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Most books that are good are also useful as a result, and vice versa. Sadly, The Pope of Physics – a biography of the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi that is written in a style as flat and dry as the Mojave – is an exception. Its goodness is difficult to find but its usefulness is immediately apparent. No other biography of Fermi is as auth...

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Il prossimo 21 febbraio dalle 18.30 riprenderà al Consolato generale d’Italia a New York il ciclo “Meet the New Italians of New York”. Il primo appuntamento dell’anno sarà dedicato al mondo della ricerca.Saranno ospiti presso il Consolato Generale illustri ospiti, tra cui Elena Aprile, Ph.D. (Professor, Physics Department, Columbia University), Luc...

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L’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia lancia una call internazionale per selezionare il direttore di Science Gallery Venice, la prima sede italiana di un network internazionale di gallerie che coniugano scienza e arte, la cui apertura fisica nell’area portuale di San Basilio, nel cuore della città, è prevista nel 2019, ma le prime attività inizieranno g...

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Their goal is to design small, portable (or rather, “wearable”), kidney dialysis devices. California-based firm EasyDial Inc. and the University of Naples Federico II have signed an agreement to collaborate on this project. The Italo-American company, founded in California in 2013 by Italian engineer Renato Giordano, is opening a research center in...

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Vespa, best known for its stylish scooters, is trying something new. The Italian company is opening a Boston-based division, called Piaggio Fast Forward, to focus on the future of mobility. Its first creation is Gita, a robot designed to carry cargo, such as groceries, and follow around a pedestrian or cyclist. The vision is that Gita will be able...

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2017 could not start in a better way for Italian scientists in the world. On January 7, three scientists born in Italy and currently working in the United States received a delayed Christmas gift, thanks to Barack Obama. The former American President named 102 scientists and researchers to receive the 2017 PECASE, the Presidential Early Career Awar...

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Google has charged the University of Udine to carry out a scientific study on the consumption reduction in its data centers worldwide. The goal is to raise the efficiency from 5 to 6% and to save around 3 million euro per server. The Google Data Centers all over the world perform Internet researches on the Mountain View search engine. The study tha...

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Ilaria Cinelli, 31 years old, is the head of an international mission in the Utah desert. This is a perfect environment resembling to the one of the “red planet” Mars, where the experts are getting ready to go. Originally from Florence, Ilaria now lives in Ireland where she is studying for a PhD at the university of Galway. As reported by the Itali...

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Produrre olio extravergine di oliva a casa, come se si stesse preparando il caffè, non è un'utopia: una giovane start up calabrese ha ideato il primo robot in grado di trasformare le olive in olio extravergine appena premuto. Si chiama "Revoilution" e, come suggerisce il nome, propone una vera e propria rivoluzione: i suoi obiettivi sono quelli di...

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La 12ma Conferenza dei Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo si terrà il 25 Marzo, 2017 nell’Auditorio del Consolato Generale d’Italia a Houston (TX). È stata organizzata dal COMITES di Houston (rappresentante degli stati Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma) e dal Consolato Generale d’Italia a Houston. La conferenza ospiterà ricercatori Italiani di a...

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