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The third issue of the magazine Science, Technology and Society is now available. This new special issue forms part of the European project Hereditary and is dedicated to themes of digital health, care relationships and data management. CONTENTS Digital Health: Care Relationships and Data, by Giuseppe Pellegrini Italians and Science in 2026. Health Data: Trust,…
HEREDITARY is transforming the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative and gut microbiome-related diseases through a secure and interoperable framework that integrates multimodal health data while ensuring privacy. The project focuses on neurodegenerative and gut microbiome-related diseases, harmonizing clinical, genomic, and environmental data to unlock previously impossible insights. Specifically, this means bringing together data currently scattered…
The Quantum Effect, SMAC San Marco Art Centre Venice, until November 23, 2025 In recent weeks, the exhibition The Quantum Effect opened in Venice at the new SMAC San Marco Art Centre. Curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Jacqui Davies and produced by Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, the show explores the themes of quantum physics through…
Pellegrini, G., Piccolo, C. & Entradas, M. (2025), University voices: professional communicators and science communication perspectives, Quality & Quantity, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02313-5
In September don’t miss the special issue of Observa’s magazine dedicated to water and natural risks! After the summer break it will be possible to browse the new issue of our magazine which aims to present, as Marco Bresadola recalls in his editorial, “an analysis, from both a sociological and historical point of view, of…
For decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been widely used in many everyday applications such as social media, e-commerce websites, and voice assistants. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has seen its relevance increase significantly and is rapidly becoming an integral part of everyday life. The public relevance of these technologies has further increased since November 2022,…
A year after the previous survey Italians and Artificial Intelligence, how have citizens’ opinions, behaviors and attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence changed? We talk about it through an AI-generated video: Here is the video with the 2023 data: