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Identifying innovative diagnostic methods for early detection of Alzheimer's disease is the goal of the project MENTAL, which will be achieved thanks to donations to ENEA from taxpayers.

How is circular economy – a concept increasingly used and sometimes even misused- perceived? What are its most important actions? What priority should be given to actions such as 'recycle', 'recover', 'redesign' towards achieving a circular economy? These and other questions are part of the international "imagine circularity" survey, online until April 19, which aims at understanding how people perceive and what is the vision of the circular economy at a global level and at improving its knowledge and dissemination

The 18th winter campaign of the National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA), funded by the Ministry of University and Research and managed by ENEA for logistics and the CNR for scientific coordination, takes off. “Usually, the beginning of the winter season on the Antarctic plateau marks the end of the summer expedition; this year, for the first time, the research work will continue until the end of March in the Ross Sea aboard the icebreaker Laura Bassi", said expedition leader Alberto della Rovere of ENEA, who coordinates the activities of the Mario Zucchelli Station, from where the last researchers and technicians will reach the US base of McMurdo before continuing on to New Zealand and then to Italy.

At the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica, the first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed. The campaign is an unprecedented effort in paleoclimatology studies, as its purpose is to go back in time by 1.5 million years to reveal invaluable information on temperature and on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the past.

HARPa, an app to easily estimate consumption of old domestic appliances for heating and producing hot water and learn where they fit on the energy label, is one of the outcomes of the European project HARP

Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory molecules from edible products like tomatoes and yeast to manufacture drugs to treat eye conditions and be employed in the nutraceutical and cosmetic fields as well.