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The Thirteenth Conference of Italian Researchers in the World will be held on December 1, 2018, at Richland College, Sabine Hall #118, 12800 Abrams Road in Dallas, Texas.  Organized by the Comitato Tricolore per gli Italiani nel Mondo (CTIM) in partnership with COMITES ~ Houston, which represents the Consular District including Arkansas, Louisiana,...

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L’Ambasciata d’Italia a Washington DC ha ospitato il 28 settembre "Atlantis Connect", la prima conferenza internazionale di Atlantis, organizzazione che offre la possibilità a studenti americani in procinto di iniziare un percorso di formazione medica l’opportunità di trascorrere un periodo presso reparti ospedalieri di altri Paesi.  Con più di 400...

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Il futuro è nelle mani di start up italiane che usano capitali esteri. E’ quanto emerso oggi nel corso del workshop ‘Best Scholarship e Open Innovation - How to fully leverage start ups to benefit the italian industrial system’, organizzato da Rds 100% Grandi Successi e da Italian Business & Investment Initiative (IB&II), un'organizzazione indipend...

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Today ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano announced the name of his second mission and logo during an event at ESA’s ESRIN establishment in Italy. Luca will be going ‘Beyond’ when he returns to the International Space Station in 2019 as part of Expedition 60/61, alongside Andrew Morgan of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos.   Luca was the first of...

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La più grande organizzazione mondiale di scienze della Terra e scienze spaziali, composta da oltre 60.000 membri che rappresentano oltre 140 diversi Paesi, onora 33 individui eccezionali. Ogni anno infatti l’American geophysical union (Agu) premia uomini di scienza per i loro eccezionali risultati, contributi e servizio alla comunità di scienze del...

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The first woman to receive a bionic hand with a sense of touch has pet a cat and grabbed objects that she was able to realize were soft, hard, round or square, feeling the same things she did prior to a workplace accident in December 2016 in which she lost her left hand. "I felt an extremely natural feeling that I had not felt for two and a half ye...

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Sono 11 i ricercatori emergenti che secondo la rivista Nature stanno «lasciando il segno» e «hanno il mondo ai loro piedi». Due di questi, scelti tra 500, sono italiani: si tratta di Silvia Marchesan, dell’università di Trieste, arrivata sesta, e Giorgio Vacchiano, dell’università Statale di Milano, undicesimo. Impegnati a studiare come tagliare i...

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The Young-ISSNAF Mentorship Program aims at supporting and guiding junior Italian researchers in North America in their career choices and professional growth by matching mentors and mentees within ISSNAF network. While mentorship is a well-developed practice in most Institutions, the Young-ISSNAF Mentorship Program offers junior faculty an externa...

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They were discovered, 6,000 years after they slept forever. They were entwined as they were back then, their position intimate and untouched by time or nature. Even as skeletons, they remind us of the star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, in the tragedy of a doomed end. But they have their own identity now. They’re known as the ‘Lovers of Valdaro’...

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Naples is a city with a reputation: it has pizza, devil-may-care drivers, and mafia clans known as the Camorra. But in the past few years this southern Italian city has also been fostering a growing community of tech start-ups and app creators. The hope is it will change not just Naples' reputation, but also its fortunes and so reverse a brain drai...

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