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Major new finds have been unveiled for Friday's 270th anniversary of the discovery of the first remains of the ancient city of Pompeii buried by ash and rock following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The local archaeological authorities have marked the occasion by presenting major new excavations in the Regio V area launched under the auspices o...

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Inhibition of the oncogenic kinase AKT, a key protein governing the cell cycle, was found to arrest cancer cell proliferation and triggered their programmed death by apoptosis. The study, published today in Oncogene, represents significant progress in the clinical translation of previous basic scientific discoveries. “Understanding the molecular fe...

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Robby Pepper can answer questions in Italian, English and German. Billed as Italy’s first robot concierge, the humanoid will be deployed all season at a hotel on the popular Lake Garda to help relieve the desk staff of simple, repetitive questions. During one of Robby’s first shifts, Mihail Slanina, a guest from Moldova, congratulated the robot on...

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L’associazione dei Professionisti Italiani a Boston (Pib) in collaborazione con MITaly – l’associazione degli italiani al Massachusetts Institute of Technology - organizza il 12 aprile “The beauty of Science – exploring the world through visualization and artificial intelligence” (La bellezza della scienza: esplorare il mondo attraverso la visualiz...

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Monday, April 16, 2018 at 6:30 pm. Organized by IIC Los Angeles in collaboration with UC Irvine and ISSNAF. Free entrance. Location: IIC Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 - USA. Emiliana Borrelli, Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at UC Irvine School of Medicine, will discuss her work and research activity, whic...

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Monday, April 16, 2018. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Book Now The James Webb Space Telescope - New Horizons in Science and Technology is a presentation by Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo that provides an overview of the project, the scientific and technological challeng...

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Italy is quickly establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with in the circular economy, as evidenced by a new report from Enel, an Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas. The report, 100 Italian Circular Economy Stories, gives a voice to a cutting-edge, sustainable and competitive Italy, sharing the stories o...

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Il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI), nella prospettiva del rinnovo della Joint Declaration Italia Usa per la cooperazione scientifica e tecnologica per il triennio 2019-2021, ha pubblicato on-line un bando per la raccolta di progetti di ricerca bilaterale da ammettere alla richiesta di finanziamento. Il rinn...

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Fabbricare dispositivi elettronici sempre più piccoli, come i transistor, definendo materiali e strutture atomo per atomo, è possibile grazie a metodi di ingegneria quantistica. Lo dimostra una ricerca pubblicata su “Nature Nanotechnology” e condotta dal dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione dell’Università di Pisa, l’Università di Texas a D...

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Nella seduta del 28 febbraio u.s. il Comitato Interministeriale per la Programmazione Economica ha approvato l’Addendum al Piano Operativo Cultura e Turismo che prevede lo stanziamento, a valere sul Fondo Sviluppo e Coesione-FSC 2014-2020, di ulteriori 740 milioni di euro suddivisi in 4 Obiettivi strategici. L’Obiettivo strategico 1, che vale oltre...

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