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Italian archaeologists have discovered an ancient mosaic floor in the living room of a villa that once belonged to Roman emperors. The 2,000-year-old floor was uncovered at the Pausilypon, an imperial villa that was inherited by Octavian Augustus and passed down to subsequent emperors, according to a news release from the University of Naples. The...

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While traveling by air is often faster than by train, these days flying is rife with delays, understaffed airports and airlines, and holiday-hijacking cancellations. Following nearly three years of Covid restrictions, travel is enjoying a robust comeback, but things don’t look exactly as they did before — and not just in the security lines. Some tr...

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Every year, the publication of academic rankings is reported with dismay in the Italian media due to the poor performance of our universities. This year was no exception. The largest Italian university, the Sapienza University of Rome, home to 2021 physics Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi, ranked 171st according to the QS ranking, just below Texas...

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Italy will be a protagonist in the construction of the world's biggest radio telescope, scientific and technological sources said Monday. Italy is in the front row in the construction of the Ska Observatory, the largest radio telescope in the world, whose first phase of construction has a cost estimated at 1.3 billion euros and which on Monday star...

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NIAF is proud to congratulate our friend and longtime supporter Dr. Richard Mollica of Harvard Medical School, who has received a lifetime achievement award for Equity, Social Justice and Advocacy from the Harvard Medical School.NIAF has been working with Dr. Mollica and Harvard Medical School in providing trauma support since the L'Aquila earthqua...

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Inflation and the surge in energy prices will lead Italian consumers to spend less this holiday season as nearly 8 out of 10 Italians (77%) will reduce their Christmas purchases for 2022. The finding was one conclusion that emerges from a new report, "The State of Commerce in Europe 2023," by Signifyd, the leader in protection for digital commerce....

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When: December 15, 2022 at 6:30 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco Federico Faggin shares his fascinating journey through the ages, from being born in war-time Italy to living the American dream as he became the renown physicist, serial entrepreneur, designer of the first microprocessors...

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A new free-access online database maps out more than 1,400 monuments, buildings, street signs and plaques that bear witness to Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime. All over Italy are vestiges of its fascist past, and the Luoghi Fascismo (“Places of Fascism”) mapping project aims to bring the country’s darkest chapter into the mainstream for a reckoni...

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Despite the current uncertain global macroeconomic scenario – characterized by an economic slowdown and rising inflation – Italian food & beverage exports are expected to expand further in the coming years: both among more mature and emerging markets. This is what emerged from the report presented by the Nomisma research institute on Nov. 11 in Mil...

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Man's adventure to the moon begins again. Nasa launched the SLS carrier rocket, the most powerful ever built, with the Orion spacecraft, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center. This is the first mission of the Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon, so far only dummies are on board.  With Artemis 1, NASA will launch the Orion capsule, which...

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