Science and technology in Italy

national space agency of Italy

gravitational wave event

right|thumb|Acqua alta [[floods in Piazza San Marco, November, 2004. The increasing frequency of this type of event caused considerable damage and prompted projects such as MOSE.]]

physical experiment

academy of sciences

automobile industry of Italy

Italian design award established in 1954

Italian national research funding organization

GW151226 was a gravitational wave signal detected by the LIGO observatory on 25 December 2015 local time (26 Dec 2015 UTC). On 15 June 2016, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announced that they had verified the signal, making it the second such signal confirmed, after GW150914, which had been announced four months earlier the same year, and the third gravitational wave signal detected.

overview of science and technology in Italy

thumb|Model 514 "radiovega" table radio (1950s) thumb|WearIT TS 217 bluetooth speaker designed by Michael Young (industrial designer)|Michael Young (2015)

thumb|CDC 6600 supercomputer in Cineca (8 January 1970) thumb|The Fermi (supercomputer)|Fermi IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer in Cineca (10 October 2012) Cineca is a non-profit consortium, made up of 69 Italian universities, 27 national public research centres, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Education (MI), and was established in 1969 in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna.