First experimental flights for an Air Force aircraft powered by a fuel mixture containing up to 25% biofuel The tests were conducted at the Aeronautical and Space Experimentation Division (DASAS) of Pratica di Mare on an AMX fighter by pilots and specialized personnel of the Air Force, belonging to the Experimental Flight Department [...]
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The President of the National Research Council (CNR), Maria Chiara Carrozza, and the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, today signed the renewal of the Framework Agreement as part of joint research and technological innovation activities for the duration of three years plus two optional. The agreement provides for the development of projects and initiatives to address the [...]
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The first Italian scientific suborbital mission will be presented in Rome on Thursday in Rome at the headquarters of the Air Force General Staff. Sixty years after the first suborbital flight carried out by the Mercury capsule, the joint initiative between [...]
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The agreements define the methods of collaboration, both in the industrial and scientific and technological research fields, in the Commercial Spaceflight sector. Two important collaboration agreements were signed this morning in Rome, at the Aviator's House, aimed at enhancing knowledge and the skills of the Air Force in the aerospace sector and in particular [...]
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Computerized the access keys of the Umberto Nobile Archive kept at the Historical Museum of the Military Air Force in Vigna di Valle. From today it will be possible, in real time, to carry out searches within the archival complex. This is the first result of the enhancement and fruition project that the National Research Council is conducting on the papers of [...]
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After about twenty years, the Air Force aircraft return to Antarctica to support the 2019/2020 Italian research campaign of the National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). In fact, a collaboration agreement was signed in recent days between the Armed Force and ENEA (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Economic Development [...]
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Collaboration continues with national research institutions, universities and industries aimed at developing the technology of innovative small satellite launchers for aerial platforms. Tuesday 17 September at the Casa dell'Aviatore in Rome, in the presence of the President of the National Research Council (CNR), Prof. Massimo Inguscio, and the Head of [...]
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The collaboration aimed at developing the technology of innovative small satellite launchers for aerial platforms continues. Tuesday 17 September at 16:00, in the "Baracca" room of the Aviator's House, in the presence of the President of the National Research Council (CNR), Prof. Massimo Inguscio, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General of Squadra Aerea Alberto [...]
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Sen. Gian Marco Centinaio, Minister of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies will participate today in Rome at the event “Beyond the genome. New opportunities and challenges for the durum wheat supply chain ". The event, organized on the occasion of the recent publication in Nature Genetics of the "genome sequence of durum wheat" by Cnr, Crea and the University of [...]
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A long-term collaboration aimed at the establishment of four research centers of excellence in the South for sustainable environmental and economic development in Italy and in the world The President of the National Research Council (CNR), Massimo Inguscio, and the CEO of Eni , Claudio Descalzi, following up on the meeting last May, signed today [...]
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Launch small satellites into space directly from airplanes in flight: this is the subject of the letter of intent signed today in Rome between the Air Force, the CNR (National Research Council, the University of Rome "Sapienza", CIRA (Centro Italian Aerospace Research) and SITAEL SpA, an Italian company specialized in the production of small-sized satellites, whose objective [...]
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Leonardo participates in the European Researchers' Night, the initiative promoted by the European Commission and dedicated to the world of science and research which, on September 28th, will involve a large audience of visitors in more than one hundred Italian cities. The event, which provides free access to the public in the research facilities, offers many events for everyone, [...]
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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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