Ten Italian universities have been recognized among the top 200 'young' universities world wide - with one attaining ninth place overall. According to the rankings from Times Higher Education, which judged universities under 50 years old across 48 countries, the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa is the ninth best university in the world. "I'm very happy wit...

The Leaning Tower, the icon of Pisa, is the most famous Italian monument in the world. Together with the Cathedral and Baptistery, the Tower makes up of a complex of works that poet Gabriele D’Annunzio defined as “Miracles,” hence the baptizing of the piazza that hosts them as Piazza dei Miracoli. Of course the city of Pisa’s first and foremost poi...

The British weekly higher education magazine The Times has published their rankings of the world’s top universities with less than 5,000 students: Italy and France dominate, each conquering three positions among the top ten. The USA and South Korea also make the podium. Pisa’s Normale and Sant’Anna schools, as well as the Free University of Bolzano...

I've done almost 160 interviews in this exciting adventure discovering wonderful people who have described us so many different aspects of how Italy and the United States perfectly match together. I am always happy and glad when I meet young Italians born in Italy who had their success in the United States. They are the proof that Italy needs more...

The Tower of Pisa is one of Italy’s – and the world’s – most famous monuments. What appears to us today as admirable architectural consistency (one of the reasons it became a major icon of Italy and medieval Europe) was actually built in the course of two centuries: the first four orders (or ‘floors’) in just five years, from 1173 to 1178. These we...

Piante medicinali, antichissimi erbari e opere d'arte contemporanea. Sono questi alcuni degli ingredienti di "Wild Medicine: Healing Plants Around the World, Featuring The Italian Renaissance Garden", una straordinaria esposizione appena inaugurata al New York Botanical Garden e di cui fa parte anche la mostra "The Reinassance Herbal", curata dalla...

Di Cinzia Colosimo Percepire il tatto tramite una protesi bionica, distinguere una superficie liscia da una ruvida in tempo reale e in modo simile ad un normale stimolo sensoriale.   È più vicino adesso questo obiettivo ambizioso che apre scenari incredibili per le persone amputate: il risultato viene infatti da un gruppo congiunto di ricer...

L'innovazione 'made in Italy' trova investitori americani. E' la storia, tutta italiana, di Sem+, una tecnologia innovativa nata dall'idea di tre ricercatori - Alessandro Levi, Silvano Furlan e Matteo Piovanelli - che si sono conosciti durante il dottorato presso il centro di Micro-Bio Robotica dell'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) costituito...

E' italiano il primo brevetto al mondo di un robot flessibile, dalla forma che ricorda quella di un serpente: le due strutture "intrecciate" che lo costituiscono gli permettono di allungarsi e curvarsi evitando con precisione ogni ostacolo. Per questo il robot può essere utilizzato in medicina, per raggiungere un bersaglio preciso nel corpo umano s...

The Italian Environmental Fund (FAI) opens Italy's most hidden wonders for FAI Spring Days March 22nd-23rd, offering guided visits of 750 places of art all up and down the Peninsula. We're talking about sites that are almost never open to the public, including Rome's Mausoleum of Augustus, the interior of Teatro Marcello, and the Forum of Augu...