The work published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters The international collaboration of the OPERA experiment (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) presented today, during a seminar at the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso LNGS of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN, and in an article published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, the final results of his 5 years of observation [...]
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The Prosecutor Melillo and the Rector Manfredi sign a new agreement between the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federico II University will serve to improve the work of the judicial offices, to prepare information and training interventions and to identify interventions for the social reintegration of prisoners. deal with organizational innovation interventions and [...]
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Memories are made of 'matter', in particular of a molecule similar to DNA, the 'Rna', which, if transferred from one animal to another, allows to transmit the 'engram', the mnemonic trace of the first to the second animal . This is suggested by an experiment conducted with sea snails by David Glanzman at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA) and [...]
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Federico II, in fact, has joined the new SPID accreditation system, activated by Agid, the Agency for Digital Italy, which securely certifies the identity of each user, and allows network access to public services. Administration with a single credential system. With SPID, in fact, every citizen can limit the number of passwords, keys [...]
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Erp Italia, among the first non-profit Collective Systems in Italy in terms of collection of waste from electrical equipment (WEEE) and waste from batteries and accumulators (RPA), is the Italian partner of the Green Alley Award 2018, a European competition for startups dealing with circular economy. The award is aimed at all startups [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) A group of researchers from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - has developed a system capable of producing images of objects shrouded in fog even when it is so dense that human vision cannot penetrate it. The same system is also able to measure the distance of objects [...]
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The collaboration agreement between the Department of Engineering and Architecture (Dia) of the University of Trieste, Fincantieri and Intergraph Italia, part of the Hexagon group, today sanctioned the inauguration of the new integrated naval design laboratory. It is a unique multidisciplinary environment of its kind in Italy. Equipped with 12 latest generation workstations supplied by Fincantieri [...]
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Thanks to a study directed by Emanuele Giurisato of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Development of the University of Siena, in collaboration with the University of Manchester, an important step forward has been made in the knowledge of the mechanisms that regulate the action of macrophages in development of tumors. The research work, published in "Pnas", has in fact discovered [...]
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In the laboratories of CEINGE, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Advanced Biotechnology of Naples, a new hope has been born for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric tumor of the cerebellum, the medulloblastoma-group 3: the researchers have unveiled the "direction" of the metastases and have tested in vivo a new drug capable not only of stopping the [...]
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Leonardo cultivates a scientific citizenship and promotes the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) with the aim of spreading a culture of innovation, destined to inspire new generations and enhance young talents. In light of this commitment, Leonardo chose Cristiano Massaroni, a young computer science graduate of La Sapienza in Rome, as the winner of the [...]
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Our DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid or deoxyribonucleic acid), which by nature is a database of information useful for a correct growth of the organism, could very well host large data cells. As if it were a hard disk to store everything, our DNA will give us the opportunity to make a big leap forward in data storage techniques [...]
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that its Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter's agitated atmosphere this week, successfully completing its 7th scientific orbit. The closest approach was on February 3.500 about XNUMX kilometers above the planet's cloud tops, according to NASA. [...]
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Two small asteroids grazed Earth within a lunar distance this week, a press release from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported. The latest was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona on February 4, and was named Asteroid 2018 CB, estimated between [...]
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A red Tesla sports car is now headed for an orbit adjacent to Mars by the world's most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy, launched yesterday. Elon Musk of SpaceX and founder of Tesla, tweeted about seven hours after take-off: "the orbit of Mars has been exceeded, the rocket continues to go towards the belt of [...]
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A Harvard team in the United States has designed a new type of miniaturized robot that combines micrometric precision with high speed. The new design, reported in Science Robotics, integrates an origami-inspired microfabrication technique with high-performance composite materials that can incorporate flex joints and folding actuators. On [...]
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A new analysis denies popular belief that large earthquakes tend to happen during certain phases of the moon or at certain times of the year. The study, published in Seismological Research Letters today, confirms that popular belief is incorrect. After matching the dates and phases of the moon to 204 earthquakes of magnitude [...]
