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Antonia Gambacorta, an Italian scientist, was awarded the Robert H. Goddard Award given by Nasa for research in science. Gambacorta's research, in particular, is in the area of infrared and microwave sensing techniques as well as inverse methods for recovering temperature and atmospheric constituents and climate feedbacks on greenhouse gases. She r...

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Five dinosaur footprints dating back to the Lower Cretaceous period, or as much as 100 million years ago, were discovered by 88-year-old geologist Professor Vincenzo Colonna. The footprints would have belonged to ankylosaurs, armored dinosaurs, often compared to tanks, and lived about 70 million years ago in the present-day United States. These lar...

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Polignano a Mare is a picturesque town on the Adriatic coast of Apulia, famous for its crystal-clear waters, sea caves and white beaches. Due to its strategic location, it has become a popular tourist destination for both Italian and foreign visitors. The city offers many interesting attractions, including the historical center with its characteris...

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If you're moving to Puglia or considering a move there, here are the 10 best places to live in Puglia according to expats. Our list differs from a typical list of the best places to travel in Puglia. One expat explains, "If you are only here in the warm months, a seaside location may suit you well; but you might be interacting with a more transient...

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Noicattaro is one of the many characteristic villages of Apulia around the area of Bari which surely deserve a visit discovering places that tell about traditions made of history and religious folklore. n particular, Noicattaro is one of the most interesting places to visit especially during Easter Holy Week, characterised by the traditional proces...

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Tom Cruise is shooting flight scenes for Mission: Impossible 8 in Puglia, according to witnesses who saw him board a helicopter in Bari for an unknown destination Tuesday. The Hollywood heart throb, 60, is believed to be filming a scene in which he lands on an aircraft carrier. The action hero arrived in the Puglia capital earlier this week and sev...

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The Petruzzelli Theater in Bari is the fourth-largest opera house in Italy and one of the most important, with La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Regio in Turin, the San Carlo in Naples and the Massimo in Palermo. The project for the theater was presented by the Petruzzelli brothers, Onofrio and Antonio, to their brother-in-law Angelo Mess...

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Name any town in southern Italy to ten Italian-Americans and most of them will cry out with fervor, “That’s where my parents/wife/aunt/uncle/cousin came from!” After Naples and Palermo, the city many Italian-Americans will name Bari, located on the Adriatic Sea in the heel of Puglia. As one of the many southern cities whence emigrated hundreds of t...

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Puglia is full of beautiful places, from the natural splendor of the Gargano peninsula, to the white cottages of Alberobello, the caves of Polignano, the elegance of Lecce and our favorite and best kept secret - the tiny town of peace, piazze, pizze which we wrote about here. Many tourists are drawn to these and, although many fly into Bari, they q...

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Italian scientists have developed a new process that reportedly extends the shelf life of fresh pasta by about a month, an advance they believe can help reduce food waste. The research, published recently in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, developed changes to pasta product packaging, along with the addition of an antimicrobial bacteria call...

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