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Bologna to build MORFEO, the adaptive optics system for the world’s largest optical telescope
The device will be integrated and tested at the Bologna Integration Hall, a joint centre of excellence established by INAF and the University of Bologna, before being installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Art, Technology and Society in the 1960s: Lecture by Lindsay Caplan
Scholar of modern and contemporary art, Lindsay Caplan will give the next lecture in the Brown–University of Bologna Annual Lecture Series.
Times Higher Education Rankings: the University of Bologna First in Italy and 111th in the World
The University pf Bologna ranks first in Italy for the sixth consecutive year and moves up 19 places in the global ranking, rising from 130th to 111th position.
Voices, stories, ideas
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"I always knew that I wanted to study in Europe."
Evrim, an international student from Cyprus, explains why she chose to come and study in Bologna.
From research to society
Heels and flat feet, from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens
A study led by researchers of the University of Bologna analysed for the first time the external three-dimensional shape of the entire heel of Neanderthals, comparing it with that of our species, to show how lifestyle and evolution shaped the skeleton of the foot.
Economic progress and technological innovation: Joel Mokyr receives the University of Bologna’s Sigillum Magnum
In his lecture, the 2025 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences reflected on the challenges posed by economic growth and innovation.
The electric heart
Inside a device that today can be as small as a coin, an ancient question lives on: how is the impulse that sets our cardiac muscle in motion created, how does it travel, and how can it be corrected? The answer begins with Luigi Galvani’s experiments on frogs, passes through the story of Swede Arne Larsson, who fainted as many as 20 times a day, and leads all the way to today’s most advanced wireless pacemakers.