vanta una lunga e brillante carriera, contraddistinta da numerosi incaric...

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"La lotta all'emigrazione delle eccellenze si conduce non solo ricorrendo alle risorse economiche, ma anche garantendo l'alta levatura dell'ambiente scientifico in cui si trovano a operare i giovani ricercatori".   Lo ha detto il Presidente del Senato, Pietro Grasso, aprendo i lavori del Convegno "Il cuore della scienza: le storie degli scie...

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Organizzato, in occasione dell'inizio del nuovo Anno Accademico, dalla Harvard Italian Society e da MITaly in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale d'Italia a Boston. Martedi 22 Settembre - ore 18:30 - Consolato Generale d'Italia - 600 Atlantic Avenue, 17th Floor, Boston - Summer street entrance (Red Line - Fer...

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For thousands of years, Italy has been instrumental in producing some of the world's finest wines including the ubiquitous Pinot Grigio. So, in a technological twist, the Enosis Meraviglia wine research company introduced high-tech Genesis, the adorable wine fermenting robot guaranteed to disrupt the wine industry as we know it. This should be of...

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By Serena Perfetto Technology represents today a powerful tool for challenging the political nature of the chronicles of the past, the one we learn as truth at school. The history of "old Europe" is something that it is usually taken for granted. Unless we have the opportunity to explore it from a different perspective. This is what Diego Calaon i...

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