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The Texas Scientific Italian Community (TSIC), Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), in collaboration with Temple University, College of Science and Technology, invite you to submit an abstract to the XVII Conference of Italian Researchers in the World that will be held on: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 starting at 9:30am – 3:00pm (EST) atThe Cha...

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PST. Italian Innovation and Culture Hub INNOV.IT 710 Sansome St San Francisco, CA 94101. You are cordially invited to attend our next event Journey to Mars: Fireside Chat with Roberto Carlino. You will hear about Roberto's experience with the recent NASA HERA mission. You can read more about the mission...

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Between January and June 2020, as COVID-19 was sweeping the world, an amateur astronomer living in the province of Brindisi in southern Italy made a series of exhilarating discoveries. Giuseppe Donatiello was poring over images made public by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which had scanned the southern sky from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obser...

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ENZO SUMA WAS STROLLING ON a crescent-shaped sandy beach in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, when his eye fell on a strange-looking object in the sand a few feet away. It was winter 2018, and Suma, a 40-year-old naturalist and guide, had taken part in several beach clean-ups before; he was no stranger to the waste that accumulates on Mediterranean...

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Promoting networking and cultural, scientific, academic, and technological cooperation between the US scientific community and public and private organizations in Italy. This is the goal of ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation), a nonprofit organization that connects more than 3,000 scholars, researchers, and technolo...

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Half a millennium after Leonardo da Vinci explained gravity, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) discovered that his understanding of the phenomenon – while not entirely accurate – was centuries ahead of his time. Despite limited tools, the great Italian thinker displayed ingenious problem-solving. In an article just publi...

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The new episode of the show is a conversation on neuroscience and marketing. In dialogue with Marco Baldocchi (Neuromarketing research director at the Italian Association of Applied Neurosciences, author, public speaker, and visionary entrepreneur) we discussed the impact of emotions on our buying decisions, the role of neurosciences in branding an...

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Age catches up with us all eventually, but in some people the right genes can make that chase into our twilight years a relatively leisurely one. A few years ago Italian researchers discovered something special about people who live well into their 90s and beyond: they commonly have a version of a gene called BPIFB4 that protects against cardiovasc...

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Basil is used to treat worm infections, warts, intestinal gas, kidney problems, fluid retention, and stomach spasms. Insect and snake bites are also treated with it. Basil is sometimes used by women before and after childbirth to encourage blood flow and to begin the flow of breast milk. The Italian super-power herb is so popular in the U.S. that H...

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FoodSensor is a portable laser device based on a traffic light system developed at ENEA to rapidly detect food adulteration “Safe, simple to use even by non-expert personnel, it can be carried in a hand case. To detect food adulteration, is enough to put a small sample into the device without pre-treatment or chemical reagents”, explained Luca Fior...

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