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Venice celebrated Italian and international scientific excellence by awarding Italian American scientist Antonio Giordano with the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Giordano, president and founder of the Sbarro Health Research Organization at Temple University in the United States and full professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histo...

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An archaeological site in Central Italy dating back more than 2,500 years is a special place for two Illinois State University researchers. For the past three years, Associate Professor of History Kathryn Jasper and Professor of Art History Lea Cline have been leading the Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project at Valle Gianni.  The excavation is...

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An innovative and ingenious idea was brought to life by an insight from Sergio Gamberini, founder of the leading underwater equipment company, Ocean Reef Group. The Italian engineer, along with his company’s team, has created a new scenario for future sustainable agriculture. The world’s first underwater garden was born in Liguria, on the seabed of...

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Whether you want to honour your family’s heritage or you and your boo simply went on an amaaazing trip to Tuscany and you want to cherish those memories by giving your kiddo a moniker inspired by your vacay, there are plenty of Italian baby names to choose from. (Side note: If you’re picking a name based on where your lil one was conceived, I salut...

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Imagine losing the use of your legs. A car accident, a sudden illness, a life-breaking trauma. The physical pain, the psychological frustration, the anguish of an immobile future. What if you were told that there is a technology that can make you walk again? Not a distant future, but the present. This is the story of Alex Santucci, a 49-year-old of...

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The excavation works for the construction of the high-speed railway between Naples and Bari continue, and the ground yields extraordinary discoveries, as has happened in Avellino, where important archaeological evidence has been unearthed. The exceptional find occurred during the construction of the technical areas serving the excavation front of t...

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In a groundbreaking medical case, doctors in the US and Canada have successfully treated a toddler with a rare genetic disease, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), using a pioneering gene therapy technique before she was born. This treatment, which could not be accessed in the United States due to regulatory constraints, led the family to seek help...

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Researchers describe a newly-observed role for the protein Cyclin Dependent Kinase 9 (CDK9) in regulating DNA repair during cellular division, where errors can become the origin of cancerous tumor growth. Through a process called phosphorylation, the experiment simulated the interaction of CDK9 with the other proteins and genes involved in cell div...

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The next time you’ve had a less-than-great day, or your mood dips, or you listen to two or more Lewis Capaldi songs in a row, apparently, there’s one simple way to make yourself feel better: by eating a bowl of pasta. That’s the word, according to a study conducted by the Behavioral and Brain Lab at the Free University of Languages and Communicatio...

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The man who created our vision of hell can be seen for the first time in more than 700 years after scientists rebuilt his face using his skull. Dante Alighieri became an icon of western literature with his writing, and his magnum opus was the Divine Comedy, which described a journey into heaven, hell, and purgatory. His description of hell is now t...

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