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Brain cells locate themselves and their friends in space. This is the discovery that earned a Nobel Prize in 2014. Now a new study published in 'Science' delves into the role of the hippocampus and the 'GPS' present in the brain. A 'device' equipped with radar that can also locate other people, [...]
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An observation-study conducted in the Arnas-Civico Complex Operational Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Palermo, directed by Luigi Alio, found that water birth is able to lower the heart rate of the future mother and highlighted further beneficial effects, such as the reduction of pain and greater comfort for the parturient, of childbirth [...]
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The US space company SpaceX yesterday launched a top secret payload into space for the US government, known only by the code name Zuma. The cargo took off at 8 pm on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Northrop Grumman, an American company of [...]
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Paracetamol, a drug widely used in the flu season, may not be indicated during pregnancy. According to the research, which analyzes some studies conducted only on animals, taking paracetamol during pregnancy could compromise the future fertility of female offspring. The work is published in 'Endocrine Connections'. The article examines three distinct rodent studies that [...]
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They navigate inside the body like mini-submarines and are bacteria that can travel in the human body followed in real time by particular sonars. The journal Nature reports and they were made by a group of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) coordinated by Mikhail Shapiro. In the future they could be used as special probiotics for [...]
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The asteroid Bennu and missions directed to Mercury and intended to study the Sun, the completion of the European GPS and the launch of new sentinels of the planet, these are the challenges for 2018. The asteroid Bennu should be reached in August by the NASA probe Osiris-Rex, destined to bring a sample back to Earth in 2023. The [...]
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A 2700-year-old clay seal found during excavations in the wailing wall area confirmed the ancient existence of a Jerusalem governor, as written in the Bible. The find has the size of a small coin, shows the stylized figures of two men facing each other and presents the [...]
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Robots like humans can be afraid and under stress sharpen their wits. The scientific journal Plos One reported an experiment conducted between Great Britain and Italy, at the Federico II University of Naples. By studying how, in the course of evolution, animals have learned to manage fear and to take the right steps [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) It is an innovation system whereby companies also use resources from outside (startups, universities, incubators, etc.) to encourage research and development of unique and cutting-edge materials and construction elements . A survey conducted by Accenture claims that in Italy alone, this model could generate GDP growth of [...]
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At the CNR they developed a method to measure the concentration of chlorine in nerve cells, a chemical element that regulates the inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms of the brain, from whose balance derive cognitive deficits and important pathologies such as autism and epilepsy. A result has been achieved that neurobiology has been pursuing for some time: a non-invasive method for [...]
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What impact have the innovations of the last twenty years had on the Italian economy and society? Most Italians are confident (57,9%), declaring however that the transformations underway have generated positive effects albeit connected to the onset of some small problems. Thus the 2017 Agi-Censis Report on the culture of innovation photographs the "desire for the future" [...]
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A lengthy New York Times interview reveals details of the Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Of the Department of Defense's $ 600 billion annual budget, a whopping $ 22 million has been spent on the aforementioned program. This is how the Pentagon wanted it. For years, the program has been investigating reports of flying objects [...]
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After years of collaborations, this year Mapei has joined the supporters of the La Triennale di Milano Foundation, the Milanese cultural institution dedicated to the organization of exhibitions, conferences and events relating to art, design, architecture, photography and fashion by joining the Amici della Triennale initiative as Corporate Platinum. Becoming Friends of the Triennale means joining a group of companies [...]
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Undersecretary Luigi Bobba for the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, Undersecretary Gioacchino Alfano for the Ministry of Defense and Undersecretary Gabriele Toccafondi for the Ministry of Education, University and Research, signed today, at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, a Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaboration between [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The report that the Swedish International Research Institute SIPRI draws up each year on the military industry is very interesting and indicative of the "growth trend", the "SIPRI Top 100". The data we report refer to the year 2016, those of 2017 are contained in the “Year Book 2017”, for sale online. The Report clearly demonstrates the [...]
