Humans behave and act in a way that other humans can recognize as human-like. If humanness has specific features, is it possible to replicate these features on a machine like a robot? Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) tried to answer that question by implementing a...
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Genetic cut and paste at atomic resolution for future therapeutics
Computer simulations and X-ray protein crystallography worked together to reveal insight into the mechanism of gene splicing. Researchers at IIT in Genova, led by Marco De Vivo (De Vivo lab), and EMBL in Grenoble, led by Marco Marcia (Marcia group), have obtained some of the most detailed ever snapshots of...
“STAR ITALIA ACCELERATOR”, more Italian technological enterprises in the USA is born
De Furia: we are the ideal partners for access to the American market for Startups and Innovative SMEs Star Italia Accelerator, the new Accelerator for Startups and Innovative SMEs, 100% under the management of De Furia Group is born with the aim of creating qualified access to the U.S....
Geo-hydrological instability, ENEA develops innovative models to identify areas of propagation and impact of debris flows
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...
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...