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It was an amphora, not a pot, but archaeologists found a literal jackpot in a dig in northern Italy last week. No word on if there was a rainbow. Hundreds of gold coins dating from Rome's late Imperial era, the 4th or 5th century, were found Friday at a dig in Como, Italy, according to the Italian Ministry of Culture. The ministry shared photos of...

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"Longevity: the Impact of Research, Economics, AI and Robotics to live longer, Better Lives" sarà il focus principale dell’edizione 2018 dell’annuale gala dell’ISSNAF - Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation.  L’evento celebra quest’anno il suo 10 anniversario e avrà luogo il 22 e 23 ottobre, come di consueto, presso l’Ambascia...

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A Knoxville father-son team spent a week in the Alps of Northern Italy recently. Not hiking, not seeing the sights, but securing the latest technology. Dr. Steven Brock, a dentist; his son, Nate Brock, a registered dental assistant, both with Dental Images at 1725 Downtown West Blvd.; and Nate’s wife, Grace Brock, a nurse at UT Medical Center, pack...

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At the age of 96, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza died, famous for having laid the foundations of population genetics and for having demonstrated the scientific groundlessness of the concept of the human race. Born in Genoa on January 25, 1922, he died in Belluno, where he lived. His scientific career had begun in Great Britain, and since...

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A new study on sexual health may have a lot of men running to their favorite Italian restaurant tonight. According to scientists in Greece, olive oil may be better than Viagra when it comes to boosting sexual performance. The study, published by the University of Athens, examined over 600 men and found that an olive oil-rich diet cut the risk of er...

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It is the dream of almost every kid: look up in the sky, jump into your very own spaceship and race among the stars chasing adventures.  I still remember when on April 12, 1981, with family and friends we gathered around in our living room to witness on TV the first launch of the Space Shuttle; I had dreams for days of being one of the astronauts o...

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It was a fitting setting for two married Italian scientists who wanted to become U.S. citizens. At Thursday’s opening of the new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Albuquerque, Milena Veneziani and Gennaro D’Angelo took the oath and became naturalized citizens. They both work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And Thursday’s ceremo...

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Of the ten advanced therapy medicinal products to have been approved in Europe, three – Strimvelis, Zalmoxis and Holoclar – have been developed in Italy, which is rapidly asserting itself as a leading player in the field of cell and gene therapies. Strimvelis was developed at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, a...

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Italy's Alessio Figalli has been awarded the Fields Medal, which is the world's top award for mathematics and is considered a sort of Nobel Prize for the discipline. "This prize gives me so much joy," Figalli told ANSA after the announcement at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro. "It is such a big thing that I'm st...

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Archaeologists have found a burial site with 10 skeletons near Palermo, the capital of the Italian island Sicily. The interesting bit? The skeletons are probably the descendants of Vikings. “Some of the dead buried in the cemetery were undoubtedly members of the elites or the clergy, as the form of some of the graves indicates,” said Sławomir Moźdz...

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