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  Art Nouveau Week 2025: Celebrating Italy’s Belle Époque The best bread award in Italy this year goes to Sicily Protecting workers from extreme heat: Italy's new workplace safety protocol ORACLE: Italy’s mission to extract oxygen from moon dust The Italian cities where life and work feel most rewarding DOP Tourism: a new model for travelling in It...

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Last week, the European Research Council (ERC)—the EU’s main funding body for basic scientific research—announced the recipients of its 2025 Advanced Grants. These highly competitive awards, totaling €721 million, are aimed at senior researchers who have already made significant contributions to their fields. A total of 281 projects were selected,...

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Wine is big business in Washington state, the second-largest wine producing state in the nation, with an economic impact of more than $10 billion. But how do you keep an industry vibrant, growing and influential decade after decade when challenges such as drought, pest management and wildfires are becoming more disruptive? The answers might lie wit...

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  L'export agroalimentare italiano verso gli USA a rischio tra dazi e dollaro debole Addio a Joseph Giordano, il chirurgo italoamericano che salvò Ronald Reagan Des Moines, al via la trasformazione della villa che ospiterà l’Italian American Cultural Center of Iowa I guelfi Firenze vincono l’Italian Bowl 2025 giocato a Toledo in Ohio ISSNAF apre le...

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Italy is taking impressive strides toward extracting oxygen from lunar soil, thanks to a pioneering initiative by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian company OHB Italia. On June 28, 2025, they finalized a contract to create "ORACLE" (Oxygen Retrieval Asset for Carbothermal Lunar Extraction): a compact device intended to harvest breathable oxyg...

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ISSNAF annually presents the Young Investigator Awards to exceptional early-career Italian researchers and scholars working in the United States or Canada. These awards celebrate groundbreaking and impactful contributions across a range of academic disciplines. ISSNAF is proud to announce the five 2025 Young Investigator Awards and sincerely thanks...

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April 15th, Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, marks the Giornata della Ricerca Italiana nel Mondo (Italian Research Day in the World), an annual global celebration by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. This day honors the achievements of Italian researchers worldwide and strengthens ties between Italy and its diaspor...

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A unified national ecosystem is telling its story—and showing its strength—at the world’s most important biotechnology event. The BIO International Convention has opened in Boston, and with it the Italian Pavilion, organized by the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) together with Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Min...

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Andrea Califano, a world-renowned biomedical engineer and leader in systems biology, has been awarded the Stanley P. Reimann Honor Award, the highest distinction granted by the Fox Chase Cancer Center since its establishment in 1974. The recognition celebrates individuals whose contributions have had a lasting impact on cancer research.  “It is my...

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  Aperti per Voi sotto le Stelle 2025: a nighttime journey through Italian beauty Acquiring citizenship in Italy is not hard just for the Italian Americans Europe’s boldest AI project has a Latin name and an Italian brain behind it Italian parents deal with the problem of a too long summer break in schools When memory fails us: early detection of A...

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