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Gravitational Waves Discovery:
Italian Scientists in the Spotlight
I
t took us 100 years to prove all
of Albert Einstein's Theory of
Relativity and the success
comes as a result of the LIGO-
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LOS ANGELES
Nano-Art pioneer,
Alessandro Scali
Page 7
SAN FRANCISCO
The legacy of J.B.
Monaco
Page 9
ALL AROUND ITALY
A day at the
Ortigia market
Page 16
LA BUONA TAVOLA
Pollo alla
maceratese
Page 19
How to find Italy's
Handmade Treasures
PG.4
Virgo international collaboration
that sees both Italy and the U.S as
home bases to the Nobel-Prize-
quality discovery.
Thanks to the LIGO-Virgo
interferometers, scientists have
been able to capture gravitational
waves produced by the interac-
tion of two stellar black holes,
orbiting around one another and
creating a new one.
The revolutionary astrophysi-
cal news was officially released
The world's greatest
film composer
Italy's White Gold:
The "Sweet" Salt of
Cervia
PG. 5
PG. 14
PG. 23
LIFE & PEOPLE
FEATURES
LA VITA ITALIANA
L'EDITORIALE
PG. 2
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Laura Cadonati leads the LIGO data analysis team. LIGO is considered the largest and most ambitious project ever funded by The National Science
Foundation (NSF)(Credit: Rob Felt)
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na cerimonia dal signifi-
cato importante quella
che a Roma ha visto il
battesimo della nuova unità ope-
rativa delle Nazioni Unite. Per la
prima volta, su impulso
dell'Italia, cosa di cui dovremmo
essere estremamente orgogliosi, è
stata formata una task force a
difesa del patrimonio culturale.
Il vanto tutto
italiano dei
'Caschi blu della
cultura'