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The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of all other parts of the Earth. According to a group of 85 scientists who published the "2017 Arctic Report Card" a report according to which the present decline of the Arctic sea is outside the range of natural variation and is unprecedented in [...]
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Egypt's Minister of Antiquities has announced the discovery of a mummy in one of Luxor's two unexplored tombs. The discovery was made by some Egyptian archaeologists while exploring the two tombs discovered in the 90s by the German archaeologist Frederica Kampp who attributed a dating to them but without ever entering inside. Yes […]
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Thus was born the Navigante Museum - an initiative promoted by the Mu.MA-Galata of Genoa, the Maritime Museum of Cesenatico, the La Nave di Carta della Spezia association and the AMMM-Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums - which brought together museums , public and private. From today the Navigante Museum is online - on the website www.museonavigante.it with the [...]
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Tomorrow in Naples at 11.30 at the Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School there will be the Presentation of the DTT project: an opportunity for Italian and European Research on Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion. Due to its safety characteristics, environmental compatibility and indefinite duration of the fuel, Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion brings together the main efforts of [...]
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In Colleferro, a town south of the capital, the "Palaeodoxodon antiquus" or simply the elephas antiquus, whose age varies between 300 and 350 thousand years, is kept in the municipal museum. A unique find that aroused the interest of the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Dario Franceschini who yesterday wanted to appreciate [...]
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It looks like a galactic snake, the sinuous jet of plasma and energy that comes out of a black hole in the heart of a galaxy 8 billion light years away: its particular structure, helical and inhomogeneous, would be at the origin of the extraordinary luminosity recorded at the end of 2016 with a record high that left [...]
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(by Giovanni Calcerano) In our technological world, batteries are everywhere: telephones, laptops, appliances but also portable devices, toys and industrial applications. And to meet the expectations of today's consumers, these batteries need to be lighter, more powerful and designed to last longer. Currently the most modern technology in this [...]
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A small molecule with great analgesic and anticancer potential is the result of the multidisciplinary work of three departments of the University of Florence, recently published in the “Journal of Medicinal Chemistry”. The research was coordinated by Cristina Nativi (Department of Chemistry) in synergy with Claudiu Supuran (Neurofarba) and Marco Fragai (CERM, Department of Chemistry) and involved [...]
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There are several tsunamis, generated by the rupture of a fault plane, by collapses of volcanic systems or by large submarine landslides triggered by earthquakes. A study by a team of researchers from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), University of Padua and Florence, Royal Holloway University of London, Manchester and Durham University (United Kingdom), [...]
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Rockets to 'seed' the clouds and cause rains "on demand". A group of French university students, through a start-up, is trying to contribute to the fight against malnutrition and hunger caused by water shortages. The initiative is carried out by students of the faculty of engineering of IPSA-Institut polytechnique des sciences avance'es, and by students of biotechnology [...]
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An old-time machine, a latest generation tablet, an electronic board are the elements to build a “vintage” wireless laptop. The idea is from a Piedmontese computer scientist, who will exhibit the unusual PC at maker Faire, from 1 to 3 December in Rome. Giuseppe Portelli, Ph.D. in computer engineering graduated from the Turin Polytechnic, left [...]
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Scientists have succeeded in cultivating Australia's Great Barrier coral and transplanting it to another part of this world heritage gem, a project that gives hope to restore damaged ecosystems around the world. At the end of 2016, researchers from the Australian University of Southern Cross collected large quantities of eggs and [...]
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Link Campus University was established in 1999 in Rome as a subsidiary in Italy of the University of Malta and in September 2011 it was recognized as a non-state university of the Italian University System. Today the headquarters are in via Casale di San Pio V, what was once the summer residence of Pope Pius V. Among the [...]
