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What does it take to produce green hydrogen more efficiently and cheaply? Apparently, small ruthenium particles and a solar-powered system for water electrolysis. This is the solution identified by a joint team involving the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology, IIT) of Genoa, and BeDimensional S.p.A. (an IIT spin-off)....

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On the occasion of the Week of Women in Science 2024, the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, hosted the first edition of the Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia International Award at Villa Firenze, honoring Italian women scientists working in the US, in the presence of Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institute of...

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At Niguarda Hospital in Milan, an artificial heart was implanted in a patient who had been waiting several months for a heart transplant. This is the first time such an operation has taken place in Italy. It is an artificial organ equipped with biological valves, which totally replaces the heart with functions very close to the physiological ones....

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Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways — through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now, an international team led by Stanford Medicine researchers has used genetic material from ancient skeletons to assemble a detailed picture of trav...

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Dr. Maddalena Parafati is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacodynamics, University of Florida. Dr. Maddalena Parafati received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Science from the University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro (Italy) in 2010, where she won the Doctoral Research Abroad Program award as Ph.D. Student to conduct her research dis...

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Over 2,340 enterprises (38,000 considering also agricultural processing ones), 21.5 billion euros of direct turnover, 10 billion euros of exports (80% of which are concentrated between Europe and North America, and with a surplus of more than 8 billion), 1 billion euros brought to the Treasury’s coffers (73% coming from excise duties on intermediat...

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A team of Italian researchers working in the United States have made a breakthrough on brain tumour research, according to a study published in the journal Cancer Cell. The team led by Antonio Iavarone, deputy head of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Miami University Medical School, have discovered a piece of "deceit" which the most agg...

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Tommaso Caligari is a 17-year-old student from Novara, Italy. He will be honored in the Senate for an early detection project of his concerning Parkinson's disease. Which is called Parkinson Detector and studies through two cameras placed in front of each other the patient's gait. Analyzing any alterations in the upper limbs that are imperceptible...

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Pizza is a symbol of Italy for 89% of Italians, a farmers' survey published on Tuesday ahead of World Pizza Day Wednesday said. Pizza beats pasta into second place on 88%, with wine well back on 59% and cappuccino on 51%, said the IPSOS research agency survey for farmers group Coldiretti. Pizza, the survey said, "is perceived as a dish of the famil...

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Researchers have discovered a hidden fortification system buried beneath a Bronze Age village in Italy. Known as Villaggio dei Faraglioni, the settlement is located on Ustica, a small island north of Sicily. It has an "orderly urban plan" consisting of huts and narrow roadways built on the island's northern edge, according to a translated statement...

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