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Launch of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) by NASA is scheduled for the end of November, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the Vandenberg base in California. With this probe, NASA will be experimentally testing, for the first…

A new study by Politecnico di Milano into the thermo-catalytic activation of CO2 is the cover story of the latest edition of the Catalysis Science and Technology journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry.The article explains the work…

The Horizon 2020 project SISCODE (Society in Innovation and Science through CO-Design) has now ended. This project saw the involvement of 17 inter-sector partners from around Europe coordinated by the Department of Design at the…

A new study by Politecnico di Milano into the thermo-catalytic activation of CO2 is the cover story of the latest edition of the Catalysis Science and Technology journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry.The article explains the work…

Giacomo Ghiringhelli has been elected Honorary Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the most prestigious Italian cultural academy of scientists and humanists, for the Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class.Professor…

An important opportunity for a Politecnico di Milano PhD student: Laura Pernigoni, a young researcher currently completing a PhD at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, has been awarded one of the Fulbright Visiting Student…

Following last year's victory, the Politecnico di Milano also won the second edition of the "Leonardo Drone Contest. An Open Innovation Challenge”, a competition launched by Leonardo, in collaboration with six Italian universities, to…

The Federal University of Paranà (UFPR, Brasil) conferred Professor Carlo Vezzoli (Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano) an Honorary Doctorate for its contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the field of Design for…

Professor Pierangelo Metrangolo of the Giulio Natta Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering has been awarded the 2021 Giorgio Modena Medal.The award ceremony took place during the XXVII National Congress of the Italian…

A study carried out by Professor Carlo S. Casari and his team at the Micro and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) of the Department of Energy has been published in the American journal The Journal of Physical Chemistry C as the…