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by Latarsha Gatlin   Johns Hopkins University Professor Andrea Prosperetti, an authority in the area of fluid dynamics and underwater acoustics, has been awarded the 2014 EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Prize by the Council of the European Mechanics Society.   Prosperetti, the Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engin...

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When I was 21, back in the mid-1990s, I remember going to a farewell party for a young woman who was leaving Italy to work toward a Ph.D. in Canada. After a few years of struggling with the nepotism and lack of opportunities in Italian academia, she professed her wish to never come back to Italy “except for holidays.” That was the first time I witn...

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Le energie rinnovabili saranno il nostro futuro? Molti lo pensano, altri lo sperano, altri ancora le relegano in un angolo. Taluni paesi dell'Europa invece, ci credono così arditamente che puntano tutto su di esse. Il grande vantaggio, ormai risaputo, sta nel fatto che non immettono nell'aria sostanze inquinanti, al contrario dei combustibili fossi...

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Italy will soon have its own silicon valley. This will be a special silicon valley, a "green" one, located in the Umbria region, near Terni. The Italian group Italeaf is currently negotiating a "strategic master plan" with the municipality of Narni to redevelop the whole industrial area of Nera Montoro with the technical support of the Architecture...

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Uno strumento crossmediale, un software in continuo aggiornamento e il Piano Nobile del Palazzo del Quirinale, come non l'avete mai visto. Da visitare "in un clic". Si tratta di Quirinale 3D VR, un progetto di ricostruzione in 3D realizzato da una giovane azienda della Basilicata, Digital Lighthouse Srl, che lo ha donato al segretariato generale de...

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On July 15, for the first time, South African Airways completed a flight using a biofuel made from tobacco. The one-way flight carried 300 passengers from Johannesburg to Cape Town using 6,300 liters of biofuel.   Thanks to the research of the biochemists of Sunchem, the Italian enterprise who has developed a process to extract biofuel from...

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Within the framework of the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Government of the Italian Republic and Government of the United States of America, the Italian Party may consider granting an annual special financial contribution, within the limits of the available financial resources, to significant bilateral research p...

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A blood test developed in Italy could help predicting and preventing Alzheimer's Disease (AD), local researchers said on Monday.   Researchers at the Catholic University in Rome and at the Fatebenefratelli hospitals of Rome and Brescia, who conducted the study, said in a statement that free copper circulating in the blood can have a toxic ef...

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Georgetown University, Washington D.C. - Saturday October 24th 2015. Keynote Speaker: Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College. The Department of Italian at Georgetown University together with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. would like to invite you to our conference titled Italian Language a...

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L'Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation bandisce l'edizione 2012 dell'ISSNAF Young Investigator Award e del Paola Campese Award for Research on Leukemias. Scopo dei bandi è premiare i giovani ricercatori italiani che lavorano in Nord America, il cui impegno nella propria attività di studio risulti innovativo, di rilievo e ono...

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