A woman in Milan was positive for the new coronavirus in November 2019, researchers have found, making her the earliest known patient in Italy to date.
More than 100 Italian academics have written to the government calling for urgent restrictions to avoid thousands more cases and hundred of deaths in Italy from Covid-19.
Brain cells have been found in exceptionally preserved form in the remains of a young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago, an Italian study has revealed.
A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, in what's believed to be the first successful operation of its kind.
The coronavirus was already present in northern Italy in December, more than two months before the first case was detected, a national health institute study of waste water has found.
Italian anthropologists have discovered that a fragment of what they first thought was black rock is actually part of an exploded brain from an unfortunate victim of the volcanic eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Conservationists have successfully created two northern white rhino embryos in a key step towards pulling the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists in Italy said on Wednesday.
The president of Italy's national health research organisation on Wednesday January 2nd said he had been driven to resign due the "anti-scientific" policies of the country's populist government including efforts to undermine confidence in vital vaccinations.
Each year Mount Etna in Sicily slides a little closer to the sea. Researchers believe the effect is caused by gravity – making it more likely that the volcano could collapse altogether, as Dr John Murray of The Open University explains.
Scientists said on Wednesday they had tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new.
When and how seriously will Italy's Mount Etna next erupt? Two volcanologists explain how they're using crystals to learn more about what's going on in the depths of Europe's most active volcano.
Eat spaghetti, cheat death: it might sound too good to be true, but Italian researchers say they’ve cracked a recipe that could help reduce deaths from heart attacks.
Why do people live longer in southern Italy than southern Sweden? A group of Swedes will swap lives with Italians for three months as part of a study which aims to find out.
A fourth gravitational wave has been detected - this time with help from Italy-based equipment - after two black holes collided, sending ripples through the fabric of space and time, researchers said on Wednesday.
The world’s largest all-women expedition to Antarctica will set sail next year, with 80 scientists travelling to the globe's southernmost continent. Italian physicist Elena Joli tells The Local about the goals behind the mission to what she calls "a magical, iconic, wild and remote place".
Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic that is highly effective against bacteria resistant to known antimicrobials, which was found in a soil sample taken in Italy.
As central Italy once again finds itself thrown into turmoil by a series of major, destructive quakes, a seismologist explains why. Isabelle Manighetti works at the Géoazur Laboratory in the Cote d'Azur, which focuses on geoscience research.
Pope Francis urged scientists Monday to be in the vanguard of protecting the environment, in a speech critical of politicians yet to show "concrete will" in implementing global climate agreements.
