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One morning in July, a girl is dragged away from her homeland, reduced to slavery, and sold by human traffickers. From the wild plateaus of the Caucasus to the Black Sea, from Constantinople to Venice, from Florence to Vinci. When she arrives in Italy, everything has been taken from her – her body, her dreams, her future, her land, and her ancient...

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Starts on Thursday, April 13 · 6pm PDT. Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles 1023 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA. In this talk celebrating Italian Research Day, Italian scientists and scholars from the local research community - Pietro Perona, Martin Monti, Matteo Pellegrini, and Massimo Ciavolella - will discuss their work and how it enables a s...

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Tomb and urn images shed light on the intricacies of Etruscan and Roman civilization at least 2,000 years ago, reviving it for modern times. A 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb in the Italian city of Tarquinia has walls covered in paintings of brightly colored dancers and musicians. A 1st-century funerary urn of a woman who died in nearby Rome depicts a...

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Instinctively, you say: “Galileo!” Upon reflection, you probably remember it was Hans. But what if I told you that the person who invented the telescope was the one and only Leonardo da Vinci? This is the conclusion researchers came to, after consulting documents kept at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan and at the Académie Française, in Paris.  Let’...

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The great Renaissance masters added egg yolk to their oil paints in order to protect their masterpieces against yellowing and humidity and to prevent the formation of cracks during drying, according to research published in Nature Communications and led by Italian scientists. "So far, scientific investigations of paintings have mostly been aimed at...

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Old Masters" such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli and Rembrandt may have used proteins, especially egg yolk, in their oil paintings, according to a new study. Trace quantities of protein residue have long been detected in classic oil paintings, though they were often ascribed to contamination. A new study published Tuesday in the journal Na...

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Want to take home up to $1 million? All you need to do is read four ancient passages, each one only about the length of a tweet—without opening the scrolls they’re written on. This is the challenge posed by a group of classicists, papyrologists and technical experts: the Vesuvius Challenge, to be precise. Led by Brent Seales, a computer scientist a...

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The Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), led by Prof. Antonio Giordano, in collaboration with the Texas Scientific Italian Community (TSIC), led by Prof. Andrea Giuffrida, will present the XVII Conference of Italian Researchers in the World on Saturday April 1st from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM at Temple University of Philadelphia. Forty speakers wil...

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Tuesday April 4 - Friday May 3. @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco, CA. The Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of San Francisco are pleased to present the documentary exhibition LOOKING BEYOND aims to enhance Italian research in the space field and raise international public awareness of multiple uses of satellite tracking te...

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A scientific institute of private, Italian extraction, among the top ranked in the world, and just behind an entirely public one. They are both from Milan and are the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) and the National Cancer Institute (Int).  They ranked 11th and 13th, respectively, in the World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2023 ranking compiled...

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