An ENEA research team has developed a new approach to determine the propagation area and intensity of debris flows, a particular type of highly destructive fast landslides and is testing new methods to assess their trigger thresholds based on the water content of overburden. The innovations aimed at drawing more...
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Cells in 3D: a new technique from microscopy
An international study, led by Italian researchers from Istituto di scienze applicate e sistemi intelligenti “E. Caianiello” of Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” and CEINGE – Biotecnologie Avanzate Franco Salvatore, revealed the possibility of identifying, visualizing and measuring in 3D the nucleus of single...
Biological Animal Robots: BABots
The Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (Istc) of the National Research Council of Italy is amongst the research partners of the “Babots” project. Coordinated by the University of Namur, the project promotes an innovative, disruptive technology bases on Biological Animal roBots. BABots are small animals, such as worms or insects,...
Extra virgin olive oil, ENEA studies olives’ traceability
ENEA researchers have developed a method to identify pure extra virgin olive oil through the traceability of the geographical origin of the olives based on the content of elements. The outcomes of the study were published in the open source journal ‘foods’. The study was conducted on thirty-seven samples of...
Italian National Space Day, Massimiliano Galeazzi at the G.W. Carver School
On December 16th , we celebrate the first Italian National Space Day to champion the importance and value of the “space economy” for the recovery and growth of the Italian economy. “This is a celebration of Italian imagination and ingenuity. From Galileo using a telescope to look at the sky...
MDC Names Pamela Fuertes the Miguel B. Fernandez Family School of Global Business, Trade & Transportation Dean
Miami Dade College’s (MDC) prestigious Miguel B. Fernandez Family School of Global Business, Trade & Transportation has named Pamela Fuertes, a proud MDC alumna, as its new dean. Fuertes has serves as executive director of the acclaimed Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program at MDC since 2019. As dean of the...
“EconoMia” dialoghi sull’impresa”
Lunedì 19 dicembre alle ore 22,30 CET su Rete8 nuova puntata di “EconoMia, dialoghi sull’impresa” dedicata al tema La bellezza del saper fare italiano e le PMI Conoscere l’impresa significa anche conoscere il valore del lavoro delle persone che ne fanno parte, il suo legame con il territorio e...
The 2023-2024 work programme of Horizon Europe is out!
The Commission has adopted today the main Horizon Europe work programme 2023-24, with around €13.5 billion to support researchers and innovators in Europe to pursue breakthrough solutions for environmental, energy, digital and geopolitical challenges. As part of the broader EU €95.5 billion research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe, this funding...
A new solid phase of ammonia
Ammonia is one of the most abundant substances in our solar system. In many state-of-the-art laboratories it is possible to produce very intense electric fields that allow to investigate various phenomena by means of diverse chemical-physical techniques. However, the effects produced by electric fields on liquid ammonia have never been studied...
Energy: Renewables, a super laboratory on advanced materials
ENEA will create an advanced virtual laboratory to exploit the full potential of supercomputing and artificial intelligence for advanced materials research applied to renewable energy plants, as part of the European project IEMAP, funded with 4.5 million euro by the MASE as part of the international cooperation initiative Mission Innovation....