IX Symposium February 4-8, 2025 The annual professional and academic meeting held in Boca Raton in winter (the best time to be in Florida), returns. Guests share their research about Italy seen as a fluid space where identities cross and new encounters are shaped. A symposium (from syn: together) because speakers...
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Taranto Technopole Foundation: Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli (Poliba) appointed President
A decision by the Ministries of Enterprise and Made in Italy, University and Research, and Economy. “It will be a national and international reference point for research and innovation for sustainable development.” Professor Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, a professor of economic management engineering at the Politecnico di Bari and distinguished member...
Dr. Alessia Fornoni named Miller School Assistant Dean for Research Training and Development
The internationally celebrated kidney disease researcher is also an award-winning mentor and advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration. At the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, interdisciplinary collaboration spurs discovery.To advance this mission and accelerate research engagement among current and future physician-scientists, Alessia Fornoni, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, has been...
Chiara Bartolozzi from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and international research team charts the course for scalable neuromorphic computing systems
A review article about the future of neuromorphic computing by a team of 23 researchers, including Chiara Bartolozzi from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) was published last week in Nature. The article, titled “Neuromorphic Computing at Scale,” examines the state of neuromorphic technology and presents a strategy for building large-scale...
Telescoping from the moon: UM astrophysicist, Massimiliano Galeazzi collaborated on an X-ray telescope headed to Earth’s nearest celestial body
University of Miami astrophysicist, Massimiliano Galeazzi collaborated on an X-ray telescope headed to Earth’s nearest celestial body, where the instrument will capture the first-ever images of X-rays emanating from the edges of our planet’s vast magnetosphere. Before Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind,” NASA staged a series of...
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Selected as U.S. Site for Neuralink Clinical Trial
Landmark study aims to enable paralyzed patients to use their own thoughts to control external devices through a brain-computer interface The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have been selected to become the second U.S. –...
DYNAMO: a new generation of scientists and hybrid nanopore technologies
A training network among 9 world-leading academic and industrial groups in Europe and coordinated by IIT, to educate 11 PhD students coming from all over the world in the areas of nanoscience, photonics and nanotechnology Their common goal is developing a next-generation technology able to explore the molecular structures of...
Historic Drilling Campaign Reaches more than 1.2-Million-Year-Old Ice
At the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica, a research team representing twelve scientific institutions from ten European nations has just achieved a historic milestone for climate science. As part of the European-funded Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, the team successfully concluded a decisive drilling campaign, reaching the...
Indoor air pollution harmful even at low concentrations of particulate matter
A study conducted by ENEA and the CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome and Milano-Bicocca University as part of the project VIEPI, funded by Inail and published in the journal Environmental Pollution, found that in urban areas indoor air conditions may...
Space: Nuclear, from ENEA and ASI a Moon Energy Hub
Producing electricity on the lunar surface via small nuclear-powered plants. This is the goal of the all-Italian SELENE project (Lunar Energy System with Nuclear Energy) funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and led by ENEA, in collaboration with the Energy Department at the Politecnico di Milano and Thales Alenia...