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In the presence of the Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, and the CEO of FCA, Sergio Marchionne, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Palazzo Chigi for the joint development of research projects and technological applications for the reduction of CO2 emissions in road transport. The two […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The dream of every artist in the world of cinema is to be able to study, or deepen their studies in the United States. Hollywood in the collective imagination is “cinema”, the one then imported all over the world. The School, the Academy, in short, the University of the Universities of the world beyond the objective of a camera, of a [...]
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Did you know that there are 200-ton magnets that can open the door to the energy of the future? On Monday afternoon, the largest magnet ever built in the world in the shape of a D and weighing 200 tons will leave the La Spezia plant where it was built, that of Asg Superconductors, a company of the Malacalza family. [...]
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Pancreatic cancer, given the continuously growing incidence trend, is destined to become the second cause of death in the West over the years. It affects about 13 thousand people every year in Italy, in the last 15 years it has recorded almost a 60% increase in cases. Unfortunately pancreatic cancer is one of the [...]
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The Big [smart] Hack 25 will take place on 26 and 4.0 November at the Tempio di Adriano: an entire weekend of programming dedicated to the themes of Smart City, Energy efficiency, Big data, IoT technology and, in general, innovative technologies. The event - organized by Maker Faire Rome 2017 (1-3 December, Fiera di Roma) in collaboration with [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration intends to accelerate the introduction of treatments involving human cells and tissues, including gene therapy. But the US drug regulating agency is also committed to thwarting clinics that offer dangerous, unproven versions of those treatments. This is what can be seen from the new FDA guidelines, [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Nowadays antibiotics are used like aspirins, we are used to taking them at every sign of illness to be immediately active and in shape. The immune system needs to strengthen itself by fighting bacteria and viruses. After days of illness and after the organism has fought alone and is not [...]
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In Tuscany, innovative technologies for the continuous monitoring of blood sugar. On the occasion of the 2017 World Diabetes Day, the Region announces that it will make them available to patients who will be eligible, among the more than 172.000 people with diabetes present in Tuscany. Glycemic self-control - experts say - is essential for the management of diabetes [...]
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This is really the low-consumption car or if you prefer: The Green Auto par excellence. We bet you haven't even heard of it in the media? Obviously, this patent is too inconvenient. The future of the automobile? It is also in the hands of a 28-year-old engineer from Abruzzo. His name is Davide Patella, an engineer with a passion for cars, [...]
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Attempts to seek the ultimate cure and eradicate cancer are manifold. Scholars think of combined therapies, diet and traditional drugs. Now in the UK at the University of Glasgow a new science is being experimented. Eliminating certain specific amino acids from the diet can prove beneficial in the fight against cancer. A joint team of [...]
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Lemon is not only good, refreshing, thirst-quenching and excellent as a condiment in all our dishes, but countless positive reactions occur in our body when we take it. Umberto Veronesi himself, Scientific Director of the European Institute of Oncology, states: "Lemon is rich in limonoids which have a direct ability to curb certain types of [...]
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“Minimally invasive surgery is difficult. What's new? ”This will be the focus of the 9th Annual Congress of the Roman Academy of Surgery which will take place on 10 and XNUMX November in the auditorium of the Ministry of Health. Professor Massimo Carlini, director of the General Surgery department of the Sant'Eugenio hospital in Rome, interviewed by the Dire agency, in view of this important event [...]
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The primary cause of cancer is food - never eat acidifying foods. In 1931 the German scientist Otto Heinrich Warburg received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the primary cause of cancer. That's right. He found the primary cause of cancer and won the Nobel Prize. Otto found that cancer [...]
