Last month, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence — long a bastion of tradition — posted a video to its TikTok account featuring Botticelli’s “Spring.” The painting depicts Venus and other mythological figures, and has been gawked at by tourists and studied by academics for centuries. On TikTok, users were treated to a new perspective on this masterpiece...

Dr. Cristiano Huscher has long used robotics and artificial intelligence for surgical procedures at the Policlinico Abano chain of hospitals in Italy. So when six doctors contracted Covid-19 at his hospital in Sardinia two months ago, he once again turned to technology — in this case, UVD Robots — to disinfect the rooms. The robot moves autonomousl...

Una mappa multimediale che promuove l’innovazione del sistema locale pugliese e le eccellenze della regione. Un’iniziativa per favorire una migliore conoscenza a vantaggio di chi voglia viaggiare con destinazione Puglia. Pensato in modo particolare per i bambini e le famiglie di origini pugliesi, con l'intento di rinsaldare i legami e rafforzare il...

Digital healthcare company Empatica announces a pioneering new partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to validate an early warning system for COVID-19 and other respirat...

Before the reopening, designers spent time reimagining the future of dining in Italy. In reality, we have seen little plexiglass in restaurants and the regulations say that masks are not required at your table during consumption. Mask wearing and eating and drinking, you see, don’t go very well together. However, now a group of Italian designers wa...

A young girl in Naples has recovered her hearing thanks to complex surgery involving an implant of a middle ear temporal bone created using 3D-printing technology. The innovative operation - the first in Italy to use 3D printing to custom-design a prosthesis of the missing bone - was carried out by surgeons at the Santobono-Pausillipon pediatric ho...

The event, organized by Miami Scientific Italian Community to promote the spread of the Made in Italy researhers’ culture. Leonardo Da Vinci, symbol of the Italian excellence in creativity and innovation: this is the key in understanding the project Leonardo’s Way: The discovery of modern Italian geniuses in US. The USA appreciates and looks more a...

On March 9, the Italian government has ordered the nation-wide closure of all schools and universities in a bid to slow down the spread of coronavirus. The move has affected the lives of pupils, teachers and principals, and has also had quite an impact on all the non-academic staff working in schools, and, last but not least, on the families.  In a...

Il 6 giugno 2004 il mondo piangeva la morte dell’ex presidente americano Ronald Reagan; quello in carica, George Bush, sulla strada per la Francia, si era fermato a Roma per incontrare Silvio Berlusconi; e in Italia nasceva YouTube. Non si chiamava così, si chiamava Orange Video, un omaggio al frutto simbolo della regione dove lavoravano i tre fond...

Il primo virus proveniente dalla Cina che Cristian Fracassi ha visto in azione nella sua vita non è stato il coronavirus SARS Cov2, ma la delocalizzazione: quella smania di andare a far fare tutto in Cina che aveva contagiato un po' tutti a cavallo del nuovo millennio, "perché costava meno", e che aveva prima messo in crisi e poi chiuso le due picc...