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How do we (mis)inform ourselves through Facebook? Research on PNAS

We search for an "echo" of our own ideas on the "same" webpages, according to a study on the activities of 376 million Facebook users over 5 years: "The problem is the polarization of users"

Transplants in the lagoon: the phanerogams repopulate sea floors

The transplant of phanerograms in the Venetian lagoon has been successful. This is what the preliminary results of the European project SeResto say, co-financed by the European Union through the Life program

Mathematics and big data to combat cholera

Awarded the research by Enrico Bertuzzo. Model applied in real-time during the epidemic in Haiti with the collaboration of Doctors Without Borders

Investors and research for green mortgages

Ca’ Foscari partner of the European Action Plan for the funding of energy efficiency in buildings on a larger scale. Today meeting with EU vice-president Katainen

With the new Cluster the research is 10 times faster

Ca’ Foscari researchers have a new working companion, so fast at calculations that it saves weeks of the scholar’s time with mathematic models

New technology to watch the sea in 3D

'Hunters' of exceptionally high waves found that they are more common than previously assumed. From the research carried out by Ca' Foscari and Ismar-Cnr, a project and patent have been born

Ortles: after 7000 years, the glacier moves

An international team of scientists has discovered the acceleration of movement in the deepest part of the glacier. The research published on The Cryosphere

Understanding cellular metabolism by applying economic theory

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has applied a born and used theory for economic systems to cell metabolism for the first time. The research, published in IEEE Life Sciences Letters

Archaeomusicology, a new way to learn about the ancient world

Ancient songs come to us from the distant past to influence our present through a new discipline that is gaining momentum and opening up new areas of research: Archaeomusicology