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The Italian malaria specialists informed the Italian ministers of Health and of the University and Research on the occasion of the Conference on Health organized by the Italian Presidency of the G7. Italian scholars are sounding the alarm on the global impact of malaria because Italy activates public funding to support Italian research against this devastating disease. Ten years […]
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What will the average Italian look like in 2050? It is not easy to predict, but it will almost certainly not 'see long'. Just look at today's children and adolescents, perpetually absorbed in their devices. They will be the short-sighted adults of tomorrow. A question of evolution of the species, which sees what experts define as 'homo-smartphone' making its way. "Within […]
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Italy is scattered with large and small civil works, evident or half-hidden, built since the beginning of time with skilful mastery by our ancestors; real works of art that, challenging the centuries, the bad weather, the wars and not least the neglect of today's man, have come down to us. On 23 October at the headquarters of [...]
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In social networks, can the action between interacting figures be compared to the same dynamic that exists between choir and protagonist, in Greek theater? Bizarre to approach an element that wants to be, in the intentions of those who create & use it, simply playful or an active tool to connect common interests, like a social network - today there are some for [...]
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Death, the mystery of unsolved mysteries is the question that no man can solve, that is, to know what happens to the body and above all to the soul, for believers of various religions, before and after death. Emblematic are the stories of people who have lived the moments of near-death, death and then returned to life. [...]
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Pregnant, at week 28 of pregnancy, with a very rare severe ocular melanoma, which affects the eye and in pregnant women less than 0,4% of patients with melanoma in pregnancy, the one treated by the City of Health of Turin. That thanks to a delicate surgical intervention, performed by the health teams of different hospitals according to an interdisciplinary approach, [...]
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Beta-glucan is a fiber found in barley flour and would be particularly effective in keeping the heart healthy. Hence the experimentation with a special pasta made from durum wheat semolina and barley flour. The special pasta has been successfully tested on mice. functional call has been shown to stimulate the formation of natural 'by-passes', which [...]
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The Sun, the probable main cause of climate change in progress On 7 September last, a severe geomagnetic storm of level G4 hit our planet on a scale whose maximum value is G5, our magnetic field was hit by a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) coronal mass ejection caused by [...]
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Richard H. Thaler of the University of Chicago, father of behavioral economics. Thaler was awarded for his contributions to behavioral economics with this motivation of the Swedish academics: "he inserted psychologically realistic assumptions in the analyzes of economic decision-making, exploring the consequences of a limited rationality, [...]
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I was able to focus on an aspect that overlooks my emotional sphere, both as a simple human being and as a person who has chosen to make psychology his profession, I refer to the ability to "know how to be". The therapist acquires knowledge and his work tools through a path [...]
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The award ceremony for the tenth edition of the Eni Awards 2017 took place today at the Palazzo del Quirinale, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the President of Eni Emma Marcegaglia and the CEO of Eni Claudio Descalzi. 'importance that scientific research and innovation have for Eni and, in [...]
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The Stockholm Academy of Sciences has announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to three researchers over XNUMX who have earned the prestigious award for the research that led to the development of Cryo-EM cryo electron microscopy, "for the high resolution structural determination of biomolecules ". For chemistry, the research of the three [...]
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A poll last year showed that more than half of American companies said they had suffered a hacker attack. The investigation carried out by Zogby Associates, on behalf of the insurance company HSB, which offers cyber insurance, showed that following the attacks these companies had to spend large sums of money to repair [...]
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The Russian defense industry reported having invented the Alabuga, a new electromagnetic missile that manages to disable all enemy electronics within a range of 2,3 miles. This is the novelty that demonstrates the technological ferment of the armies of modern superpowers. Apparently the Russians are studying new powerful weapons that could prove to be more effective [...]
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Mathematics in everyday life: the satellite navigator The satellite navigator is certainly a very common tool, and it is often assumed that its operation is simply to receive information from satellites that "show the way". In reality, his ability to establish the path to reach any destination is the result [...]
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After Alessandro Volta another Italian Gianni Lisini invented a battery that lasts 20 years. The announcement was made during a trade fair dedicated to the evolution of electronic equipment, the Jotto Fair in Pisa, during which the Vogherese engineer Gianni Lisini, researcher at the Iuss-Eucentre in Pavia, presented a patent (also valid for Europe and the USA) relating to [...]
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