Science
Frankenstein, Frogs and Signor Galvani
In the great city of Bologna, hidden away in a tiny piazza behind the church of San Petronio, is a statue of Galvani, an 18th century physicist. What, you might wonder, has this scientist got to do with Gothic horror stories?
Read MoreItalian Scientists Beat the Speed of Light
Physicists use a lab in Abruzzo to call Albert Einstein's theory into question.
Read MoreItalian Researchers Create Anti-Aging Super Tomato
The new breed boasts three times more of the antioxidant lycopene.
Read MoreItalian Astronaut Prepares for Third Space Voyage
Roberto Vittori will be aboard the US Endeavor in order to study antimatter.
Read MoreE.T. phone Casa...Italian Live from Space!
Did you know that a famous Italian astronaut is watching you…from space?
Read MoreHeat Ray Myth Busted on Italian TV
Italian television audiences were treated to Obama’s heat ray challenge on the popular show MythBusters.
Read MoreThe Genius of Archimedes of Syracuse
Have you heard the one about the Greek boffin who leapt from his bath and ran naked through the streets of antiquity, shouting “Eureka! Eureka!”- “I’ve found it! I’ve found it!”
Read MoreA very special birthday
Life Senator, Nobel Laureate and Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI Rita Levi Montalcini is 101 years old today and we are sure you would like to join Italy Magazine in wishing her “tanti auguri”. She is the oldest living Nobel laureate.
Read MoreItaly in anti-cancer discoveries
A team of researchers from Italy’s National Biomolecular Research Centre in Naples have created a “supertomato” to be called the “maxantia” which, they say, could help prevent prostrate and other cancers...
Read MoreSeaweed may treat Alzheimer's disease
From the negative image of the Italian South generated worldwide by recent events, we move to a positive and hopefully far-reaching discovery made by scientists there: Giovanni Scapagnini, a biochemist at the Medical Faculty of the Università degli studi at Molise, has found that a molecule present in seaweed may help to protect the brain from developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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